Photo: Steve Galluzzo
It’s not over ‘til it’s over. The St. Matthew’s eighth-grade girls volleyball team proved that adage still holds true in last Thursday’s Delphic League championship match at Chaminade.
The Falcons saved nine set points to complete a 25-18, 27-25 sweep of the host Eagles and capture their third straight league title under three different coaches. Elia Rubin hit 12 of her match-high 17 kills in the second set—six in an 8-0 run that pulled St. Matthew’s even at 24-24. Setter Fiona Fisher had 20 assists and three aces, libero Emily Graves had 11 digs and two aces, Peyton Brau had three blocks and Ava and Olivia Kaplan each added five kills.
This group of players accumulated a 31-1 record over three years, going 9-0 as sixth-graders (beating Crossroads to win the Pacific Basin League title), 11-1 in seventh grade (avenging its only loss to Marlborough in the Delphic League final) and 11-0 this season. Rounding out the roster were Kate Albert, Cate Childress, Piper Lacy, Ellis Muir, Bella Rahi, Lauren Rowen and Ibby Rawlins.
At the Pacific Basin League swim championships on Saturday, the Falcons’ boys (Jack Higley, Jack Shoemaker, Cassian Carmichael and Nuzzy Sykes) were third out of eight schools while the girls (Samantha Momtazee, Lucy Bowden, Sophie Gilford, Julia Momtazee, Elena Roby and Georgia Jones) finished fourth out of nine schools.
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