Madison McMillan had a stellar match Tuesday, sparking the Wolf JV to a straight-sets win. (Photos by JohnsPhotos.net)
Madison McMillan had the magic touch.
Firing off 19 service aces Tuesday — most by any Coupeville High School spiker this season — the Wolf freshman sparked the JV volleyball team as it crushed visiting Concrete.
The CHS young guns combined to pepper the Lions with 33 aces overall during a 25-10, 25-11, 25-20 romp.
The win lifts Coupeville to 6-0 in Northwest 2B/1B League play, 7-1 overall.
For half a second it looked like Tuesday’s match might be a close one, with Concrete jumping out to a 3-1 lead in the opening set.
Don’t believe first impressions.
Grey Peabody broke the brief spell, winning a tip war at the net to reclaim serve for the Wolves, and then McMillan went nuclear.
The fab frosh won 13 straight points on her serve, spinning aces left, right, deep, and just over the net – with one laser shot exploding upward off a Concrete player’s arm to tattoo the unlucky Lion in the face.
Turning a 3-2 deficit into a 14-3 lead, McMillan cracked things wide open, and the Wolves ran free after that.
Mia Farris and Jada Heaton had shorter, but still very-successful runs at the line in the first set, while McMillan smashed one especially-nasty kill at the net, then flexed for a brief second as her teammates went wild.
By the time Taylor Brotemarkle zinged a nasty ace to cap the set, all the momentum was on Coupeville’s side of the court.
And it stayed that way throughout the second set, with Peabody controlling the net, while Gwen Gustafson started dropping bombs from all angles.
Gwen Gustafson brings the heat.
Heaton ran off four straight points on her serve to set the table, but it was McMillan (who else?) who closed the set with a run of nine consecutive points from the stripe.
With the match already decided, the two squads played a third set for practice, and, other than a brief burp late, it was much like everything else which had come before.
Brotemarkle, McMillan, Issabel Johnson, and Katie Marti delivered dagger after dagger on their serve as CHS built a 20-9 lead, but Concrete had one last rally in its back pocket.
The Lions, playing their best ball of the night, actually got all the way back within 22-19 before Coupeville slammed the door shut.
McMillan and Marti, the mighty mashers, both delivered withering kills to finally seal the three-set sweep, earning a nod of approval from coach Asley Menges.
Tuesday stats:
Taylor Brotemarkle — 5 aces
Mia Farris — 1 kill, 2 aces
Gwen Gustafson — 3 kills, 2 digs
Jada Heaton — 2 kills, 1 dig, 3 aces
Issabel Johnson — 1 kill, 1 assist, 2 aces
Katie Marti — 2 kills, 1 dig, 5 assists, 2 aces
Madison McMillan — 2 kills, 19 aces
Grey Peabody — 2 kills, 1 solo block
