North Penn sweeps past Souderton
For Montgomery Media
This was a contest of consistent volleying and strong line-drive serves. The North Penn girls volleyball team used its stellar game at the net to beat Souderton in three straight matches — 25-12, 25-9, 25-21 — in a Suburban One Continental match Thursday.
Maidens coach Bryan Yost was proud of his team after the impressive victory.
“We had a game plan in place to not make any mistakes and to work hard and have a cohesive unit,” he said.
North Penn senior Stephanie Elechko was the star of the match with four aces — 90 percent in and 15 kills.
“Our goal is to always go out there and minimize our errors, play our best and work as a team,” Elechko said. “Even those who don’t get a lot of playing time work really hard.”
During t he f i r s t f ew minutes of match one, North Penn held a healthy 10-2 advantage. Souderton made a nice run with some nice volleying efforts, but t he Knights got f our st r aight points off serves winning t he f i r st match 25-12.
Both teams switched sides for the second match, but it turned into a case of déjà vu. 1RUWK 3enn FDPe RuW Rn fiUe and quickly grabbed a 12-3 with dominant serving and ferocious play at the net. The Knights won match two 25-9.
Souderton might have been outplayed today, but would not be out-spirited and it showed in the third match.
Souderton came out and got off to a 2-0 lead and a burst of momentum. The away fans began to get into the game chanting from the bleachers. The battle stayed highly competitive for much of the contest and was tied up at 20-20.
But another vicious spike from Elechko settled North Penn back into their groove swinging the pendulum of momentum back to the Maidens as they stormed on wLWK fiYe VWUDLJKW SRLnWV Dnd ultimately the win in three straight matches.
“In match three we had nothing left to lose. I felt we overplayed because we were so worked up and then that snowballed,” Indians coach Marlena Musselman said. “What’s frustrating is we can play, we can hang with teams like North Penn and I don’t know why we can’t pull it out. But, these are great girls. We will probably get it together on Oct. 19, our last game and our season will be over.”