NEODESHA — The Yates Center High School volleyball team dropped a pair of matches against Neodesha and Eureka at Neodesha on Tuesday.
The Wildcats (11-25; 5-7) opened by falling to Eureka in close sets, 25-16 and 25-19.
Kamdyn Trahan led the Yates Center offensive attack with four kills, in front of Grace Westerman’s three kills and Kinley Morrison’s two kills.
Molly Proper and Lauren McConaghie led at the serving line with two ace serves, followed by Emma Grogg, Trahan and Westerman’s one ace apiece. Proper, Trahan and Westerman led with a perfect 100% serving rate while McConaghie registered an 87.5% mark from the serving line and Grogg served to the tune of 83.3%.
Proper led defensively with nine digs, Callyn Miller had eight, Westerman had four and Grogg and McConaghie collected three digs apiece.
“We went up against two very good teams and I felt like we competed. We may not have won the matches, but the girls had some very tough rallies and went point for point with the two teams at varied times in the matches,” said Yates Center head coach Carrie Cummings.
Against Neodesha, Yates Center then let Blue Streaks get ahead even more in set losses of 25-8 and 25-16.
Westerman and Trahan led offensively inmatch with four and three kills, respectively. Kinley Morrison also made two kills. Proper was able to knock two ace serves while Trahan made one ace serve.
Five Wildcats served a perfect 100% from the line including Trahan, McConaghie, Westerman, Morrison and Proper. Grogg also recorded a 66.7% from the serving line.
Defensively, McConaghie, Proper, Trahan and Westerman each knocked four digs while Miller made three digs.
“We are a very capable team. We just have to put all the pieces together,” Cummings said.
Yates Center will compete in the 1A Sub-State at Madison High School on Saturday.
