South Greene hit the road and made a successful trip to Baileyton by carrying out a 3-1 (25-11, 25-16, 17-25, 25-17) win over North Greene on Thursday night.
The Lady Rebels started hot and dominated the first set, but the Lady Huskies punched back with a competitive second set before winning the third. South Greene powered forward when North Greene showed fatigue and outlasted them with a fourth set win to leave Baileyton with a District 1-A victory.
“We’re excited to win. Especially right now. W’s are hard for us to come by here lately. I feel like my team is improving. We went with a different rotation in set one and we really controlled that whole set. Then sometimes coaches overthink things and I made some changes I probably look back on over in sets two and three. But set four I went back to what we did in the first set,” South Greene Head Coach Stephen Gregg stated.
Emma Padgett was dominant all evening and proved her value with double-digit kills for the Rebels.
“She was really on it today. She was hitting spots. She sees the floor well. If there was an overpass I feel like she was swiping it back in the right spots,” Coach Gregg said.
South Greene breezed through the first set and opened up with a 6-0 lead before you knew it. Padgett earned a pair of kills in that run and Kortnei Bailey’s service work was rewarded with an ace to cap off the run.
North Greene’s Josie Graham landed a spike to end it, but Padgett responded with two more kills to make it 9-1. Tralyn Southerland and Matti Phillips collected a kill each to cut it to 10-4.
The duo of Padgett and Bailey helped push the Lady Rebels ahead 15-5 after Padgett collected three aces and Bailey pounded a shot over the net. South Greene led by as much as twelve before Southerland found the back corner for a point.
Padgett was too much to handle on the back end and delivered two more kills to end the first set and come away with a 25-11 win.
North Greene gave them more of a battle in the second set and it started with Cadie McDevitt’s block to hand the Lady Huskies a 1-0 lead to begin. Soon enough, Padgett came along with three-straight kills to push South Greene ahead 3-1. Whitney Reaves slammed a pair over the net for South Greene’s next two kills.
The Lady Huskies went on a 4-1 run to take an 8-7 lead and it soon reached 11-9 after Southerland was credited with a kill. Graham stuffed a ball at the net to keep them ahead 12-11 before South Greene jumped back out front with a kill by Padgett.
Matti Phillips kept it at a one-point game with a kill but Padgett delivered another kill and another ace backed by a kill from Kortnei Bailey. Phillips snapped South Greene’s run of five-straight with a kill.
South Greene ran away with the set and won six of the last seven to win the second set 25-16.
In the third set Padgett set the tone with two-straight kills to hand South Greene a 2-0 lead, but North Greene turned things around and won nine-straight and took a commanding lead. Graham started with a kill followed by Southerland with a kill and Chloe Keys with an ace. Graham caught fire and delivered back-to-back points on two separate occasions to help North Greene build a 10-3 lead.
“We had a bad start in the third set where we fell behind like 7-2, 8-2. A sign of a good team is they’ll come back and hopefully in a month we’ll come back and be winning those games,” Coach Gregg mentioned.
Kills from Padgett, Reaves, and Bailey cut it to 12-7 and an ace from Keasley Hankins cut it even closer to 12-10.
Phillips and Graham worked together to extend the Lady Huskies’ lead back out to five with Phillips gaining a kill and Graham earning a pair of kills to make it 16-11. Another ace from Keys and one from Graham made it 20-14. Kyleigh Saulsberry was clutch at the end of the third with a block at the net and a kill on the next volley. Phillips provided the last two points and helped North Greene narrow the score to 2-1 with a 25-17 advantage in the third.
South Greene shook off the third-set loss and came back with a vengeance to win the fourth set and end the match. Padgett worked hard above the net with two early kills to make it 6-4. North Greene looked like they were turning the clock back to just a few short moments ago with a 7-0 run to capture the lead for a brief minute. Graham added a kill, Keys collected yet another ace, and Southerland landed a kill inbounds. Bailey ended the run and then stepped to the service line and delivered an ace for South Greene
Emma Padgett took over and made a statement by scoring nine of South Greene’s next thirteen points to effectively put the game out of reach.
“Emma had a monster rotation there where she had about five or six kills in a row,” Gregg commented.
The Lady Rebels finished the fourth set with a 25-17 win and left Baileyton satisfied with a 3-1 match victory on Thursday night.
North Greene travels to West Greene next on Tuesday for an important District 1-1A matchup. South Greene hosts Chuckey-Doak on Monday in a non-district county game.
South Greene picked up a key Distict 1-1A win, 3-1, win over North Greene on the road on Thursday night. Hear from Lady Rebels Head Coach Stephen Gregg after the win. pic.twitter.com/bBk79uSB9f
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