Varsity Volleyball: Broncos Can Not Handle the Dons Heat

On Thursday the Acalanes Girls Varsity volleyball team traveled to Northgate -Varsity Team Bucks the Broncos for the WIN

The Dons came ready to play in game 1:

1-0 Senior Rachel Zhang ace

2-0

3-0 Zhang ace again

4-0

5-4 Junior Hanna Hageboeck kill stops the Northgate rally

8-6 Junior KatelynOlin ace

9-6 Hageboeck Kill

11-7 Senior Aly Kirke block

12-8 Kirke kill

13-8 freshman Maelin Mason kill…SHE’S A FRESHMAN!

14-8 incredible dive kill by Libero Georgia Winkles

15-8 kill by Mason timeout Northgate!

17-14 Hageboeck kill after Acalanes drought

18-14 Sophomore Jade Profilio’s ace silences the Broncos’ student section 

19-14

21-17 junior Ryann Jones monster kill!

22-17 Kirke kill on the overpass timeout Northgate 

23-17 Sophomore Monica Dikova ace, a boisterous Broncos student body can’t rattle the Dons sophomores. Fear the BLUE!

23-20 Timeout Dons

24-20 Kirke tip!

25-20 Jones ace for win!

The Dons picked up where they left off in Game 2:

1-0 Hageboeck kill into 2 blocks 

2-0 Olin kill

3-0

4-0

5-0 Zhang dig out of net leads to point

6-1 Hageboeck kill

7-4 Kirke kill thwarts the Bronco rally 

10-6 Winkles ace

11-6 Mason kill

12-8 Mason diving dig for a point

14-10 Profilio ace

15-12

15-16 timeout dons 

16-17 Jones kill

17s Jones again

17-18

17-19

18-20

19-21 Long rally, then a Mason kill

19-25 Broncos pull away

The Dons regrouped for the start of Game 3:

1-0 Zhang ace

3-0 Mason kill

4-2

4-8 Northgate run

6-9 Kirke kill

7-9 Jones kill

8-9 Dikova Ace

9-9 ace Dikova

10-9 Ace Dikova again!

11-10 Kirke stuff 

12-10

13-12

14-12 Winkles ace

15-14 Junior Apple Walton kill

18-17 Olin ace

19-18 Jones kill

20-18 Kirke kill

20-19 

21-20 Walton clutch kill

22-20 Mason kill! timeout Broncos!

23-20 Kirke tip

24-20 Mason kill

25-20 Mason for win!

Game 4 was a long, exciting nailbiter:

1-0 Hageboeck block!

2-0 Olin tip

3-1 Kirke block!

6-3 Kirke block

8-5 Kirke block

10-6 

11-10 Broncos go into the net

12-11 Broncos serve out

13-11 Jones clever tip

14-11 Libero Winkles kill

15-12 Jones kill

16-13 Kirke block

17-14 Kirke/Jones block 

19-14 Kirke kill

19-17 Timeout Dons

20-17

20-18

21-18 Olin big kill!

21-22 Timeout Dons

22-22 Olin with the kill out of the timeout

23-22

25-25 Kirke kill thwarts Broncos’ game point 

26-26

27-26 the senior Kirke for the kill and the lead

28-26 and the freshman Mason kill for match win!  The Dons bench clears for celebration on the court!

The Dons will are building on their momentum next week when they travel to Alhambra on Tuesday and to Campolindo on Thursday.