VOLLEYBALL BEARCATS WIN SECOND ROAD GAME OF WEEK

The Bearcat volleyball team won a second straight road game Tuesday night taking down Lamar in four sets 25-9, 25-21, 23-25, 25-15.

Presley Walker (shown) got the Bearcats off to a fast start in the first set registering a kill to break the ice and two more to make it 3-1.

Those came with Emily Wooldridge serving and she followed with an ace and one by Walker in front on a Shelbie Myers kill made it 7-3.

Lyddia Franklin had a kill and a returned another ball that was not returned on the way to a 13-6 lead and Ellie Smith registered a kill to make it 15-7.

At 16-8 Wooldridge started serving again and would deliver another ace for an 18-8 lead before service was broke but a kill by Kaylee Ray made it a double digit lead again at 19-9.

That started a set clinching 7-0 run that included three aces by Walker.

The second set started with Farrah Stringer serving up a 2-0 lead but the set would be tied at 3 until a Smith kill and another Wooldridge ace.

A Walker dig led to a point and a Smith ace had the Bearcats up 9-5 but Lamar responded with four straight to tie the set before a Vanessa O’Neal kill.

However, the set would be tied again at 10, 11, and 12 before Lamar opened a 15-12 lead.

A Franklin smash broke the run and started one by the Bearcats as with Wooldridge on the service line momentum swung to the Bearcats to an 18-15 lead prompting a time out.

Wooldridge sent an ace out of the time out and it was 20-15 before Lamar regained serve.

A Walker block led to a point and an ace by Walker opened a six point lead but Lamar would climb back to within 23-21.

After a Bearcat time out an O’Neal kill and a Ray ace ended the set at 25-21.

The third set saw Lamar open a 7-1 lead before the Bearcats went to the bench to regroup and, with Wooldridge serving, would actually run out to a 10-7 lead on a run capped by a Ray kill.

With the sweep in sight the Bearcats continued to lead by as many as five points with aces from Walker and Ray until a Lamar surge tiee it at 20 and a
resulted in a time out.

A break later it was 22-20 and eventually 23-21 but Lamar broke serve tied it on an ace, then scored the next two to force a fourth set.

Stringer started the fourth set with an ace and the Bearcats never trailed.

With Wooldridge on the service line the lead grew to 6-1 and with Smith serving and ace it was 9-3.

Lamar got within 9-6 but a dig by Lilly Down led to a point and started a series in which she had another dig on the way to a point and two aces while serving through a 16-7 lead.

When Downs and Rylee Haller collided on a dig effort Lamar was able to get within 17-13 but a Cam Parish dig kept a point alive to eventually make it 18-13 and send Wooldridge to serve.

She stayed there through a Walker kill that made it 20-13 and necessitated a Lamar time out.

An ace by Smith got it to 23-15 and a point by Myers brought on set and match point.

The Bearcats will next play Thursday night, taking on Magazine in just the second home match of the season. The Junior High A and JV teams will play first with the junior high game starting at 4:30.

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