Weck’s Five Aces Help Robinson Edge Martinsville 2-1 in Tournament Play

ROBINSON, Ill. — Robinson leaned on its serve to survive a three-set tournament match with Martinsville on Friday, holding off the visiting Bluestreaks 2-1 on Sept. 5 behind five service aces from sophomore Harper Weck and an 11-point afternoon from senior setter Sicily Rawlings.

The match was a grind between two teams sitting near .500, and the numbers showed it. Neither side could separate itself at the net — Robinson hit .052 as a team, Martinsville .054 — so the margin came from the service line, where the Maroons landed eight aces to the Bluestreaks’ four and missed just eight of 54 attempts.

Weck was the most damaging server on the floor. The sophomore went 8-for-9 from the line with five aces, a 55.6 percent ace rate that repeatedly broke up Martinsville’s offense before it could get started. Rawlings added three aces of her own while going 14-for-15 serving, and she ran the Maroons’ offense with 11 assists, four digs and a team-high 11 points.

Robinson’s attack was spread across the front row. Senior Eva Brashear led the way with five kills on 19 swings and chipped in 11 serve receptions, junior Grace Miller added four kills and seven digs, and senior Julia Wampler was efficient with three kills on nine attempts plus a team-best two blocks. Junior Olivia Chiasson contributed two kills and was perfect on nine serves, while senior Macee Hammond added seven digs and seven serve receptions from the back row.

Martinsville, which fell to 15-10, got strong work from its two primary hitters. Sophomore Austyn Davidson led all players with seven kills and hit .357 on 14 attempts, adding two block assists. Junior Addison Mcdearmon was right behind with six kills on 15 swings for a .200 clip, and she led the match with 12 digs while going 7-for-9 serving.

The Bluestreaks actually won two of the three statistical battles that usually decide close matches. They out-dug Robinson 54-35 and doubled up the Maroons at the net with eight total blocks to four, with junior Ezzy Herrera accounting for four block assists on her own. Junior Molly Kannamacher handed out nine assists and served three aces on 11 attempts, and senior Harper Baird handled the bulk of the back-row traffic with 24 serve receptions and 11 digs.

Where Martinsville struggled was in cleaning up its own mistakes. The Bluestreaks committed 15 attack errors on 74 swings — including five from senior Trinity Simons and three apiece from Mcdearmon and Kannamacher — and added 11 service errors, enough free points to offset the edge in digs and blocks. Seniors Bella Reed (one kill, 10 digs, one ace) and Simons (10 digs) kept rallies alive, but the Bluestreaks couldn’t string together the runs needed to steal the deciding set.

Robinson improved to 12-10 with the win.

Game Summary

Match Result

Martinsville Bluestreaks (15-10) 1

Robinson Maroons (12-10) 2

Sets played: 3. Individual set scores were not included in the available match data.

Team Totals

Individual Statistics

MARTINSVILLE

KILLS: Austyn Davidson (So) 7; Addison Mcdearmon (Jr) 6; Bella Reed (Sr) 1; Molly Kannamacher (Jr) 1; Myah Arney (Jr) 1; Harper Baird (Sr) 1; Ezzy Herrera (Jr) 1; Trinity Simons (Sr) 1

HITTING: Davidson 7-2-14, .357; Mcdearmon 6-3-15, .200; Baird 1-0-3, .333; Reed 1-0-1, 1.000

ASSISTS: Kannamacher 9; Mcdearmon 5

SERVING (Aces/Att/Err): Kannamacher 3-11-2; Reed 1-6-0; Mcdearmon 0-9-2; Simons 0-15-4; Herrera 0-8-2; Baird 0-2-1

BLOCKS: Herrera 4 (4 BA); Davidson 2 (2 BA); Mcdearmon 1 (1 BA); Simons 1 (1 BA)

DIGS: Mcdearmon 12; Baird 11; Reed 10; Simons 10; Kannamacher 4; Davidson 4; Herrera 3

SERVE RECEIVING (R/RE): Baird 24-6; Simons 8-1; Reed 5-0; Kannamacher 4-0; Mcdearmon 2-0; Arney 1-0; Davidson 1-0

ROBINSON

KILLS: Eva Brashear (Sr) 5; Grace Miller (Jr) 4; Julia Wampler (Sr) 3; Olivia Chiasson (Jr) 2; Lily Brown (Jr) 1; Harper Weck (So) 1; Avah Myers (So) 1

HITTING: Brashear 5-2-19, .158; Miller 4-1-16, .188; Wampler 3-1-9, .222; Myers 1-0-2, .500

ASSISTS: Sicily Rawlings (Sr) 11; Weck 4; Miller 1; Klaira Strohm (Jr) 1

SERVING (Aces/Att/Err): Weck 5-9-1; Rawlings 3-15-1; Chiasson 0-9-0; Brashear 0-9-1; Strohm 0-7-3; Miller 0-4-1; Myers 0-1-1

POINTS: Rawlings 11; Chiasson 6; Weck 5; Brashear 5; Strohm 4; Miller 2

BLOCKS: Wampler 2 (1 BS, 1 BA); Miller 1 (1 BS); Myers 1 (1 BA)

DIGS: Weck 7; Hammond 7; Miller 7; Chiasson 4; Rawlings 4; Brashear 2; Wampler 2; Myers 1; Strohm 1

SERVE RECEIVING (R/RE): Brashear 11-0; Miller 9-2; Macee Hammond (Sr) 7-1; Chiasson 3-1; Brown 2-1; Weck 2-0; Rawlings 1-1