Junior Girls Volleyball Now In Full Swing
By Robert Thomas
It was a big night on Wednesday evening as the local city junior girls volleyball league got underway.
The league was in full swing as 11 teams battled on the court at three different venues - Peacock Collegiate, Riverview Collegiate and Vanier Collegiate.
At Vanier Collegiate Peacock Green, Central Red and Vanier were playing.
At Riverview Collegiate four teams - Riverview, Cornerstone, Avonlea and Central Butte took to the court.
Peacock Toilers Orange
At Peacock Collegiate the Peacock Toilers Orange team had a big evening as they defeated all three opponents in straight sets.
The Peacock Toilers won all three of their matches in two sets against their opponents.
The Toilers Paiytin Dempster watch as a man opponent’s serve goes out of bounds - MJ Independent photo
The Toilers won their match 2 sets to 0 sets against the Central Cyclones Gold team.
Set One the Toilers won 25 - 4.
Set Two the Toilers won 25 - 18.
The Toilers Jorje Hrajczyk goes up to spike the ball - MJ Independent photo
The Toilers had a tough time against the Rouleau Rebels. The Rebels fought to the bitter end in both sets.
Set one the score was 26 - 24 for the Toilers.
Set two had an identical 26 - 24 score for the Toilers.
Rouleau Rebels Madelyn Brown (foreground) jumps in an attempt to spike the ball against two Peacock Toilers defenders - Mj independent photo
In the final matchup the Toilers had an easy time against the Notre Dame Hounds.
The set one score was Toilers 25 and the Hounds 7.
The second set saw the Toilers win with an identical 25 - 7 score.
Rouleau Rebels Dakota Crumley bumps the ball close to the net versus Macy Kunz of the Peacock Toilers - MJ Independent photo
A Peacock Toilers player bumps an opponent’s serve - MJ independent photo
The Jesse Koch bumps the ball - MJ Independent photo
Central Cyclones Gold
The night wasn’t the best for the Central Cyclones Gold team as they only one of their three matchups.
Central Cyclones Elizabeth Beckman sets the ball - mj independent photo
The Cyclones fell against the Peacock Toilers in straight sets 25 - 4 and 25 - 18.
Central Cyclones Warda Mohamed (left) watches as teammate Maddison Kiesman Cayer sets the ball _ MJ Independent photo
Against the Rouleau Rebels the Cyclones once again lost the match in two straight sets.
The set scores were 25 - 14 and 25 - 7 in Rouleau’s favour.
Rouleau Rebels Dakota Crumley (foreground) gets set to smash the ball deep into the Central Cyclones side of the court past two defenders - MJ independent photo
Squaring off against the Notre Dame Hounds the Central Cyclones faired much better taking the match in two street sets.
The first set score was Central 25 and Notre Dame 23.
The second set score was Central 25 and Notre Dame 17.
Central Cyclones Karlie Bergdahl (left) bumps the ball to set up teammate Tess Cuetbach - mj independent photo
Central Cyclones Evelyn Eros (right) attempts to pass the ball to her teammate Elizabeth Beckman - mj independent photo
Central Cyclones WARDA MOHAMED attempts to overhand lob the ball over the net.
Notre Dame Hounds
On the scoresheet, it was not a good night for the Notre Dame Hounds.
The Hounds would lose all three matchups they had in straight sets.
The set scores in the match against Peacock were 25 - 7 and 25 - 7 in Peacock’s favour.
The matchup between Central Cyclones was closest the Hounds came to winning a set.
The Hounds would lose the first set 25 - 23.
The second set saw the Hounds lose 25 - 17.
The matchup against the Rouleau Rebels saw the Hounds lose 25 - 15 and 25 - 10.
Notre Dame Hounds player Shannon (right) dives to bump the ball as opponent Mikayla looks on - MJ Independent photo
A Notre Da me Hounds player bumps the ball - MJ independent photo
Rouleau Rebels
The highlight of the night was the match between the Rebels and the Toilers Orange team.
The two sets saw both teams be aggressive around the net as well as strong passing and serving.
Rallies were longer with the serve, alternating back-and-forth between the two teams.
Despite a valiant effort in the end the Rebels fell 26 - 24 in the first set.
The second set would end with the same 26 - 24 result with Peacock scoring, the winning point when the Rebels returned the ball out of bounds.
The Rouleau Rebels played a tough and aggressive style with much of the work done around the net - mj independent photo
The Rebels won two sets 25 - 14 and 25 - 7 to win their match against the Central Cyclones Gold team.
Versus the Notre Dame Hounds the Rebels once again won the match in two straight sets with scores of 25 - 15 and 25 - 10 in the Rebels favour.
Results from the other seven junior girls volleyball active on Wednesday evening were unavailable at publication time.