Wood River High School's volleyball team won its third straight Great Basin Conference match Tuesday at Burley—taking another step toward earning the second seed in the Oct. 18 GBC tournament.
The Wolverines can nail down the second seed with a home win over Jerome (7-9, 4-4) on "Senior Night" Tuesday, Oct. 12 at the Hailey gym. The varsity match begins at 7 p.m.
At Burley, coach Tim Richards' Wolverines (12-9, 5-2 league) swept the season series with the Bobcats 25-4, 25-19, 25-12. Seniors Jade Glenn (12 kills, 5 blocks) and Jessica Hamilton (5 kills, 6 digs, 16 assists, 26 serves, 2 aces) had big nights.
In the first game, Glenn had four kills and one block during a streak of 13 consecutive winning serves by Hamilton that carried visiting Wood River (31 kills) from a 3-1 lead to 15-1.
The second game was closer, Burley taking an early 9-5 lead. Wood River battled back to 12-12 and 18-18 before sophomore Kori Paradis went to the serving stripe for five winners, helped by two more Glenn kills.
Other contributors included Lily Richards (6 kills, 2 blocks, 3 digs, 11 serves), Ali Levy (8 digs, 12 serves), Paradis (5 kills, 8 serves) and Sydney Tidwell (2 blocks, 4 assists).
Wood River hosted league-leading Twin Falls (7-0 league) Thursday and travels to the Mountain View Invitational tourney today, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 9 in Meridian.
Carey wins Northside match
The Carey Panthers (4-10, 3-8 league) picked up another Northside Conference match victory Tuesday by scores of 25-9, 25-7, 25-11 at Murtaugh.
In other Northside action, The Community School Cutthroats (2-11, 2-10) played an exciting five-game match Tuesday before falling at Castleford 25-8, 22-25, 25-13, 20-25, 15-6.
Cutthroat coach Kristyn Price Rutland said about her team's progress compared to a three-game home loss to Castleford Sept. 9, "We're building."
Wednesday, the Cutthroats returned home to The Fish Tank in Sun Valley where the Dietrich Blue Devils handed them a 25-19, 25-7, 25-17 loss.
Senior 5-10 middle blocker Natalie Goddard (5 kills, 4 serves, 1 ace) led the Cutthroats and junior 5-9 outside hitter Meredith Pintler (3 kills, 3 serves, 2 aces) chipped in. So did 6-1 junior MB Sophia Carkonen (2 kills, 2 blocks), Jolie Blair (3 serves) and Morgan Roudabush (3 serves).
Leading Dietrich were Yoshira McDaniel (5 kills, 13 serves, 5 aces), Jessica Perron (7 kills), Moriah Dill (4 kills, 3 blocks, 7 serves, 4 aces) and Cheyenne Hubert (2 kills, 10 serves, 4 aces).
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Jade Glenn
Jessica Hamilton
Hunter Thompson
Ali Levy
Allie Hesteness
