Upper Dublin hosted CB South in boys volleyball. For Upper Dublin this was their senior night for the team. Upper Dublin won the match in 5 sets (17-25, 25-22, 25-20, 22-25, and 15-12). The match went back and forth the entire way. After all the pregame festivities, CB South jumped out to an early lead in the first game and held that lead to a win for game one. We did gain some momentum at the end of the game and carried that over to game 2 in which we were able to win by a slim margin. In game 3 we were playing well and maintained the advantage for most of the game and ended up winning and having the 2-1 advantage. In the 4th game, it was a back and forth game with good serving and passing mistakes from both teams leading to runs in points. CB South was able to win the 4th game and send the match to a deciding game 5. The 5th game started out to our advantage after Dave An started the game with 3 straight points and giving us the early advantage in a short game to 15. CB South to their credit got the serve back and pressured us as well by taking the lead back. After a timeout, Upper Dublin responded well and was determined not to lose this game. After getting the serve back at 8-12, both of our outside hitters took the game over with serving and hitting. Dror Bareket went back to serve and served out the game with 7 straight points off of serve. Our blockers were getting up big and we were playing good defense behind them and transitioning those digs into points. At 14-12, and after another good dig, senior Jordan Walden ended the match with a strong spike that CB South was unable to dig.

Stats:

Serving – Junior Dror Bareket led the serving with 10 points and 3 aces (7 points, 2 aces in the final game). The seniors also stepped up on their night with Jordan Walden having 10 points no aces, Curtis Carter with 9 points and 1 ace, and Dave An with 8 points and 1 ace.

Setting – Senior setter Dave An went the distance in this match and recorded 50 assists and spread the ball around effectively.

Hitting – Jordan Walden led the attack hitting and had 23 kills, Dror Bareket also had 14 kills, middle blockers Curtis Carter and Avery Jackson both ended up with 11 kills, and opposite Brian Day had 9 kills.

Blocking – Curtis Carter led the team with 11 blocks followed by fellow middle Avery Jackson with 10. Brian Day playing out of opposite also had a big night at the net recording 7 blocks.

Passing – Dror Bareket really played inspired out of the back court and led the team with 26 digs, Jordan Walden and libero Jon Lee also helped to solidify the passing and defense recording 16 and 12 digs respectively.