The Juneau-Douglas High School: Yadaa.at Kalé Crimson Bears volleyball team kicked off their Anchorage road trip on the wrong side of a three-set sweep.<\/p>\n
JDHS fell to host East Anchorage 25-9, 25-8 and 25-22 on Thursday inside the Bettye Davis East Anchorage gymnasium.<\/p>\n
In set one, East led 2-0 before JDHS junior Cambry Lockhart tipped a shot to get on the board.<\/p>\n
East would regain possession and score on two kills by Evelyn Whitson and a tip by Italian senior exchange student Sofia Zaccanti for a 5-1 advantage.<\/p>\n
JDHS senior Evelyn Richards killed a shot for service, but East again regained possession and Whitson served to a 13-2 advantage with an ace and kills by Zaccanti and sophomore Raisa Logoleo.<\/p>\n
JDHS had a kill by junior Lavinia Ma’ake, but did not score on service, and East freshman Tina Laufiso served out to a 17-3 lead.<\/p>\n
A JDHS kill by junior Natalia Harris again went unanswered on service, and Logoleo served East to 20-4.<\/p>\n
A miss hit put JDHS junior Neela Thomas at service for an ace and an opponent’s miss hit to trail 20-6.<\/p>\n
East’s Zaccanti served to a 23-7 lead with two aces until JDHS’ Richards killed for point eight.<\/p>\n
After exchanging services, East killed for the win 25-9.<\/p>\n
In set two, East again took an early lead of 14-2 with their own miss hits giving JDHS points. The Thunderbirds would lead 19-5. JDHS scoring came from kills by Richards, junior Braith Dihle and sophomore June Troxel.<\/p>\n
East next led at 23-7 with a service error and a miss hit scoring for JDHS. Richards killed for the Crimson Bears final eighth point at 24-8 and East killed to end the set.<\/p>\n
JDHS found their rhythm in the third set, opening a 5-2 advantage with Dihle serving and kills by Ma’ake and Richards.<\/p>\n
The Crimson Bears led 9-4 with sophomore Brie Powers serving and a kill and block by sophomore Amelia Effers. Service by Ma’ake, including an ace, pushed the advantage to 9-4 and JDHS would exchange multiple service possessions for a 17-14 lead that included kills by Harris, Dihle and Ma’ake.<\/p>\n
East put a run on behind senior Shaelynn Dovell at service and took a 20-17 lead.<\/p>\n
JDHS regained service and the lead at 21-20, with Ma’ake serving and a block by Effers and kills by Dihle and Lockhart.<\/p>\n
East went up 23-21 on JDHS miss hits and after Dihle killed for service to pull within 23-22, East’s Dovell killed for match point and Zaccanti for match.<\/p>\n
“We didn’t come out ready to play and got off to a really slow start,” JDHS coach Jody Levernier said. “But the third set we started picking up the pace a little and playing more like a team. Hopefully we got that out of our system and they will be ready to play their game tomorrow…it was a long day. It is a long day when we get up at 5 a.m., fly and get here at 9:30 a.m. and play at 7 p.m.”<\/p>\n
The Crimson Bears play in the Dimond\/Service Tournament this weekend. Four pools of round-robin play on Friday includes Group A: JDHS, Colony, Dimond, Grace Christian, Kodiak; Group B: Chugiak, Nikiski, North Pole, South Anchorage, West Anchorage 2; Group C: Palmer, Service, Valdez, West Anchorage 1, West Valley; and Group D: Bartlett, East, Kenai, Lathrop and Soldotna. Teams will be seeded for bracket play in Saturday’s final matches.<\/p>\n
• Contact Klas Stolpe at klas.stolpe@juneauempire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" JDHS swept under East Anchorage power net attack <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":113115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[240,218],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-113114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-sports","tag-high-school-sports","tag-volleyball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113114"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=113114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}