Lynnfield 10-4

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WEEKLYNEWS.NET - 978-532-5880 OCTOBER 4, 2018
Volleyball team gets some revenge
By Anne Marie Tobin
LYNNFIELD — The Lynn field
volleyball team exacted a piece of
revenge Monday night at the high
school, sweeping defending Cape
Ann League champion Hamilton­
Wenham, 25­16, 25­22, 25­15.
“The took our CALs from us
last year, so it feels great to come
back and beat them tonight,”
said Pioneer coach Brent Ashley,
who saw his Pioneer streak of
seven title CAL titles come to a
screeching halt last year at the
hands of the Generals. “I think we
could have been a little angrier,
because that’s what you should
feel a grudge when a team takes
your title. But we are trying some
new combinations and giving our
swing players some reps, and it
was a good win.”
In the first set, the Pioneers
jumped out to a 20­10 lead then
traded points with the Generals
the rest of the way to close out the
set and take a 1­0 lead.
Lynnfield actually trailed 1­0
in the second set, but the Pioneers
regained the lead, thanks to solid
serving from captain Melissa
Morelli and junior Sam Lebruska,
who each served up back­to­back
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Lynnfield was cruising after
taking its largest lead of the
set at 15­7 on a monster kill by
Lebruska after a perfect set from
Sophia Wilkinson, and still led
19­11 after another Lebruska
winner, thanks to a great diving
save by Wilkinson kept the point
alive.
After that, however, too many
errors and missed opportunities let
the Generals back into the match,
who ran off eight of the next 11
points to cut their deficit to 22­19.
The teams traded hitting errors
on the next two points to make
it 23­20, but Hamilton­Wenham
closed to within two, 23­21, on a
big kill by Generals senior captain
Rose Wosepka. Morelli set up
match point with a winner that just
clipped the back line to make it 24­
21, but handed the point right back
with a hitting error. Morelli didn’t
make the same mistake twice,
slamming a cross­court winner to
the back left corner to close out the
match (assist to Wilkinson).
The third set was tight in
the early going with Lynnfield
clinging to a 9­8 lead. The
Pioneers rallied with a 10­3 run to
lead 19­11, the big shots being a
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Sofia Wilkinson lines up a return as Daniella Colarusso, left, and Mac Schena, right, look on.
couple of Morelli kills and a kill
by Lebruska after a diving dig by
sophomore Daniella Colarusso
kept the final point of the run alive.
The teams traded the next four
points then a soft kill by Mac
Schena bumped the lead to 22­14.
Two Generals’ errors later, and
another Morelli kill set up match
point at 24­15. Wilkinson closed
out the set and match with an ace.
Morelli led the offense with 15
kills, 14 assists and three digs ,
while Wilkinson had a team­high
21 assists and seven digs. Schena
had a solid game with five points
on her serve, eight kills and one
dig. Lebruska finished with six
kills and three aces, while Ashley
Pagliuca and Colarusso had seven
digs each. Sofia Ciriello (3 digs),
Kayla Mortellite (2 kills) and senior
captain Samantha DeGeorge
(2 kills) also contributed.
“After watching the tape, we had
a pretty decent defensive night,”
said Ashley. “We put away HW’s
rallies within a couple points each
time, and we went three­and­out
a number of sequences on reception
(9 times). We were in the 90
percent on both serve/receive and
when HW attacked.”
Lynnfield improved to 8­1
while Hamilton­Wenham dropped
to 6­4.
Masco 3, Lynnfield 1
At Masco, it was a battle of
two CAL undefeated teams with
the Chieftains coming in with a
4­0 CAL record and the Pioneers
at 6­0. Masco solidified its hold
on the top spot in the league despite
losing the first set, 25­20.
The Chieftains ran away with the
next three sets, 25­16, 25­17, 25­
14. The loss was the first for the
Pioneers this season after starting
the year with a 7­game winning
streak.
“We were 90 percent on serve
and receive, but only 60 percent
when they attacked, so there’s the
killer,” said Ashley. “We need to
fix the defense and seams.”
Morelli had a strong all­around
game with 16 assists, eight kills,
three digs and two aces, while
Wilkinson was also strong with 15
assists, three digs, two kills and an
ace. Lebruska finished with nine
kills, eight digs and an ace, while
Ciriello (6 digs, ace), Mortellite (6
digs, 3 kills), Schena (3 kills, ace)
and DeGeorge (6 kills, dig) also
contributed.
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Emma Mancini helped Endicott’s volleyball team win three games last week.
Mancini CCC Player of the Week
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Lynnfield resident Emma
Mancini, a senior on the Endicott
College women’s volleyball
team, was named
Commonwealth Coast Conference
Player of the Week for
the second time this season.
Mancini helped lead the Gulls
to a 3­0 week that included wins
over regionally­ranked Wesleyan
and Amherst, each by 3­1 margins.
Mancini opened the week
with a double­double (11 kills,
11 digs) in the Gulls sweep of
sweep of Salve Regina. She followed
that up with a 21 kills,
11 dig performance against
Wesleyan, the fourth ranked
team in the NEWVA Regional
poll. She capped her week with
a monster 26 kill, seven dig performance
against Amherst, the
10th ranked team in the region.
For the week, Mancini totaled
58 kills, 29 digs and 59.5 points,
for averages of 5.27 kills/set,
2.64 digs/set, and 5.4 points/set.