36th District Volleyball:

Highlands, NC to play for Title:

The Highlands Bluebirds (13-21) and Newport Central Catholic Thoroughbreds (15-16) handled their 36th District semifinal opponents on Tuesday to advance to the title game Wednesday. NewCath is the tournament host.

Highlands beat Dayton, 3-0 (25-12, 25-16, 25-16) and NewCath downed Bellevue, 3-0 (25-13, 25-6, 25-16). The title game takes place at 7 p.m.

NewCath soundly won the regular season contest, 3-0 on Oct. 7. NewCath has won 16 of the last 17 meetings.

Rachel McDonald led NewCath with 10 kills with teammates Keyaira Lankheit and Nikki Kiernan following with nine each. Alyssa Maier followed with 30 assists with Alexa Kehoe recording seven aces and Amanda Ruwe six digs.

Both teams lost in the 9th Region quarterfinals last year. Prior to that in the old 10th Region, NewCath won six straight crowns and Highlands won it in 2004.

 

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NewCath So. Alexa Kehoe with 18 straight serving points in 2nd game last night. :thumb: