After starting the opening weeks of the season on the road, the Corry Lady Beavers varsity volleyball team finally made it home to the East Gym Tueaday evening to host the Erie Royals for its home opener.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Lady Beavers put on a clinic for their first home game, and cruised to a 3-0 sweep. They are now 3-1 on the season and 1-0 in region play.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOur goal coming into tonight\u2019s match was to manage our emotions, focus on our sde of the night and play efficiently,\u201d Corry Lady Beavers varsity volleyball head coach Kelly Goodsel said. \u201cI thought we accomplished those goals.\u201d<\/p>\n
Corry set the tone early in the first set and quickly built an 11-4 lead to force an early Erie timeout. A 7-1 Lady Beavers run forced Erie to take its second timeout (18-5). The Royals were never able to grab momentum, and Corry took the set 25-11 for the 1-0 lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Set two played out in similar fashion. The Lady Beavers jumped out to a 9-1 lead and never looked back. Corry once again won the set 25-11 and pulled further ahead 2-0.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Senior Ellie Carey serves an ace for a Beavers point.<\/p>\n
Jack Hasbrouck\/The Corry Journal<\/p>\n
The third set continued the pattern of the previous two. The Lady Beavers once again opened with a big early lead (8-1) and never ceded momentum. Corry won th set comfortably 25-10 and won the match overall 3-0.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Sophomore Ava West led the team in kills with eight. Senior Grace Allen finished just behind with seven kills as did senior Rylee Nickerson with six. Seniors Regan Kemp and Kendall Donoghue both finished with three kills and junior Morgan Vanderschaaff and sophomore Liv Swan both had two kills respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Senior Haley Mumau led the team in assists with 24. Sophomore Maci Kemp had six assists and senior Ellie Carey had one.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Defensively, Regan Kemp led in team digs with seven. Mumau finished right behind with six digs, senior Ali Yetzer, West and Carey all had five digs each, sophomore Mikayla Comitz had three, Maci Kemp had two and sophomore Jordyn Watrous, junior Katie Downey and Nickerson all had one a piece.\u00a0<\/p>\n
At the service line, Nickerson had a team high three aces. Allen, Comitz and Regan Kemp all recorded two aces. Mumau, Downey, Carey and Maci Kemp all recorded one ace each.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cGetting 15 players some time on the court is important for later in the season and prepares us for the future when the current seven seniors graduate,\u201d Goodsel said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Lady Beavers are back on the road today at the House of Thrills in Meadville. Opening serve will follow the conclusion of junior varsity action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After starting the opening weeks of the season on the road, the Corry Lady Beavers varsity volleyball team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,726],"class_list":["post-288859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}