Thursday, August 31, 2017

7:00 PM

Game Recap

The #8 Wildcats opened up the season with a 3-0 sweep of the visiting #10 Grand Island Islanders Thursday night at Millard West High School.

Millard West got off to a fast start leading 10-2 and used the momentum to finish in a dominating 25-7 first game.

The second set saw Grand Island fire back taking the lead midway thru the the game leading 13-9. Junior Setter Bree Green helped catch the Wildcats up to tie the set at 14-14 on a serving run. A late surge and kills by Junior OH, Jordan McCormick and Senior OH, Ashley Bush gave the Wildcats the hard fought win 25-23.

Again the Wildcats broke out of the gate early in the 3rd set to cruise to a 25-11 set win and take the match 3-0 over the Islanders.

Millard West was lead by a balanced attack with Junior MB, Bailey Wilson posting 10 kills.
The Wildcats hit a blistering .403 on the night will staying in system by passing a 2.20.

– JV Wildcats –
The Wildcats started slow as many of the JV squad were playing in their first high school match. After getting more comfortable Millard West rallied for a 18-25, 25-19, 15-9 win over Grand Island.

– Reserve Wildcats –
The Reserve team opened up their 2017 campaign with a sweep over the visiting Islanders. Scores of the match were 25-7, 25-21.

– Freshman Wildcats –
The fresh new faces in the program on the freshman team came in ready to play and took care of business fast posting a 25-14, 25-14 win Thursday night against Grand Island.

The Varsity and JV teams are next up this weekend at the Heartland of America Tournament.

Varsity @ Gretna High School
JV @ Millard West High School

Both Tournament matches begin at 9:00AM

Box Scores