CENTRAL NEW YORK – A well-earned rest last weekend awaited the Skaneateles girls volleyball team after it played four times in five days last week – and the Lakers won them to improve is record to 13-1.
Skaneateles won in four sets over Cortland last Monday night, claiming the first set 25-20 and, after a rough second-set 25-10 defeat, rebounding to pull out 25-21 and 25-20 wins over the Purple Tigers in the third and fourth sets.
Delaney Fish got 18 assists and four aces, with Cyndey Pitman getting 10 assists, seven digs and six kills. Alyssa Franciamone got 21 digs as, up front, Ayla Pas’cal amassed 11 kills and eight blocks, Maggie Lootens adding seven kills and eight digs.
Then, meeting Jordan-Elbridge a night later, the Lakers got a 25-16, 25-23, 25-17 win as Lootens had 12 kills and 10 digs, Pas’cal adding 10 kills and Walsh five kills.
Fish, with 16 assists, and Pittman, with 14 assists, continued to split up back-line duties as Franciamone earned 16 digs and Walsh eight digs. J-E saw Zoie Karcz get nine assists and Claire Brown amass 19 digs as Abby DelFavero earned four kills.
In Thursday’s match against Homer, the Lakers rolled in the first set 25-15 and lost the second 25-19, but then won the third set 25-16 and then just held off the Trojans 25-23 in the fourth to get the match win.
Pas’cal’s 17 kills, four blocks, two aces and two assists set the tone. Lootens had nine kills and nine digs, with Pitman getting 13 assists, four kills and seven digs as Fish earned 16 assists. Franciamone had 14 digs and Walsh earned five kills, plus 10 digs.
Somehow, after all these matches Skaneateles had enough energy to face Oswego Friday night and put away the Buccaneers in a 25-15, 25-16, 25-16 sweep.
With 13 assists, Fish led the back line, Pitman getting eight digs. Ayla Pas’cal had 14 kills, five blocks, two aces, two assists and three digs as Lootens added five kills, wth Finn Pas’cal joining Walsh earning three kills.
J-E, after a strong 9-3 September run, began the new month by facing Class C front-runner LaFayette and taking a 25-9, 25-22, 25-16 defeat to the Lancers. Kendra Anderson earn 17 digs, with Brown adding 12 digs. Ryleigh Gill and Brenna Tubbert had three blocks apiece.
Then, after falling to Skaneateles, the Eagles handled Institute of Technology Central 25-5, 25-20, 25-19 on Friday night. Sydney Parsons earned five kills, with Brooke Chiaramonte adding six digs to equal Brown and Karcz.
Westhill stomped past Cortland 25-8, 25-11, 25-11 last Tuesday as Eva Tarolli had 10 kills and Jocelyn Caputo seven kills, plus three blocks. Ava Baty had 15 assists and Alice Bender got 12 digs as Sophia Johnson put away four aces.
Solvay got its second win in of the season last Monday when it swept Mexico 25-10, 25-13, 25-18. Riley Gosha had six of the Bearcats’ 20 aces from eight different players as she also got seven assists. Rachel Willsey had nine digs and Gianna D’Eredita got seven digs as Victoria Zappala, Hannah Haase and Ashlyn Smorol earned three kills apiece.
Then the Bearcatgs swept Bishop Grimes 25-23, 25-20, 25-19 a night later. Haase earned seven aces and seven digs, with Gosha getting six assists and Riley Cintron seven assists as D’Eredita got eight digs and Emma Rutkowski produced five kills.
Things turned around again Wednesday when Solvay lost 25-20, 25-21, 25-17 to Phoenix. Cintron, in defeat, had 10 assists, Haase earning 11 digs to go with four kills as Willsey had nine digs and Riley Gosha seven digs.
