EDW Lady Cardinals remain undefeated in district

The E.D. White Lady Cardinals had little trouble defeating District 4-3A foe Franklin 25-5, 25-8 and 25-9 in three straight sets Thursday night.

With the win, the Lady Cardinals improved to 14-8 overall and 5-0 in district 4-3A while the Hornets dropped to 1-17 overall and 0-5 in district play.

E.D. White Head Volleyball coach Mary Cavell said she was extremely pleased the way her team controlled the whole game.

“I think our service game dominated the entire match,” Cavell said. “I told the girls the when the ball comes back over let’s take care of our free ball and try to run our offense. We took care of business that way.”

The Lady Cardinals jumped out early in game one scoring six straight points to take the early 6-0 lead.

The Lady Hornets would not get any closer than five points, 6-1, in the game. The Lady Cardinals then went on to score eight straight points to take a commanding 14-1 lead.

The Lady Cardinals closed out the game with an 11-4.

Game two of the best of five started off with tied 1-1 before the Lady Cardinals scored 11 straight points to take a commanding 12-1 lead.

Leading 12-2 at the midway point of the game, the Lady Cardinals scored five straight to increase the lead to 18-2. The lead was as many as 17, 20-3, before the Lady hornets scored two straight points for the first time to narrow the gap 20-5.

The lead was up to 22-5 before the Lady Hornets responded again by scoring two straight points to narrow the lead 22-7.

The Lady Cardinals closed out the second game by scoring two straight points on the serve.

The final game started off just as strong as the first two for the Lady Cardinals.

The Lady Cardinals scored first again going up 2-0 early. The Lady Hornets got their first point when the Lady Cardinal serve went out of bounds, to cut the lead to 2-1.

After going ahead 5-1, Franklin scored once again when the ball went off the roof.

Hailey Silverii’s kill increased the Lady Cardinals’ lead to 7-2 and an ace by Kathryn Stock would later increase the lead to 9-2 for the Lady Cardinals.

After Franklin’s return hit the roof on the next play, Stock’s serve went into the net, giving the Lady Hornets their second points of the game.

The Lady Cardinals would out-score the Lady Hornets 15-6 the rest of the way to complete the sweep.

Stock led the team in kills (13), blocks (1) and digs (1) while Morgan Henning led the team in aces (7). Maria Thomassie added 19 assists on the night to led the Lady Cardinals.

Marcee Simmons led all Lady Hornets with seven kills and nine blocks. Brittany Webber added six digs along with two aces by Kasha Johnson and seven assists by Christen Harris.

Cavell said she is happy with the way everything is going for the Lady Cardinals at this point in the season.

“We had a couple of little mistakes but we moved on,” Cavell said. “I thought we held the score down as low as we could in a varsity situation and we were able to get everybody in at the varsity level.”