Lady Bears pick up two wins
The BCHS volleyball girls have been out of hibernation, freely roaming to any gym that will host them about any day of the week. With rain and wind set in a from the Helene back on the 27th of September, the Lady Bears found their way up to Cloverport for a match, which they would sweep by the scores of 25-11, 25-9, and 25-17.
Service aces were spread around fairly equal. Samie Johnson led the way with five. Johnson paced the Bears with ten assists, also. Jenelle Kimmel, Elivia Heard, and Miley Franzell aced the Lady Aces four times, apiece. Franzell racked up eight kills along the way while Johnson contributed five in the category of kills. Franzell and Kimmel both had a solo block.
Miley Franzell terminated the ball on this swing
About a week following, the Lady Bears trekked down the interstate to Foundation Christian Academy, who the Bears had beaten early in the year, for a competitive match. The opening set was tight; but, the Bears were able to pull away with the 25-22 win. FCA lashed back in the second set to win, 25-18, only to get blasted in the third and final set, 25-13.
Franzell’s stat line once again stood out with 12 kills, two unassisted blocks, five digs, and four aces. Kimmel, who had four kills, was a jumping jack at the net, blocking five Lady Falcon attempts to score. Johnson doubled her assists from the Cloverport match with a whopping, 20. Isabella-Marie Kelley dug out 12 of the Lady Falcons balls about to score; and, Maddie Jones reached double-digit kills with ten.
Isabella-Marie Kelley slides to a knee to make the pass to the setter
The Lady Bears (4-25) will take a break from the road until they come back from fall break with games on Monday and Tuesday, the 14th and 15th, at Franklin-Simpson and Barren County. Then, on Thursday the 17th, the Lady Bears will recognize their only senior, Elivia Heard, as they host the Hart County Lady Raiders to end the regular season.
The 12th District Tournament will be held at BCHS soon after regular season. Butler County will play the #1 seed, Whitesville Trinity, who have won three straight sets in both matches this season versus the Lady Bears. However, bigger upsets have happened in BCHS’s gymnasium. Maybe not in volleyball, but over twenty years ago, shortly after it was built, the Courier Journal called it the greatest upset in Kentucky high school sports history when a similar record-wise Bears basketball team beat the Muhlenberg North Stars, who had been ranked #1 in the state at one point in that 1992-93 season.
