Bluebirds Complete Regular Season with Dominating Win |
| Twitter Photo. Five Highlands volleyball seniors and one manager celebrated Senior Night on Thursday. They are, from left, Ava Hockney, Rylee Kirschenbaum, manager Navaeh Votel, Audrey graves, Casey Dunn and Brooke Biltz. |
The five Highlands seniors had one last show at the home gym in the final regular season game of the year.
The Bluebirds (26-7 overall) took care of business like usual with a 3-0 (25-13, 25-21, 25-19) win over the Conner Lady Cougars. Highlands has won all three meetings against Conner this year and moved to 13-5 against 9th Region opponents.
"(We just) wanted to get more into a rhythm," said Katelyn Sallee, Highlands Head Coach. "Coming out of our Louisville weekend, we just felt out of sync. At Cake (Classic), we got kind of back in rhythm. Then this week, even more so. We just wanted to build some confidence off the things we've done well the majority of the season making sure we're keying on those things."
"(We just) wanted to get more into a rhythm," said Katelyn Sallee, Highlands Head Coach. "Coming out of our Louisville weekend, we just felt out of sync. At Cake (Classic), we got kind of back in rhythm. Then this week, even more so. We just wanted to build some confidence off the things we've done well the majority of the season making sure we're keying on those things."
Three seniors are three-year starters in outside hitter Casey Dunn, middle blocker Ava Hockney and setter Audrey Graves. Dunn had 12 kills, two aces and 15 digs with Graves recording the team's 36 assists to go with three digs and two aces. Hockney had 11 kills and a solo block.
Senior defensive specialists Rylee Kirschenbaum and Brooke Biltz have set them and the other teammates up well all year. Kirschenbaum had 10 digs and Biltz had seven. In three seasons, the five seniors have been a part of 76 wins.
"This definitely is a good lead into the postseason because we're really going to need that to take on the teams that we're going to face," Kirschenbaum said. "It was a very emotional night, but we powered through. We dominated pretty much through the whole game. There wasn't really a time where we lost that."
Highlands recorded a .255 hitting percentage connecting on 36 kills on 98 attempts with 11 errors. The Bluebirds also had nine aces on 72 attempts and five errors, 44 digs, three solo blocks, four assisted blocks, four blocking errors, four general ball-hitting errors and six pass reception errors.
Sophomore CC Shick had six kills, three solo blocks and one assisted block for Highlands. Junior Laura Winkler had four kills and sophomore Madison Clore had five digs.
Highlands recorded a .255 hitting percentage connecting on 36 kills on 98 attempts with 11 errors. The Bluebirds also had nine aces on 72 attempts and five errors, 44 digs, three solo blocks, four assisted blocks, four blocking errors, four general ball-hitting errors and six pass reception errors.
Sophomore CC Shick had six kills, three solo blocks and one assisted block for Highlands. Junior Laura Winkler had four kills and sophomore Madison Clore had five digs.
The 36th District Tournament at Bellevue starts Monday. Highlands will face either host Bellevue or Newport at 7:30 p.m.
Football, Freshman:
Highlands 42, Boone County 0:
The Bluebirds moved to 8-0 with another convincing victory.
Seth Valliere had two punt returns for a touchdown for the Bluebirds. Dawson Hosea had two rushing touchdowns each and Max Shultz added another one. The other touchdown came on a touchdown pass by Jack Hendrix to Ryan DeBurger.
Highlands plays at Ryle on Thursday. Game time is 6 p.m.
Football, Freshman:
Highlands 42, Boone County 0:
The Bluebirds moved to 8-0 with another convincing victory.
Seth Valliere had two punt returns for a touchdown for the Bluebirds. Dawson Hosea had two rushing touchdowns each and Max Shultz added another one. The other touchdown came on a touchdown pass by Jack Hendrix to Ryan DeBurger.
Highlands plays at Ryle on Thursday. Game time is 6 p.m.
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