The Dons Boys Volleyballers wrapped up a great regular season with two consecutive hard-fought 5-set wins over strong Las Lomas and Northgate teams last week. The Dons posted a 15-8 overall regular season record including a championship in the Deer Valley Tournament and a 5-5 record in the highly competitive DAL league, which features four of the top 14 teams in all of NCS.
The Dons enter the NCS playoffs as the #3 seed in Division III and will host #14 seed Marin Catholic on Tuesday 5/2 at 7pm in the main gym. Come out and support your Dons!
Dons parents and coaches celebrated our six seniors on Senior Night vs Las Lomas. Pictured below left to right are Aaron Alvira, Liam Stancik, Griffin Ruebner, Liam Hill, and Misha Stewart (not pictured is Joseph Castelli). The Dons played a spirited match with strong contributions from their seniors. Alvira again provided consistently hard serves and excellent sets to outside hitters Ruebner, Hill, and Stewart, who put down numerous kills against the Knights. Stancik held down the middle front-line position to help the Dons pull out the decisive fifth set. Junior Justin Law contributed some strong defense.
Following the senior night victory at home over the Knights, the Dons headed to Walnut Creek to take on the formidable Northgate squad. The Dons opened strong with consecutive wins in the first two sets but then saw the Broncos ride back to win the next two. The Dons rebounded in the deciding fifth set with a 15-12 victory to win the match. Shown below are Matt Law, libero Douglas Roberts, and Liam Hill poised to receive a Northgate serve, followed by Joseph Castelli rising far above the Northgate blockers to deliver one of his many ferocious kills. Miles Thomas is shown unleashing one of his many laser serves before jumping into his setter position. Other big contributions were made by junior middle hitters Evan Sverak and Joe Colachico as well as sophomores Maddox Malm and Avyn Morales, who delivered some critical points in the final and deciding set.
Senior Joseph Castelli climbs above the Broncos blockers and delivers a kill…
Miles Thomas unleashes another hard serve…
