Volleyball Preview: Yorktown Wildcats vs. Schulenburg Shorthorns
The Yorktown Wildcats are taking a road trip to square off against the Schulenburg Shorthorns at 4:00 p.m. on Friday.
Yorktown is probably headed into the match with a chip on their shoulder considering Falls City just ended the team's four-game winning streak on Tuesday. They came up short against the Beavers, falling 3-0.
Yorktown was not held off the scoreboard, but that almost wasn't the case: they kept the first set very close. The final score came out to 25-23, 25-16, 25-14.
Meanwhile, Schulenburg entered their tilt with Shiner on Tuesday with two consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with three. They walked away with a 3-1 victory over the Comanches.
Schulenburg had a slow start but a hot finish: after dropping the first set, they turned around to win the next three. The match finished with set scores of 23-25, 25-12, 25-8, 25-19.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Schulenburg to victory, but perhaps none more so than Michaela Kollmann, who had 21 digs. Kollmann has been hot recently, having posted 12 or more digs the last ten times she's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Avery Helms, who had seven digs and five aces.
She wasn't the only good server: Schulenburg was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 16 aces. That's the most aces they've posted since back in September of 2023.
Yorktown's defeat dropped their record down to 15-10. As for Schulenburg, they pushed their record up to 22-9 with the win, which was their fifth straight at home.
Yorktown suffered a grim 3-0 defeat to Schulenburg when the teams last played back in November of 2015. Can Yorktown avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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