Bulldogs send Pirates to murky depths in both JV & Varsity matches.
From Coach Shelly Prickel.
The Batesville Lady Bulldog JV Volleyball team notched a strong conference win vs. Greensburg in 2 sets. Scores were 25-17, 25-11. The team served with an impressive 94% accuracy for the match. Nikki Fox (18/18 with 14 points including 4 aces) and Regina Gerstbauer (16/16 with 14 points including 5 aces) were each perfect from the service line to lead the team. Gerstbauer was also the top attacker with 6 kills in 13 swings. Katie Bedel chipped in with 5 kills, while Grace Sarringhaus and Shelby Westerfeld had 4 kills a piece in the front line. Fox had 12 good serve receptions and 8 digs to lead the back row. The team improves to 13-5 this season.
The Varsity match didn’t quite come off as planned. But we had two very important take aways from the match. One: we can dominate teams, Two: we can gut it out when we need to!
We played very consistent ball in the first two sets, minimizing the unforced errors, hitting our spots on serve and quick transition to offense. We passed marginally well, but executed the game plan on who to stop and where our focus needed to be… but the other side of the coin dropped in game three. At one point I think we missed four or five serves in a row, thus keeping the score close and putting pressure on ourselves. Instead of a clam aggressive approach we went to a passive timid approach to which it took a full set and a half to come out of… But we regained composure enough to serve tough down the line and I think we were a bit luck to get the right rotation in the front to close out the match.
Scores were 25-20, 25-11, 22-25, 26-24. #8 Lily Abplanalp had 4 aces on 23 error free serves. #23 Hattie Westerfeld had 17 kills hitting .343 for the evening. #5 Macy Prickel had 16 digs on the evening. Full box score and stats are on MaxPreps.
Please come out to senior night at the dog pound tomorrow evening. We are celebrating the six seniors who are leaving it all on the court. #1 Bea Amberger, #8 Lily Abplanalp, # 11 Jenna Ertel, #16 Caitlyn Broering, #23 Hattie Westerfeld, # 24 Monica Gerstbauer, and MGR Mitchell Thomas. JV starts @ 5:00, with senior recognition between matches. South Dearborn will be the opponent.
Courtesy of Bulldogs Coach Jody Thomas.