SPORTS: Crescent out-duels Quilcene in volleyball; other prep results

Peninsula Daily News

QUILCENE — The Crescent Loggers earned a hard-fought 3-0 non-league volleyball victory over the Quilcene Rangers, winning by scores of 25-16, 25-17 and 25-21.

Crescent coach Alex Baker came away impressed with both teams.

“That was the best Quilcene time I’ve seen in 10 years,” Baker said.

“We played our best match all year.”

The Loggers were led by seniors Bonnie Hazelett and Jandi Frantz.

Hazelett was 11 for 12 serving, with six aces. She also had five kills and one tip for point.

Frantz had three aces on 15 of 16 serving, to go along with two blocks and two kills.

Also for Crescent, junior setter Devanie Christie served a perfect 19 for 19 with two aces and 16 assists; and Sophomore Shannon Williams was 7 for 7 serving with four aces, four blocks one tip and eight kills.

Baker was particularly satisfied with the Loggers’ 92 percent serving success. They had 18 aces and only six misses.

“Any time you double aces to misses, you did really good,” Baker said.

Quilcene coach Joni Corey is proud of her team’s effort

and progress.

“This was a great experience,” Corey said.

“Crescent has some very strong hitters and servers that will help us get ready for league play.

“Our serve receive and defense skills have improved, we just need to improve our serving.

“Our team is just starting to play together and there were some moments that really showed what our future program will look like.”

That bright future was evident in the play of some of the Rangers’ sophomore Sammy Rae and freshmen Megan Weller, Alex Johnson and Elysha Schryver.

Rae was 9 for 10 serving with three aces, seven kills and two blocks.

Setter and captain Weller was 4 for 4 serving and had five assists.

Libero Johnson was 6 for 6 serving with five digs.

Setter Schryver served 4 aces in a row in the third game keeping Quilcene in the game.

“This was a great building block towards a big game Thursday against Port Townsend,” Baker said.

The Loggers next face the Redskins in Port Townsend on Thursday.

The Rangers will also be in action Thursday on the road against Clallam Bay.

Vashon Island 3,

Chimacum 2

CHIMACUM — The Cowboys fell at home to the Pirates in a five-game Nisqually League affair.

After Vashon Island took the first two games by scores of 25-16 and 25-23, the Cowboys responded to force a fifth game by winning 25-20 and 25-23.

In the deciding game, the Pirates out-dueled Chimacum 15-11.

For the Cowboys (1-3), Lauren Thacker had 14 kills, three blocks and seven digs; Alyssa Hamilton had eight kills and nine digs; and Megan Dukek was 29 for 29 serving with five aces 14 digs and 22 assists.

Olivia Baird contributed 13 digs and eight kills; Kiersten Snyder had four kills, two blocks and two assists; and Sienna Madary and Lexie Cray both had 10 digs.

Audrey Thacker contributed three blocks and one kill in her first varsity start as a middle blocker.

Chimacum plays at Cascade Christian today.

Boys Tennis

Sequim 6,

Olympic 1

SEQUIM — The Wolves improved their Olympic League record to 2-0 by beating the Trojans.

Sequim (5-1 overall) was dominant in the singles matches.

Donovan Lee defeated Darren Towne, 6-0, 6-2; Issaiah Dewan defeated John Satak, also 6-0, 6-2; and Victor Lam beat Curtis Geise, 6-1, 6-0.

The doubles winners for the Wolves were Saul Nava and Brandon Payne (No. 2), Kevin Cassal and Dan Willis (No. 3) and Aran Burke and Royhon Agostine (No. 4).

Sequim hosts North Kitsap today.

Girls Soccer

Adna 7, Forks 1

ADNA — The Spartans lost to the Pirates in a game that was closer than the final score.

“Defensively, we gave up a few easy goals,” Forks coach Andrew Peterson said.

“It probably should have been about 4-1.”

The Spartans’ lone goal was scored by Corina Gatan in the 18th minute.

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