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Zanesville Blue Devils Lady Dawg volleyball nets pair

hoping to gain ground on the of wins in first week of 2024

road after falling in first two season by Gregg Meadows

home games by Matthew Dotson

Addison Wilson attacks the volleyball as her teammates Liv Reffitt and Haley Moore get set
to defend a rebound. Matthew Dotson

Blue Devil’s Michael Reese plans his path down field. Logan Dotson Coach Dani Lamonica and her Tri- On Tuesday night, August 27 at
Valley varsity volleyball team defeated Sheridan, the Lady Dawgs dropped the
Vs St. Clairsville (8/30) With the anticipation of a new season Maysville and Crooksville, but fell to Hill- first set to the perennial Muskingum
iard Davidson, Sheridan and River View Valley League powerhouse volleyball
At home for their second game of and a new coach, Zanesville was watch- in the first week of their 2024 season squad, but Tri-Valley bounced back to
the season, the Blue Devils hosted the ing with high hopes that the first game and are 2-3 after five games. take the second set, 25-23. But the Lady
St. Clairsville Red Devils. From the kick- would be a success. During the first In the season opener back on Tues- Generals took the next two sets 25-13,
off, the Red Devils started to command quarter, both teams battled for posses- day night, August 20 at Maysville, The 26-24 to win the match.
the game racking up a 21 – 0 lead by sion of the ball but neither one could pull Lady Dawgs defeated the host Lady Pan- The Lady Dawgs were led by Zoey
the end of the first quarter. Zanesville off a touchdown. The Johnnies woke up thers in straight sets 25-19, 25-19, 25- Snode with 20 assists, Addison Wilson
was able to keep their opponents at bay during the second quarter and pushed 17 and were led by Annika Collet with six with nine kills and two block assists, Re-
for the majority of the second quarter through with the first score of the game kills, Haley Moore with 14 assists, and ese Lamonica with seven kills and one
but with just two minutes left in the half taking a touchdown and following it with Cali Berry with her 7/8 serving and pair block assist, and Cali Berry, who was
the Red Devils #40 Tyson Pastor ran in a a two-point conversion to take the 8 – of aces. 11/13 serving with a pair of aces.
10-yard touchdown pumping their lead 0 lead. The Blue Devils were fighting On Wednesday night, August 21 On Thursday night, August 29 back
at halftime up to 28 – 0. and didn’t want to go to halftime with in the home opener at Tri-Valley High in Dresden at The Dawg House, Tri-Val-
When the break was over the Red a deficit but Johnstown landed another School, the Lady Dawgs were beaten by ley hosted the visiting River View Lady
Devils went back to work with a 55-yard touchdown just prior to the end of the visiting Hilliard Davidson in straight sets Bears and lost in three sets to the Lady
touchdown at the onset of the third quar- first half and sent the Zanesville team to 25-12, 25-13, 25-19 in a non-confer- Bears 25-22, 25-17, 25-14.
ter thanks to #44 Dino Burk who set St. the locker room down 16 – 0. ence game. Tri-Valley was led by Haley The Lady Dawgs were led by Haley
Clairsville’s total to 34 points after the When play continued the battle Moore who was 10/10 serving, had 16 Moore, who was 11/11 serving with an
assists, and had an ace. Annika Collet ace and had 14 assists. Annika Collet
extra point was missed. Zanesville was raged on but the Devils just couldn’t had seven kills as well for the host Lady added six kills, three block assists and a
unable to recover from the deficit and keep the Johnnies down as they Dawgs. pair of blocks for Tri-Valley.
the visitors walked away with a 34 – 0 launched another offensive that ended On Thursday night, August 27 in The Lady Dawgs next four games
win. in a touchdown with a two-point conver- Dresden, the host Lady Dawgs defeated are: Tuesday, September 3, at home vs.
The Blue Devils face the Newark sion to take a 24-point lead. Before the the visiting Crooksville Lady Ceramics, Philo; Thursday, September 5 at John
Wildcats on the road on Friday, Septem- third quarter ended Johnstown added winning 3-1 with scores of Tri-Valley 25- Glenn; Monday, September 9 at Indian
ber 6th. Zanesville will take up an ex- another touchdown to their tally setting 14, 28-26, 25-13, 25-13. Annika Collet Valley, then back home on Tuesday, Sep-
tended road schedule and won’t be back the score at 32 – 0 with a running clock. hit 15 kills and Emma Smith added 14 tember 10 vs Morgan.
on their home field until Friday, Septem- The last few minutes of the game were kills and three blocks, Reese Lamonica
ber 27 when they play the Mt. Vernon frantic but the Johnnies managed to added eight kills and three blocks, Ad-
Yellowjackets. capitalize on their plays enough to pull dison Wilson hit eight kills, Haley Moore
off another touchdown but didn’t make set 40 assists with 100% serving, and
Vs Johnstown-Monroe (8/23) the extra points so they walked away Nora Dunn made 25 digs to lead the TV
For their home opener, the Blue with a 38 – 0 victory. defense. Cali Berry was also 16-of-18
Devils hosted the Johnstown Johnnies. serving in the win.

Muskingum University

Soccer Community Night

September 11

Submitted

The Muskingum Athletics depart- it a great jersey night as well! At the end
ment is putting on a fun Community of each match, there will be a spot for
Night for double header soccer matches. the kids who attend to have an oppor-
The event will take place on Wednesday, tunity to get their jersey or something of
September 11th on the North Turf. The their choice signed by Muskingum soc-
men’s soccer team will take on Asbury cer players, so be sure to bring a marker
starting at 5 pm and then the women’s with you (there will be an announcement
soccer team will take on Oberlin directly made over the loud speaker for the loca-
to follow. tion on the day!). Muskingum University
For each match Muskingum Univer- Athletics hopes to see many of you there
sity athletics would love to see youth sup- to help make it a fun filled evening of
porters in their favorite jerseys to make soccer!