High School Girls Volleyball
Lady Railers defeat Bloomington to end the regular season

 

[October 20, 2023] 

Lincoln hosted the Bloomington High School Raiders on Thursday night in the last regular season home game.

The Lady Railers had no trouble defeating Bloomington 25-9 and 25-7.

Alyssa Company led the Lady Railers with 9 kills.

Peyton Sasse added 8 kills for Lincoln.

Set one

Alyssa Company started the set with a kill deep in the Raiders backcourt and this ignited a 5-0 run by Lincoln. After Peyton Sasse and Kloe Froebe put together back-to-back kills, Lincoln commanded a 10-3 lead. Another kill by Froebe stretched the lead to 12-3. Lincoln captured a 17-6 lead after Company added a couple more kills. A huge kill by Sasse put the Lady Railers up 19-7. Sasse recorded another kill to make the score 22-8. Rebecca Burge ended the set on a kill and this gave Lincoln a victory with a final score of 25-9.

Set two

Lincoln went up 2-0 in set two with Taryn Stoltzenburg serving an ace and Alyssa Company coming up with a tip. Company’s kill off the slide gave Lincoln a 6-2 lead. Makia Hassebrock added a kill to make the score 11-4. Lincoln put together a 6-0 run behind two more kills from Company and an ace by Becca Heitzig. With the score 17-5 it was very obvious the Raiders were having a bad night.

Meanwhile, Sasse was having a good night and she had four kills down the stretch that Bloomington could not handle. Company was also having a tremendous night and she recorded one more kill towards the end of the set to help Lincoln to a 25-7 victory.

Lincoln finishes the regular season with a 30-4 record.

Lincoln will open regional play next Tuesday night at 6:00 p.m. at Champaign Central.

Lincoln will play the winner of the Urbana versus Danville match that will be played on Monday night.

In the freshman match versus Bloomington, Lincoln won 15-9, 15-11 and 12-15.

In the JV match versus Bloomington, Lincoln lost in three sets, 25-17, 24-26 and 12-15.

Varsity stats versus Bloomington

Company 9 kills 1 block
Sasse 8 kills 2 blocks 2 digs
Burge 5 kills 1 dig
Froebe 4 kills 9 digs
Qualters 25 assists 3 digs
Heitzig 17 digs 1 assist
Hassebrock 1 kill 1 dig
Stoltzenburg 4 digs

[Teena Lowery]