Election Night Landslides and Nailbiters – On the Volleyball Court
Schulenburg, RT-C, Fayetteville All Advance to Third Round
Three Fayette County volleyball teams are marching into the third round of the playoffs (Schulenburg, Round Top-Carmine and Fayetteville), while Flatonia’s season came to an end. Here are re-caps of all postseason action:
The Schulenburg volleyball team had no trouble sweeping past Granger in a 2A area round playoff match Tuesday in Caldwell.
The Lady Horns won 25-16, 25-12, 25-17 to improve their record to 23-8.
Senior Erica Otto led the Lady Horns in kills with 18. Jordan Sommer had seven and Meredith Magliolo had four.
Sommer led in aces with four and Otto, Julie Guentert and Morgan Marburger all had three each.
Guentert led in digs with 17 and Sommer had 12. Marburger had 10 digs, and Otto and Regan Lux each had eight.
The Schulenburg girls now advance to the regional quarterfinals where they will play Shiner Thursday, November 5 at 7 p.m. in Yoakum. Schulenburg and Shiner were in the same district and have played twice already with Schulenburg sweeping both matches.
The Round Top-Carmine volleyball team had no trouble knocking off Waelder Tuesday in an area round playoff match in Smithville. The Cubettes won 25-9, 25-11, 25-19 and now advance to the 1A regional quarterfinals where they will face Nordheim, which swept Richards in their area round match.
The winner of the RT-C versus Nordheim match advances to face the San Isidro vs. D ‘Hanis winner in the regional semifinals next week.
The Flatonia volleyball team saw its season come to an end Tuesday in a five-set nailbiter to Thrall in Fayetteville.
Thrall won the first set 25-17 before Flatonia bounced back to win the second and third sets 26-24 and 25-19, but then Thrall won the fourth set 25-22 and grabbed the final set 15-11.
The loss ends the Lady Bulldogs season with a 17-10 overall record.
Thrall now advances to play Weimar, which swept Snook in their playoff match.
Flatonia had advanced to Tuesday’s area round match with a sweep of Bloomington last week. In that match, Karli Siptak had 13 kills, Ellie Fike had 10 kills and Carly Bonds had eight. Ali Janecka had 14 digs against Bloomington and Mollie Mica had 10. Mica had 34 assists.
On Monday night the Fayetteville volleyball team defeated Prairie Lea 25-10, 25-10, 25-15 in a 1A area round match in Flatonia.
Brooklyn Jaeger led the Lady Lions in kills with 17 and Kayme Schley had nine. Rylie Dyer and Peyton Jurecka each had two kills.
Alley Keen and Jaeger each had seven aces and Mattie Konvicka had five.
Jaeger had 11 digs and Keen had six. Landry Wied had 27 assists.
Fayetteville now advances to the regional quarterfinals where they will play Austwell-Tivoli. Austwell-Tivoli beat Buckholts in four sets Monday to advance.