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The streaking Lansing girls varsity volleyball team made it 4 consecutive IAC victories on Thursday, September 13th, downing Whitney Point in 3 games, 25-15, 25-21 and 25-12 at home.

Overall it was a balanced effort, as coach Brenda Powers used all twelve of her players to build depth for the IAC stretch run. In game 1 there were two ties and 3 lead changes early on before Lansing took control on senior Keara Lowenhar's sharp return and junior Sam Detrick's power hit to lead 12-9.

All conference senior Hannah Armstrong took over with two timely "push" shots, Lowenhar added a kill and senior Shalyn Watson's kill made it 18-11.  The Lansing balanced offense rolled on with Senior Jada Gooch firing home two late aces, in total the Cats scored 6 of the final 7 points to close out the frame.

In game 2 coach Powers started 5 new players from her bench and early on there were 3 ties and lead changes.  The fine serving of senior Meghan Judd gave the home team a 14-6 lead. Judd would follow with 2 aces in between a Kelsey Thomas kill for a 16-7 advantage. With the margin at 19-10 the visiting Eagles scored 10 unanswered points to take the lead at 20-19. Two consecutive Sam Detrick returns tipped over the net for scores to make it 22-20 and fellow junior Annie Reynolds had a nice return and a game ending kill in the come from behind 4 point victory.

With the regular starters back for game 3 the Bobcats could not pull away early, despite two "Jump" aces by Hannah Armstrong to lead 6-4. From there it was consecutive Keara Lowenhar aces and two more from Jada Gooch to push the margin to 12-6.  The Cats then went on a 7-0 spurt with Kelsey Thomas and Shalyn Watson leading the way, the latter with another "jump" ace. Leading 19-10 the cats never looked back as Thomas closed out the match with a jump ace and long serve and a 13 point triumph.

For the night  Armstrong paced the winners with 5 kills, 5 assists and 3 aces. Gooch added 5 aces and 3 kills with Detrick chipped in with 3 aces and 5 kills. At 4-1 on the season and momentum on their side Lansing travels to Groton on Tuesday the 18th for another key IAC contest.

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