Volleyball Recap: Taylor Trent Leads a Balanced Attack to Beat Umatilla

By Team Reports Sep 29, 2024, 5:18pm

Volleyball Recap: Burns Hilanders vs. Umatilla Vikings

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Burns waltzed into their contest on Friday with six straight wins... but they left with seven. They put the hurt on the Umatilla Vikings with a sharp 3-0 victory. That's more bragging rights for the Hilanders, who also won the pair's last head-to-head.

Not only was the match a shutout, it was a big one: Burns took every set by at least 16 points. The final score came out to 25-9, 25-9, 25-2.

Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Burns to victory, but perhaps none more so than Taylor Trent, who had eight aces. The dominant performance gave Trent a new career-high in aces. The team also got some help courtesy of Chloe Rothwell, who had four aces and 11 assists.

She wasn't the only good server: Burns was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 32 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least seven aces in four consecutive games.

Burns is on a roll lately: they've won eight of their last nine matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 20-3-2 record this season. As for Umatilla, they are on a 27-game losing streak (dating back to last season) that has dropped them down to 0-9.

Burns didn't take long to hit the court again: they've already played their next match, a 3-0 win vs. Riverside on the 27th. As for Umatilla, they will venture away from home to face off against McLoughlin at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday.

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