No Fear on Halloween, Dons Roll

The Acalanes Dons Girls Volleyball team hosted Hercules High School in the first round of the NCS playoffs last night. The girls were pumped to see the student turnout on Halloween night! Dons Nation showed up and the team started strong in game 1:

2-1 Sauer bullet Ace. Scary Skittle

4-1 Kennedy Cornish middle finds the floor

5-1 Syd Sowarby nice dig. Risch rewards with a Hot Tamale

6-1 Erin Meade kill

7-1 Cornish and Meade combine for block

8-1 Meade roof.  No treats for you Hercules.  

9-3 Nice Web set to middle. Cornish kills it.

11-4 Risch block

13-5 Wood straight down.  Kabam

15-8 Sauer kill

18-10 Meade rip and the defense can’t get there. Score. Spooked.

19-11 Risch kill

21-12 Overpass to Wood. Yum-my!

23-13 Webster dump take Hercules by surprise

25-13 Cornish off the defenders hands. Frightful.

Game 2 was more of the same:

1-0 Cornish kill

2-0 Annika Olson kill off bloci

3-0 Meade kill

4-0 Webster ace

7-1 Olson ace

9-1 Olson again

10-3 Wood kill

11-3 Risch kill

12-3 Wood kill

14-4 Risch ace

15-8 Webster kill

18-8 Olson tip

21-10 Webster sneaky dump

22-10 Meade kill

23-11 Meade kill

24-11 Cornish kill

And in Game 3:

1-0 Webster kill

2-0 Aly Kirke roof

3-1 Olivia Elliott kill

5-1 Olson ace

6-3 Elena Needs kill

7-3 Elliott kill

9-3 Kirke ace

10-3 Elliott kill

11-3 Kirke ace

12-3 Kirke ace #3

14-4 Elliott on fire! Another kill off a super Sowarby pass

15-4 Risch kill

16-4 Elliott ace

Dons cruise to a 25-12 victory and take the match 3-0!

The Dons host the Moreau Catholic Mariners of Hayward in the second round of the NCS playoffs on Saturday, November 2, at 7:00 p.m.  See you there!

Bracket: http://www.cifncs.org/sports/volleyball/Volleyball_Results_History/2019/VBgDiv3bracket.pdf