Broken Arrow Sweeps Sandite Volleyball 3-0

The Charles Page High School volleyball team is still looking for its first conference win after falling 3-0 to No. 5 Broken Arrow (16-7, 5-1) Tuesday night at the Ed Dubie Field House.

Sand Springs (11-11) dropped to 0-6 in the tough Frontier Valley Conference despite playing a fairly competitive match against the perennial powerhouse.

The Tigers ran away with the first game, building momentum behind an eight-point run early in the set to go up 17-3.

Sand Springs responded with a five-point streak of its own behind kills from Brooklyn Shope and Averi Tippit, but Broken Arrow got hot once again and closed out the set with an 8-1 run.

The next two games were much closer, however.

After falling behind 12-5 early in game two, the Sandites cut their deficit as close as 16-13 but could never quite tie it up. Broken Arrow pulled away to win 25-19.

Game three stayed close much longer as the Sandites only trailed 10-9 midway through, but from then on it was one step forward and three steps back before Broken Arrow prevailed 25-15.

Despite the loss, the Sandites were impressive at times, extending the rallies with exceptional defense.

Evyn Morrow recorded 21 digs, followed by Adelynn Ray with 12. Jayden Smith showed off on both sides of the ball with eight digs and a team-high six kills to tie Shope. Hannah McKelvey had 10 assists.

The Sandites will look to get back above .500 when they host 5A No. 6 Sapulpa (23-11, 1-4) on Tuesday.

Sapulpa previously beat Sand Springs 2-0 (25-23, 25-12) at the Claremore Invitational, but the Sandites are the defending Highway 97 Rivalry champion after winning the conference match 3-1 last year.

BA 3 CPHS 0 (25-9, 25-19, 25-15)
Kills: BA 34, CPHS 19.
Blocks: BA 2, CPHS 2.
Aces: BA 10, CPHS 5.
Errors: BA 17, CPHS 29.
Service Errors: BA 6, CPHS 8.

(Sand Springs Stats)
Kills: Smith 6, Shope 6, Tippit 4, DeBerry 2, Ray 1.
Assists: H. McKelvey 10, Ray 3, Tippit 1, Morrow 1.
Digs: Morrow 21, Ray 12, Smith 8, H. McKelvey 2, F. McKelvey 2, Tippit 2, Shope 2, Taff 1.
Solo Blocks: DeBerry 1.
Assisted Blocks: Ray 1, Pearce 1.
Aces: Tippit 2, H. McKelvey 1, Morrow 1, Ray 1.