The Cicero-North Syracuse girls volleyball team got a big win early last week, defeating West Genesee as it tore through the first set 25-6 and, after losing the second set 25-21, pulled out close 27-25 and 25-23 victories in the next two sets to put away the Wildcats.
Kaylin VanAuken emerged with 23 assists and eight digs to help Kim Barry on the back line as Barry finished with 18 assists, seven kills and four digs. Olivia Salvador added 19 digs as Olivia Johnson earned 12 kills, with Madelyn Murray adding nine kills. Brooke Nicolaos had seven kills, nine digs and four aces. Grace Nicolini also had seven kills.
This followed Tuesday’s 25-12, 25-8, 25-9 sweep of Corcoran where C-NS got seven aces from VanAuken and six aces from Murray, plus five kills. VanAuken had 11 assists and Barry eight assists as Johnson put away a team-best 11 kills.
The second girls volleyball match between Liverpool and Baldwinsville on Oct. 6 did not go the way the first one did a few weeks earlier.
In that initial meeting, the Warriors earned a set against the Bees, perhaps establishing within itself a belief that it could at least keep up with the Class AA dynasty up the road.
Yet the rematch at Liverpool took a different turn, the Warriors nearly winning the first set, but B’ville taking it 27-25 on the way to a 25-11 romp in the second set and a 25-20 victory in the third.
Sophie Vangelov had 10 assists and Sydney Caviness had five assists, with Toria Betelak recording six kills ahead of Madison Lapoint (four kills) and Hayley Feldt (three kills) as Ashley Teixeira had 15 digs and Lapoint added eight digs.
On B’ville’s side, Sophia Cronk (14 kills), Rileigh Kimball (11 kills) and Katie Welcher (nine kills) shared the front-line duties as Maddie Stone fed them with 40 assists and Summer McClintic got 11 digs.
Liverpool bounced back in last Tuesday’s tough five-set win over Fayetteville-Manlius, winning the first two sets 25-18 and 25-20, only to drop the next two sets 25-22 and 25-19 before pulling away 25-13 in the final set.
Leahana Keeling had 12 kills, with Betelak getting nine kills and 10 blocks. Lapoint had six kills as Vangelov got five kills to go with 21 assists. Caviness added 12 assists as Teixeira (15 digs) got defensive help from Makenzie Stonebarger, who had 12 digs. F-M’s Erianna Madill had 45 assists, passing it to Paige Hulbert, who had 29 kills, and Saara Vahtola, who got 21 kills.
