HS VOLLEYBALL: Top teams have strong week; Season closing fast

It has been a tough season for volleyball fans.

Governor Tom Wolf won his appeal to the Third Circuit Court and the gathering restrictions are anchored in place. That means only 25 at indoor events. And it means very few are able to see the outstanding talent the girls volleyball teams are bringing to the courts.

That being said, we will keep people posted. One of the resources that ON THE BLOG has used is MaxPreps. There several Lackawanna League teams have and continue to post team stat leaders. Based on what we see, here are some athletes who standout at this point of the season.

 

STATISTICS

Kills
Hunter Heeman, Blue Ridge	78
Elisa Delfino, Dunmore	51
Kathy Shepherd, Western Wayne	50
Sam Zaic, North Pocono	46
Skylar Long, Western Wayne	35
Kaeli Romanowski, Western Wayne	31
Emma Monson, North Pocono	30
Maddie Lessard, Dunmore	20
Points
Libby Zick, Blue Ridge	68
Skyla Long, Western Wayne	64
Kaylyn Lewis, Blue Ridge	59
Jada Siino, Western Wayne	52
Kaeli Romanowski, Western Wayne	45
Jaclyn Marichak, Dunmore	44
Sophia Pacewicz, Dunmore	42
Katie White, Blue Ridge	41
Foxlynn King, Blue Ridge	41
Digs
Lydia Andusko, Blue Ridge	109
Hunter Heeman, Blue Ridge	59
Kate Spencer, Blue Ridge	46
Sophia Pacewicz, Dunmore	45
Libby Zick, Blue Ridge	45
Foxlynn King, Blue Ridge	39
Kaylyn Lewis, Blue Ridge	36
Breanna Post, Blue Ridge	36
Kendra Jordan, North Pocono	26
Jaclyn Marichak, Dunmore	22
Ashleigh Barton, Blue Ridge	20
Cassidy Howe, Blue Ridge	20
Skyla Long, Western Wayne	18
Assists
Libby Zick, Blue Ridge	157
Kaeli Romanowski, Western Wayne	98
Ana Pacewicz, Dunmore	89
Elizabeth Schieber, North Pocono	89

 

 

A CLOSER LOOK

 

A look at last week in the Lackawanna League, the top teams did well, even in defeat.

North Pocono won two straight, beating Elk Lake and Montrose by 3-0 scores. The Lady Trojans lead the division with a 6-0 record and already has wins over Dunmore and Blue Ridge. There is a showdown ahead against Western Wayne.

Western Wayne also won two matches last week by 3-0 scores, beating Lackawanna Trail and Elk Lake.

Dunmore and Blue Ridge waged their yearly battle last week. Dunmore earned a 3-2 win to stay within a match of North Pocono in the standings. Blue Ridge is 2-3 in the league with its three losses coming to North Pocono, Western Wayne and Dunmore by 3-2 scores.

Blue Ridge also won a nonleague match at Western Wayne, 3-1. In that match, Hunter Heeman and Ashleigh Barton each had nine kills. Heeman also had 19 digs, while Lydia Andusko had 18. Freshman Libby Zick had 28 assists for the Lady Raiders. Kathy Shepherd paced Western Wayne with 11 kills and Kaeli Romanowski had 17 assists.

Dunmore also played, and won, 3-0, its nonleague match against Forest City as the Lady Foresters rejoin competition. Elisa Delfino had nine kills and Ana Pacewicz contributed 15 assists in the victory.

 

 

Dunmore edges Blue Ridge in five sets

 

Elisa Delfino had 13 kills and Maddie Lessard had 11 kills to lead Dunmore to a 3-2 win over Blue Ridge in a Lackawanna League girls volleyball match Thursday.
Ana Pacewicz had 25 assists for the Lady Bucks, Sophia Pacewicz had 12 digs and 15 points, Jenna Cruser had 11 points, seven aces and seven digs and Jaclyn Marichak had 11 digs and eight points.
Hunter Heeman had 23 kills and 22 digs for Blue Ridge, Katie White had six kills, Libby Zick had 34 assists, five aces and 16 digs and Kate Spencer had 20 digs.

 

 

 

LACKAWANNA LEAGUE STANDINGS

DIVISION I		DIVISION II
North Pocono	6-0	Mountain View	2-3
Dunmore	4-1	Blue Ridge	2-3
Western Wayne	4-1	Susquehanna	2-4
Lackawanna Trail	3-2	Montrose	1-4
		Elk Lake	0-5

 

TOP 5 RANKING

RANK		TEAM	RECORD	LAST RANK
1		NORTH POCONO LADY TROJANS	6-0	1
2		DELAWARE VALLEY LADY WARRIORS	6-2	2
3		DUNMORE LADY BUCKS	5-1	3
4t		WESTERN WAYNE LADY ‘CATS	4-2	4
4t		BLUE RIDGE LADY RAIDERS	3-3	5

 

WHAT’S AHEAD?

 

LACKAWANNA LEAGUE

Tuesday	Thursday
Lackawanna Trail at Dunmore	Susquehanna at Mountain View
Montrose at Blue Ridge	Western Wayne at Montrose
Mountain View at Western Wayne	Blue Ridge at Lackawanna Trail
North Pocono at Susquehanna	Dunmore at Elk Lake
Forest City at Elk Lake	North Pocono BYE

 

NOTE: Blue Ridge is at North Pocono on MONDAY.

 

DELAWARE VALLEY IN THE WVC

The Lady Warriors have a challenging slate this week. Tunkhannock has a strong program and is 5-3 this season. Holy Redeemer is the most accomplished program in the WVC.

Tuesday	Thursday
Delaware Valley at Tunkhannock	Delaware Valley at Holy Redeemer

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DISTRICT 2 POWER RANKINGS

 

CLASS 4A

School	W-L-T	Rating	TWP	OWP	Games (Left)
Delaware Valley	6-2-0	0.67	0.771084	0.53	13(5)
Hazleton Area	4-4-0	0.51	0.536585	0.48	13(5)
Wyoming Valley West	1-6-0	0.33	0.172932	0.56	13(6)
Wilkes-Barre	0-7-0	0.27	0.000000	0.65	13(6)

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CLASS 3A

School	W	L	T	Rating	TWP	OWP	Games (Left)
Berwick Area	5-	0-	0	0.799817	1.000000	0.511749	13(8)
Greater Nanticoke Area	9-	0-	0	0.787013	1.000000	0.480519	13(4)
North Pocono	6-	0-	0	0.756068	1.000000	0.405045	11(5)
Crestwood	6-	2-	0	0.632313	0.773810	0.428696	13(5)
Pittston Area	6-	3-	0	0.586245	0.688525	0.439063	14(5)
Tunkhannock	5-	3-	0	0.584563	0.660714	0.474979	13(5)
Athens Area	4-	2-	0	0.481168	0.610169	0.295533	16(10)-PP=1
Shamokin	5-	6-	0	0.425209	0.432558	0.414634	16(5)
Dallas	1-	6-	0	0.364098	0.167883	0.646456	13(6)
Hanover Area (2)	1-	6-	0	0.332886	0.155556	0.588068	13(6)
Wyoming Area	0-	7-	0	0.298714	0.000000	0.728571	13(6)
Abington Heights	0-	0-	0	0.000000	0.000000	0.000000	0(0)

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CLASS 2A

School	W	L	T	Rating	TWP	OWP	Games (Left)
Holy Redeemer	3-	1-	0	0.709400	0.762500	0.632987	13(9)
Dunmore	5-	1-	0	0.691850	0.824074	0.501577	11(5)
Lake Lehman	4-	4-	0	0.536956	0.536585	0.537489	13(5)
Western Wayne	4-	2-	0	0.527461	0.614035	0.402878	11(5)
Montrose	1-	4-	0	0.277768	0.177570	0.421955	8(3)
Forest City Regional	0-	2-	0	0.262544	0.000000	0.640351	6(4)
Elk Lake	0-	6-	0	0.198235	0.000000	0.483501	9(3)

 

CLASS 1A

School	W-L-T	Rating	TWP	OWP	Games (Left)
Lackawanna Trail	3-2-0	0.54	0.569892	0.49	9(4)
Blue Ridge	3-3-0	0.49	0.474138	0.52	12(6)
Mountain View	3-3-0	0.47	0.475000	0.46	10(4)
Susquehanna Community	2-4-0	0.35	0.301587	0.43	9(3)

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