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
1
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2
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3
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4
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5
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Grand Island Senior
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7
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23
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11
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Millard West
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25
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25
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25
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