Volleyball season draws to an end

The culmination of this year’s summer season will happen tonight at St Brigid’s College stadium when Volleyball Horsham hosts grand finals for five grades of competition.

The night kicks off at 5pm with Murtoa playing Saints Noah in a junior grade grand final.

The Murtoa team won the second-semi in straight sets and will look to Cleo Baker and Hannah Whyte to lead the way.

The Saints Noah team has Noah Brennan and Hamish Sellens in good touch, so a close game is expected.

At 6.15pm, the ‘A’ grade grand final sees the Malakos Nuggets take on the Volleyroos.

This will pit the Berry brothers against each other and how they distribute the ball to their respective hitters will go a long way to determining the winner.

Matthew Berry will look to Jon Fitzgerald and Pat Laffy to cause major havoc on the Volleyroos defence, while younger brother Nathan will have Jayden Mcqueen and Paddy Sherry as his go to players in attack.

Also at 6.15pm, the ‘C’ grade Red Group grand final between the Deadly Spikers and Minyips will take place.

The Deadly Spikers have been combining well as a team and have gone through the season undefeated.

They did get a scare in the second-semi when they were taken to five sets. Max Coleman and Cody Vigenser are the key players for the Deadly team.

The Minyips enjoyed a straightsets preliminary final win and will look to Ronan Garth-lindsay and Hayden Farlow to get them over the line.

Then, at 7.30pm, the ‘B’ grade grand final will see the experienced Phantom Masters take on rising stars Saints.

The older wiser heads in Vaughn Maroske and Andrew Adamson will look to put plenty of block pressure on the young Saints at- tackers. How setter John Kearns combines with the likes of Aidan O’connor and Will Brennan will determine the outcome of this final.

On court two at 7.30pm will be the ‘C’ grade Blue Group grand final between Murtoa Railway and Team Alpha Wolf Squadron.

In the second-semi it was the Murtoa team that came out on top with Will Saligari and Angus Matthews showing the way.

Team Alpha Wolf Squadron has been a consistent performers over a long period of time and this could very well be the last time we see them together.

Emily Hannan and Brittany Baker are the keys to this team’s fortunes, so expect another close game.

There is free admission for tonight’s grand finals and a canteen will be in operation for all spectators and supporters.

Entries are now being taken for the winter season competition starting on July 31.