The week’s action for the area’s girls volleyball teams culminated with last Friday’s match between East Syracuse Minoa and Christian Brothers Academy, where the Spartans, completing a stretch of three wins in four nights, beat the Brothers in four sets.

ESM easily handled the opening set, 25-15, and perhaps relaxed a bit – which allowed CBA to pull even and win the second set 25-17. From there, though, it was all Spartans, who won the next two sets by 25-16 and 25-13 margins to claim the match.

Isabella Calcagino earned seven kills for the Spartans, her passes often coming from Isabella Talarico, who earned 16 assists. Katheryn Mangovski added four aces and seven digs as, for CBA, Liz Adams had 10 assists, with Catherine Burns earning five aces and Alexandria Fess getting four aces, four kills and four digs.

Before that, ESM went to Altmar-Parish-Williamstown last Monday night and pulled away from the Rebels, claiming a 25-18, 25-16, 25-14 sweep. Then it went to Pulaski Wednesday and won again, rolling through the first two sets 25-11 and 25-7 before a third-set 25-23 defeat and a 25-15 win over the Blue Devils in the fourth set to close it out.

Against Pulaski, Talarico finished with 14 assists, passing it to Mangovski, who had six kills, and Sophia Zacharek, who earned five kills. Julianna Cacace served up a season-best seven aces as Samantha Wysoki gained four digs.

In the lead-up to facing ESM, CBA reversed anan early-season slide by sweeping Pulaski last Monday night, dominating the match from start to finish as it swept past that other group of Blue Devils 25-15, 25-14, 25-13.

Burns, Alexandria Fess and Amanda Fess set the tone, picking up four aces apiece. Amanda Fess also had four kills as Adriana Fess matched that total of four kills. Adams earned 10 assists, adding two kills, the same total as Sydney Congel and Morh’ese Oben.

Manlius-Pebble Hill, who was 3-0 going into last Tuesday’s match against Fabius-Pompey, could not make it four in a row, seeing its comeback fall just short in a five-set defeat to the Falcons, who improved its own mark to 5-0.

Through the first two sets, the Trojans got overwhelmed, losing them to the Falcons by 25-17 and 25-15 margins. But then MPH turned it around, taking the third set 25-17 and dominating the fourth set 25-14. That led to a final set that went back and forth before F-P pulled it out, 25-22, to take the match.

In defeat, Sophie Novak had 16 kills, eight blocks and three aces, her passes often coming from KayLee Steiner, who earned 22 assists, plus six kills, two aces and two digs. Jordan Dunaway-Barlow mixed in seven kills, seven digs and four aces. Amina Kilpatrick had five aces as Maggie Carmen (12 digs) and Julia Metles-Grove (six digs) led MPH’s defensive effort. For F-P, Liz Becuhner had 20 digs, Kelsey White earned 19 assists and Carly Powell gained 12 kills.

Then MPH lost another five-set match to Onondaga on Thursday night, where the pattern of the Fabius-Pompey match repeated itself. Again, the Trojans lost the first two sets, 25-11 and 25-20, and again it came back to pull even, edging the Tigers 25-23 in the third and 25-22 in the fourth, only to see the rally fizzle when OCS won the final set 25-17.

Steiner had 23 assists, five kills and three aces, her passes going to Novak, who mixed in 13 kills, seven aces and two blocks, and Dunaway-Barlow, who had 11 kills, 11 digs and four aces. Julia Walsh added four kills and five aces as Carmen got 16 digs and Metles-Grove added eight digs. OCS featured 10 kills from both Jade Haumann and Rayna Pouliot, with Rebecca Mack getting 14 assists and Lauren Aguirre 10 assists.