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The Lansing Girls volleyball team continued its impressive start on Thursday night, September 15th, winning 3 straight games over Whitney Point 25-16  25-20 and 25-16 at Whitney Point, for their 5th consecutive victory to start the season.

Coach Brenda Powers squad used all 13 players over the three games, and his now 15-1 over the first 16 sets of game action.

The Bobcats were led by senior right side hitter Amber Howser, who at one point had 15 consecutive points (6 ace's).  Junior setter Hanna Armstrong contributed 9 service points,8 assists and 5 ace's, while fellow setter, senior Sally Stoyell had 10 service points.
 
The team captured its most significant victory of the season on Monday night (Jan 19th) defeating IAC rival Dryden 3 games to one. The  Lady Bobcats are now a perfect 6 and 0 on the season, 5-0 in conference play.
 
"The team started out strong, did not finish strong in game 3 where we struggled, but finished strong in the fourth" said Powers.

Lansing took games 1 and 2 25-20 and 25-21, dropped the 3rd game 25-14 and then rallied in game 4 for a 25-19 victory. Down 10-5 in that game the Bobcats went on a 16-1 run to lead 21-12 and never looked back. A big key during the comeback was the play of senior setter Sally Stoyell who had 9 consecutive service points.
 
"Sally did an excellent job", said Powers, "at one point she had 9 straight serves for points and another stretch of 5 in a  row."

Coach Powers also noted the depth of the squad as all 13 players saw playing time.

"I have a very deep bench," she noted, " and they have proved that over the last 5 victories."
 
Next up for the Bobcats the first of two highly anticipated matches with defending IAC champ Trumansburg (Thursday 22nd) at home.  The Lansing JV squad fared equally as well, improving to 3 and 2 on the season, taking 2 of 3 games from the Dryden JV 22-25, 25-16 and 26-24.

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