Indians fall to Blue Devils
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SALINEVILLE -- Lisbon downed Southern, 25-22, 25-11, 26-24, in Eastern Ohio Athletic Conference play Thursday.
Both teams are 5-12 overall with Lisbon 3-7 in the EOAC and Southern 3-8.
The Blue Devils -- who rallied from a six-point deficit in the third game -- was led by Alayna Householder with 12 kills, seven points and three aces. Bridget Newbold totaled 25 assists and seven points, Addison Anderson five points and seven kills, Gionna Lenigar five kills and three blocks, Ariel Smith 13 digs, Aria Reckner five points and six digs and Hannah Davis five points and five digs. Lilly Lipply and Brooklynn Klein battled at the net all night with Lenigar.
Eliana Forbes topped the Indians with eight points and 14 assists. Delaney Beadnell had 12 assists, Kiah Sloan and Kalayah Crute each had seven kills and two blocks, Natalia Lopez seven kills and Kenzie Sloan one kill and one solo block.
Players wore pink for breast cancer awareness or orange for leukemia awareness.
Lisbon also won the junior varsity match, 25-23, 25-20.
Kyler Malone led the Blue Devils with six kills, seven points and four aces; Emmy Haynes four kills, two assists and two digs; Carrie Hager three kills and three blocks; Gracyn Owens 11 assist, five kills and three aces; and Johanna Ford and Kylyn Boyd combined for 13 digs.
For the Indians, Emma Boyle had six kills, Payton Davison three kills and two blocks and Addison Andrenok seven assists.
Lisbon hosts Steubenville Central at 11 a.m. Saturday. Southern travels to River on Monday.
EAST PALESTINE 3, WELLSVILLE 1
WELLSVILLE -- East Palestine is back in the Eastern Ohio Athletic Conference volleyball title chase.
The Bulldogs got its 13th win by downing Wellsville, 22-25, 25-11, 25-15, 25-23, Thursday.
East Palestine improves to 13-5 overall and 8-2 in the Eastern Ohio Athletic Conference, trailing 10-1 Columbiana and 9-1 United. East Palestine still has to play Columbiana and United again.
Wellsville drops to 6-10 and 3-6 in league play.
Destiney Burtyk had 15 kills, 10 digs, seven points and four aces and Kennedy Andre had 28 assists, 16 points and six aces for the Bulldogs. Emma Gingher collected six kills, seven points and two aces, Marley Blythe five kills and 11 digs and Violet Glavan six kills and six digs.
Both teams play Monday with East Palestine hosting Warren Harding and Wellsville entertaining Lowellville.