The Lady Panthers volleyball teams continue to win. The teams traveled to Three Forks last Thursday night to take on the Wolves, with the C girls taking a four set win 25-21, 25-14, 15-17, 15-5. The JV girls won in four also, starting the first set with a 20-25 loss, their first of the season, but they came back to win 25-22, 15-12 and 15-6.
Both teams are undefeated in match play this year at 5-0. The varsity girls started a little slow, down 1-3 in the first set, but they came storming back strong, Hope Dobyns put over a kill that gave the Panthers a bit of fire, and back-to-back aces by Dakota Edmisten gave the Panthers a 10-9 lead. Rachel Van Blaricom scored four points in a row and Abbie Youde put the Panthers up 19-10 with a block. Van Blaricom ended a 15-2 run with a sneak kill to give the Panthers a 25-11 win.
The Wolves started the second set with a 8-4 run and kept it close for a little while, but an ace by Maddie Leiva started a Panther run that proved to be more than the Wolves could answer to. Abbie Youde finished it off for a 25-18 win. The Panthers woke up in the third, with an ace by Sam Zody making it 4-1, and power hitting by Edmisten and Van Blaricom paved the way to a 25-9 win. Those two power hitters combined for 32 of the 34 kills in the match, with Edmisten slamming more than 21 and Van Blaricom 11; they also combined for 5 blocks, Youde added 2. Grace Alexander led with 14 digs, Leiva had 16 assists and Zody had 15. The Panthers are now 5-0 and traveled to Whitehall on Tuesday for the first meeting of the two Jefferson County teams.
