Junior High VB Girls Compete in Hoxie Tourney
On Saturday, September 24, the junior high volleyball teams played in the Hoxie Tournament. St. Francis played teams from Hoxie, Trego Community, and Decatur Community.
In A team action, St. Francis lost to Hoxie 16-25; 12-25. McKenzie Taylor led the Lady Indians in serving with 7 good serves.
Against Trego Community, the A team lost in three sets: 18-25; 25-13; 13-15. Emily Elfers was the leading server in this match with 13 good ones. Kayla Reed had 9 good serves.
In the A team match against Decatur Community, the young Lady Indians revenged a loss earlier in the week, by winning 25-20; 25-14. McKenzie Taylor (10), Kayla Reed (9), and Caroleve Harris (7) led the Lady Indians in serving.
In B team action, St. Francis lost to Hoxie in three sets: 18-25; 25-17; 5-15. Sydney Sunstrom had 11 good serves while Katie Schmid had 9 and Sophie White 8.
In the Trego Community match, St. Francis won in two sets: 25-12; 26-24. Alexis Frink led all St. Francis servers with 11 good ones. Sydney Sundstrom, Jenna Confer, and Katie Schmid each had 8 good serves.
St. Francis also defeated the Decatur Community B team in two sets 25-7; 25-9. Sophie White led the Sainty serving with 9 good serves. Alexis Frink and Jenna Confer each had 8 good ones.
Coach Tina Elliott made the following comments on the day, "The A & B teams played in different gyms at the same time for this tournament so Talley Morrow filled in and coached the B team. A team struggled against Hoxie and lost in 2 sets, then against Trego it was close we took them into 3 sets but lost in the end by 2 points. We didn’t give up and came out strong and beat Oberlin for our final match of the day. B team also struggled against Hoxie but put up a good fight and took them into 3 sets. Against Trego & Oberlin we came on strong and had good serves which definitely helped us to win. We defeated both of them in just 2 sets making it a great way to finish the day. Overall, A team had their struggles but worked through them to have the final win with 1 out of 3 wins for the day. B team didn’t get down after their first match and really took charge of the next two matches giving them 2 out of 3 wins for the day. Only one more match before league and then a lot of practice in between to work out some of our short comings and I have confidence in these girls that they will continue to work hard on their technique and how they play and will finish well in the season."
