LIHU’E — Blame Kim Downing and Misty Hug for this, but it’s time to coin a phrase over at Kaua’i High School: The Amazing Middles. Between the pair, the Red Raiders’ middle blockers registered 18 kills Wednesday night to lead
LIHU’E — Blame Kim Downing and Misty Hug for this, but it’s time to coin
a phrase over at Kaua’i High School: The Amazing Middles.
Between the pair,
the Red Raiders’ middle blockers registered 18 kills Wednesday night to lead
Kaua’i over Waimea 14-11, 12-15, 14-5 in a crucial KIF girls volleyball
match.
Hug accounted for 11 kills and Downing the other eight, as the
interchangeable pair wreaked havoc on the Menehunes from the get-go. Hug,
especially, fared well down the stretch, rocketing kills and sticking blocks in
the waning moments of the third game.
Only outside hitter Tiana Lum-Tucker
nailed more kills (12) than did Hug.
But all efforts were necessary for the
2-0 (second round) Raiders. Waimea’s second-set victory was the first Kaua’i
had dropped this KIF season. The Menehunes played ferociously, digging Kaua’i
kill attempts and sustaining lengthy rallies.
Ashley Hori led Waimea with
nine kills, and also laid herself out for numerous Red Raider kills.
The
loss drops Waimea to 1-1 in the second round of the KIF.
The Menehunes also
got spirited play from their middle, Virginia Aguilar, who registered eight
kills and numerous blocks.
Kaua’i’s Rona Nishikawa made all of her hitters’
jobs easier with pin-point setting. Heather Roberts and Kehaulani Regidor also
turned in solid nights.
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In the girls game, Waimea needed three
sets, but defeated Kaua’i 10-13, 14-10, 11-9. The Menehunes’ boys won in two
sets, 15-10, 15-8.
