By Alysia Deem
LoudounPrepSports.com Multimedia Content Manager
Ashburn (Oct. 15, 1008) – Midway through last night’s AA Dulles District volleyball match at Briar Woods High School, second-place Heritage found itself trailing 2-0 in sets and struggling in the third frame. Pride coach Carmel Keilty implored her team during a timeout to step up their game and that is exacly what Heritage did as the Pride roared back for a thrilling 25-23, 25-22, 21-25, 22-25, 9-15 win.
For Heritage (10-1, 16-1) earlier in the season needed five sets to dispatch the up-and-coming Briar Woods (6-5, 10-5) team. The Pride still have regular-season title hopes alive as they finish on Oct. 23 by hosting undefeated Loudoun County (11-0, 17-0) but first they must host Freedom Thursday and Dominion next Tuesday. Briar Woods is one game back of Potomac Falls for the No. 3 seed in the district tournament and faces the powerhouse Raiders Thursday in Leesburg and then a non-district match with Handley before finishing at Park View next Tuesday and then hosting PF in a nice end-of-the-regular-season-showdown on Oct. 23.
Heritage’s hitters had a big night with Ashley Scott (20 kills), Emma LeMaitre (18 kills) and Lian Bernett (11 kills) combining for 49 kills. Pride freshman setter, Stephanie Yokoyama worked her way to 51 assists in the win. It should be noted that those kills were going to a good cause as the Pride have now raised $363 for ****** Cancer Research with 121 total kills in the month of October.
Also for Heritage:
Skye Young had 4 blocks
Megan Beckwith had 25 digs
LeMaitre had 10 digs
Scott had 10 digs
Scott had 15 serve points
Yokoyama had 11 serve points
LeMaitre had 10 serve points
Reports BW coach Rich Bennett: “We played some great volleyball last night at home vs Heritage. Just not enough to win – even with 48 kills for team total.”
BW stats for the match:
Krysta Gardner – 18 kills, 5 digs
Kim Bell – 16 kills, 3 digs
Caitlin Ronan – 43 assists, 6 digs
Bailey Jensen – 7 kills, 5 blocks, 4 digs, 4 service aces
Casey Roche – 8 digs
Brea Hewitt – 4 service aces, 3 kills 2 blocks
Mary Kate Gough – 5 digs
Natalie Deffer – 4 service aces
Emily Townsend – 4 kills, 1 block
Chelsea Kaiser – 6 digs
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