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Intercity volleyball: Saints snare second in Corn Belt
Megan Schmidt and Stephanie Buhrow combined for 24 kills to drive the Central Catholic High School volleyball team past Prairie Central, 25-19, 23-25, 25-21, at Fairbury on Thursday night. Megan Fitzgerald added 14 service points and Kristyn Mysker 15 assists for the Saints (20-9, 12-2), who finished second in the Corn Belt. Schmidt also had nine digs and three blocks. Kenber Galloway had seven kills and 14 digs for Prairie Central (11-17-2, 3-11). Teammate Kari Diller chipped in 13 assists. Bloomington wins Big 12 title The Bloomington High School volleyball team clinched its first outright Big 12 Conference championship since 1995 with a 25-17, 25-23 victory over Champaign Central Thursday night at Champaign. Seven kills, nine digs and two aces by Georgia Tech recruit Ashley Beyer helped BHS improve to 30-4 overall and 9-0 in the Big 12. “The kids have worked hard all year and deserve that,” said BHS coach Joe Sanders. “I’m glad we got that done.” The Purple Raiders need four victories to tie last year’s school record for wins in a season. Kasey Heckelman added six kills, two blocks and two aces while Latrice Wood chipped in six kills. Illinois State recruit Kristin Stauter had 22 assists and Lauren Seyller eight service points. Champaign Central fell to 18-9 and 4-5. U High claims Corn Belt title University High won the Corn Belt Conference championship outright with a 25-7, 25-15 win over host Rantoul, improving to 14-0 in the league and 28-6 overall. Taylor Bruns recorded 14 service points and five kills to lead the way. “This win feels really good,” said U High coach Cathy Sanders, whose team shared the title last year with Mahomet-Seymour. “It is great to accomplish a team goal going into postseason play. Our team cohesion is a big factor.” Jordan Bond and Carly Schumacher each added five kills for U High and Maggie Bee put up 11 assists while Ashlee Sang provided10 digs. U High’s win total is its best since the 2000 Class A state title team went 41-1. NCHS takes 2nd in Big 12 Jackie Gerig handed out 17 assists and Jenny Menendez had nine kills and seven service points to lead Normal Community to a 25-15, 25-11 win at Urbana. The Ironmen (25-7, 8-1) received 12 kills from Paige Lay. Normal West tops Danville Laura Wilcox and Trish Waibel celebrated senior night with 10 kills each as Normal West (22-12, 6-3) defeated Danville, 25-9, 25-16, at Normal. Kelly Jacobs added 15 service points with two aces and teammate Kelsey Detweiler recorded 13 digs. Get area high school sports scores and statistics at Varsity Sports. E-mail this story | Print this story | Search archives | RSS Show comments |  Hide comments | Hide comments on all stories |
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