The Chesnee Lady Eagles picked up a big region win over the rival Chapman Lady Panthers on Thursday evening to give the Lady Eagles a perfect 4-0 region record and sole possession of first place.
"It feels great and I think the girls feel the same way," said Chesnee head coach Katie Jolley. "There is just a huge relief off of our shoulders. They were successful this past weekend and I think that rolled over into tonight." In a matchup of two teams that were both 3-0 in region play, the Eagles jumped out to a 10-1 lead in the first set as they reeled off nine straight points forcing the Panthers to call a timeout. The Panthers would respond by winning five of the next seven points to pull within six points of the Eagles. The Eagles were able to stall the Panther's rally before they could get any closer and were able to pull out a 25-19 win in the first set to give the Eagles ten straight set wins in region play. Jessa Beach had a big block at the net to help the Eagles regain momentum. Kaitlyn Barrett and Abbey Ray came up big in the first set as each had five kills while Shelby Harris had five digs and AC Yelton added six assists. Game two started off in the Panthers favor as they jumped out to a 10-5 lead in the early portion of the set. AC Yelton and the Lady Eagles answered back with a 13-0 run with twelve of those points coming while Yelton was controlling the serve to give the Lady Eagles a 17-11 lead. The run propelled the Lady Eagles to a 25-17 win in the second set. Ray and Yelton once again led the Lady Eagles as Ray had eight kills and Yelton had seven assists while Holly Hines also came up big with four key assists in the set. The Lady Eagles once again jumped out to an early lead in the third set as they grabbed an 8-2 lead and held on to win the third set 25-7 by winning fourteen of the final seventeen points. "It always helps when facing a great team like Chapman to get ahead early," said Jolley. "We wanted to get ahead early and keep that momentum." The Lady Eagles had a huge game defensively in game three as they combined for eighteen digs as a team with Shelby Harris leading the way with six. Harris and Kaitlyn Barrett both finished with double-digit digs for the Lady Eagles as Harris finished with thirteen and Barrett had twelve digs while also adding eight kills. Abbey Ray nearly had a double-double as she had sixteen kills and nine digs to go along with three aces. AC Yelton finished with a team high eighteen assists while also adding four kills and two service aces. Holly Hines nearly had double-digit assists as she finished second on the team with nine. The win caps off a big stretch for the Eagles as they also won the Eastside Invitational this past Saturday. The Eagles will begin the second half of region play on Tuesday as they host Southside. Comments are closed.
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