The Chesnee volleyball team swept the Camden Bulldogs 3-0 to advance to the third round of the AAA playoffs on Monday night.
"It feels good because it's my senior year and I want to make the best of it,” said Chesnee senior Anna Sullivan. “We want to push until the end as a team." Camden jumped out to the initial lead in set one and was able to extend their lead to two on two different occasions. The Eagles were able to finally take control of the first set when they regained the lead at 12-11 and they closed the set on a 15-4 run to win 25-15. "When we are aggressive we can take teams out of their system and that's what we tried to do,” said Chesnee coach Anna Sullivan. “We were aggressive with our serves and our hitting and it made it to where they couldn't run their system as effectively." Chesnee quickly took control of the second set as they jumped out to a 10-2 lead in the early going. Anna Sullivan served six consecutive points to give the Lady Eagles a 21-9 lead as the Eagles went on to win the set 25-12. The Bulldogs won the first point in the third set but Chesnee started to pull away by winning seven of the next eight points. Abbey Ray was big in the third set as she served fifteen straight points to help lead the Lady Eagles to a 25-8 win in the final set. Chesnee had a well balanced attack as they recorded thirty-one assists on thirty-four kills as AC Yelton led the way with seventeen assists and Holly Hines added ten more. The Eagles were able to spread out the kills as well on the offensive attack as seven different Eagles collected a kill with four players having five or more. Abbey Ray led the team with thirteen kills. "The key to our setting is having so many hitters that we feel comfortable setting the ball to,” said Jolley. “When you have that many options the blockers can't key in on a particular player." Several Eagles players had good night's defensively as Chesnee had thirty-five digs as a team with five players having at least five digs. Kaitlyn Barrett led the way with eight digs as Abbey Ray and Shelby Harris each collected six digs. "With all five of them having five or more digs it tells me everybody was moving and playing defense,” said Jolley. Senior Anna Sullivan had a solid night as she had five kills with a pair of service aces and a pair of digs. "It feels good to be consistent,” said Sullivan. “I have worked really hard to get better this year." Chesnee will travel to Powdersville on Wednesday at 6:00pm and the winner will advance to the Upper State Championship game. Comments are closed.
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