CHS Volleyball beats Steeleville, 19-25, 25-23, 25-11
</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[The Chester High School Volleyball Team defeated Steeleville at Colbert Gym Wednesday, September 30. After losing the first game of the series, 19-25, the Yellow Jackets got down to business and won two-in-a-row, 25-23 and 25-11 to win the match.
Megan Atchison was the high scorer for CHS with 20 points served. She also added 13 assists, three aces, two kills and one dig. Tiffani Marshall scored nine points at the serve and had six kills, three blocks and one ace.
Kellie Bert was a real killer against the Lady Warriors with seven kills. She added a pair of assists and a pair of digs to round out her night. Devon Hecht was the blocking queen against Steeleville with eight blocks. Hecht also contributed seven kills and two assists on the night.
The entire Jacket squad brought their shovels against Steeleville. As a unit they the ladies accumulated 49 digs. Led by Shelly Lyons who had 15 digs, eight other Yellow Jackets also contributed. Amy Araiza added 12 digs followed by Taylor Crum (5), Shelby Long (5), Rachel Young (4), Jordan Clendenin (3), Kellie Bert and Jamie Chambers each with two and Megan Atchison with one. The win improved the Varsity Jackets to 8-15 overall.
The CHS JV squad also won, 25-21 and 25-13 making it a sweep of the Warriors. Brittany Schroeder (12) and Megan Marcinkowska (10) paced the Jackets in scoring. Schroeder also added four kills, two blocks, two aces and three digs. Marcinkowska had five digs, two kills, one ace and one assist. The win improved the JV to 5-6 overall.
Coach Jennifer Rheinecker noted after the win, "I thought the girls played much better tonight against Steeleville. In games two and three we started to play as a team. M we passed better and began to hit the ball. Passing was there, sets were there and players were digging up hits off the blocker's hands."
Tuesday the girls lost to Pinckneyville at Pinckneyville, 14-25 and 18-25 to drop to 7-15 overall and 0-3 in the conference. Thursday Chester lost to at Nashville, 5-25 and 21-25 to drop to 8-16 overall and 0-4 in the SIRR Conference.
Coach Rheinecker stated after the Nashville game," I thought the girls played an okay game tonight, but passing was not good and neither was blocking. We constantly played defense. The girls came out swinging and passing much better in the second game and started playing better as a team. Nashville was quick and big but overall it was not a bad night."