Lady Matadors’ volleyball players sign with four-year schools

Four Arizona Western College Lady Matadors volleyball players have signed to play at the four-year level next season.

After helping the Lady Matadors to a Region I championship and an appearance in the Southwest B District championship game, Anny Montaño, Pamela Durazo, Naomy Vergez, and Constanza Silva have signed to continue their volleyball careers.

Montaño will continue her collegiate career at Sienna College, an NCAA DI institution in Loudonville, N.Y. competing in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference.

Montaño played in 47 career matches in her three seasons at Arizona Western College, finishing her time in Yuma and earning NJCAA Second Team All-American honors after playing in 25 matches, leading the team in kills with 266 while finishing with 146 digs. The outside hitter

two-run homer to end the first inning. Cincinnati had scored in the first inning in the previous six games.

Thomas also robbed Votto of a hit with a diving catch of a sinking liner in the fourth.

Walker snapped a scoreless tie in the fourth inning

with his 15th homer,

a rocket 10 rows deep into the left field seats with Ketel Marte on base. The lead was Arizona’s first since the ninth inning of an eventual 2-1 loss at Pittsburgh on Saturday.

Rojas’s knocked Mike Minor out of his second start of the season with a one-out solo homer in the fifth. Minor (0-2), who spent the first two months of the season on the Injured

List with a left shoulder strain that developed in spring training, allowed three hits and three runs with three walks and four strikeouts.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Diamondbacks: RHP Luke Weaver (right elbow inflammation) threw 60 pitches over four innings in rehab start for Triple-A Reno on Tuesday. He’ll throw a bullpen session on Friday, manager Torey Lovullo said. … C Carson Kelly (left oblique strain) caught seven innings and hit a home run in the same game. He was expected to DH on Wednesday, Lovullo said. … SS Nick Ahmed (right shoulder inflammation) was shifted to the 60-day Injured List on Wednesday.

Reds: CF Nick Senzel was scratched from the starting lineup with a

lower back strain. … 2B

Jonathan India (right hamstring strain), the 2021 National League Rookie of the Year, went 1-for-4 with two runs batted in on Tuesday in the first game of his rehab assignment with Triple-A Louisville. … IF Donovan Solano (left hamstring strain) went 1-for-3 while playing third base in the same game. Both players had scheduled days off on Wednesday.

UP NEXT

Diamondbacks: RHP Zach Davies (2-3) threw 7 2-3 shutout innings in his last start on Saturday at Pittsburgh.

Reds: RHP Tyler Mahle (2-5) left his last start on Saturday against the Nationals in the seventh inning with a 7-3 lead but was victimized by a blown save for the third time in 12 starts this season.