After the Liverpool and Cicero-North Syracuse girls volleyball teams made strong runs at the Baldwinsville Fall Fling Tournament on Sept. 17, both sides looked for a fair amount of success in the week that followed.
For the Warriors, that all hinged on whether it had made up ground on B’ville since falling to the Bees in last November’s Section III Class AA final. The three-set defeat seemed to indicate that little had changed.
After dropping the first set 25-12, Liverpool took leads of 5-0 in the second set and 4-0 in the third set, yet neither of them held up, B’ville still prevailing 25-17 and 25-13 to complete the sweep as Maddie Stone, with 28 assists, five kills and five digs, fed it to Kiannah Titus and Michelle Voyer (eight kills apiece) and Sophia Cronk, who had six kills.
On the Warriors’ side, no one got close to those numbers, though Karlie King still managed four kills. Lee Keeling had three kills as Maddie Lapointe, Abby Anderson and Tori Bedelak had two kills apiece. Caitlyn Metrick had 10 aces and four kills.
Liverpool tuned up for F-M with a sweep of last Tuesday’s match against Fayetteville-Manlius, where the first and third sets proved close and tense, but the Warriors pulled them out and won 26-24, 25-16, 25-23.
Caitlyn Metrick put together 12 assists, three digs, three blocks and two aces, with Maddie Lapointe adding seven assists. Up front, Abby Anderson had seven kills and four blocks, while Karlie King had five kills and four blocks. Lee Keeling added four aces and three kills as Tori Bedelak got four blocks and Katie Boak had seven digs, plus three kills.
C-NS played last Tuesday and put together a 25-16, 25-7, 25-17 sweep of the Corcoran Cougars. Savannah Ciciarelli recorded seven aces, plus for kills and 10 digs, as Sharlene Richards put together 10 assists and five aces. Madelyn Murray had five kills and Jessica Barry five assists as Olivia Johnson (eight digs), Olivia Salvador (four digs) and Grace Nicolini (three kills) helped, too.
This led to a key match Wednesday at West Genesee, where both teams arrived with just one loss on the season. But even though C-NS kept most of the scores close, it lost in three sets to the Wildcats 25-20, 25-17, 25-19.
Barry still picked up 15 assists and five digs, adding two kills and two blocks. Johnson earned a team-best eight kills, with Murray getting four kills and Ciciarelli picking up 18 digs to go with four aces. WG saw Sasha Mekker (23 assists), Audrey Dennis (10 kills) and Jaylin Mallore (21 digs) lead the way.
To open its abbreviated week of action (last Wednesday’s match with Central Square was postponed until this Friday), the Liverpool boys volleyball team met Fayetteville-Manlius, and while improving in each set, it still fell to the Hornets 25-11, 25-19, 25-23.
Trevor Morrow picked up 15 assists, with Tom Tracy earning a team-best five kills. Lucas Manganiello put together four kills and three aces as Will Karins contributed four digs. On F-M’s side, Jacob Rhea (10 kills), Cade Collum (eight kills), Jack Fuller (seven kills) and Ryan Boshart (six kills) worked in front of Chris Perry, who had 28 assists.
Then Cicero-North Syracuse took its turn against F-M last Wednesday night and remained unbeaten, gaining a 25-18, 25-10, 25-17 sweep over the Hornets.
Connor Millias, with his 32 assists, passed it to a front line where Trevor Caviness earned 15 kills and Justin Kegebein added seven kills, plus five digs and three aces. Robert Patzer had five aces to go with his five kills as Josh Bigford matched that five-kill output and David Delaney earned four kills.
And this led to Thursday night’s showdown between C-NS and Oswego, but the Northstars swept here, too, by a 25-15, 25-16, 25-19 margin, utilizing its depth to gradually wear the Buccaneers’ defenses down.
Caviness earned 11 kills, pacing a front line where Bigford got seven kills as Kegebein and Patzer each got five kills, Kegebein adding three assists. Millias fed them with 28 assists to go with four kills, while holding Oswego stars Jake Caster to four kills and Jason Proud to 10 assists.
