LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN, Ga. - Belhaven saved three set points in the opener and led midway through the second, but Huntingdon pulled away Thursday night at the Barnes PE Center. The fourth-seeded Hawks beat the No. 5 Blazers 25-22, 25-17, 25-14 in the CCS Quarterfinals.
The Blazers hit .222 and were tied at 5-5 in the opening set before Huntingdon scored six straight.
Tarryn Woodall kept Belhaven close with four kills in the set, and when the Hawks got to set point at 24-19,
Megan LaCour and
Cami Davis followed a Huntingdon service error with back-to-back kills. That got the Blazers within two. A'Kirra McElveen put away the next ball.
Belhaven had another opening in the second.
Kayla Robinson served an ace and
Goldie Lowe had a hand in two blocks, the second alongside Woodall to put the Blazers up 9-7. Huntingdon took the next six points. McElveen had two blocks in that stretch, and Ayla Hart capped it with an ace. Woodall got a sideout and
Angel Edwards served an ace to make it 13-11, but the Hawks answered with four straight and Belhaven never got that close again.
The Hawks widened the gap in the third. Hart served four straight points as Huntingdon went from 14-8 to 18-8, with an ace and a block from McElveen and Salome De Jesus along the way. Davis and
Laila Gauthier put down kills to get Belhaven back within seven. Huntingdon came back with six in a row, and McElveen ended the match with her 13th kill.
Belhaven had 12 kills in the first set and just 14 over the last two, with 19 attack errors in those two sets. Huntingdon hit .202 to Belhaven's .028 and finished with eight blocks to the Blazers' three. McElveen hit .423 and had a hand in six of the Hawks' blocks.
Woodall led Belhaven with 10 kills on .250 hitting, and Gauthier added six. LaCour had five kills and nine digs. Edwards finished with 11 assists, and
Maggie Joy Tomlin had 10.
Robinson led the Blazers with 10 digs, taking her to 504 for the season. Woodall finished with 333 kills. Both were named to the All-CCS Second Team earlier Thursday.
Belhaven finished 11-16 overall and 6-6 in conference play, reaching the CCS quarterfinals for the fifth straight season. Huntingdon advances to face top-seeded Covenant in the semifinals.
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