COLONY — The Marmaton Valley High School volleyball team fell in both of their matchups at Crest on Tuesday night.
The Wildcats (16-10; 8-4) first lost to St. Paul in three sets, 19-25, 28-26 and 14-25.
Tayven Sutton led Marmaton Valley offensively with eight kills, followed by Janae Granere’s five kills and Payton Scharff and Braelyn Sutton’s four kills apiece. Madison Lawson and Roslyn Houk led at the serving line with two aces each.
Granere went a perfect 100% on serves while Piper Barney went 91.7% from the serving line and Lawson and Houk each went 83.3% in the serving department.
Defensively, Marmaton Valley was led by Granere’s two blocks, followed by Kaitlyn Drake and Tayven Sutton’s one block apiece. Maider Arbulu made 10 digs and Granere knocked nine digs. B. Sutton also chipped in with nine digs and Scharff, Lawson and T. Sutton each ripped six digs.
“As a team we need to focus on serving and moving our feet. The game with St. Paul we had too many missed serves. When we played Crest our serves were better, but we need to move our feet, talk and play as a team,” said Marmaton Valley head coach Sharon Fritch.
Marmaton Valley then came up just short again in their second matchup against Crest in three sets, 17-25, 28-26 and 21-25.
The match saw B. Sutton led the way offensively with seven kills, followed by Granere’s six kills. Barney and T. Sutton also registered five kills apiece. Houk knocked four ace serves as B. Sutton followed suit with three aces.
Barney, Scharff and T. Sutton each went a perfect 100% from the serving line.
Granere led defensively with three total blocks and two solo blocks while Scharff also braced herself for a block. Granere and B. Sutton led with 14 and 11 digs, respectively. Scharff made seven digs while Barney ripped six digs.
Marmaton Valley will now hit the road to battle Chetopa next Tuesday.
