Heights spikers earn No. 2 seed

Wisconsin Heights’ girls volleyball team received the No. 2 seed in its WIAA Division 3 sectional and will host Cambridge in a regional quarterfinal on Oct. 22. Brodhead received the top seed in the sectional. Waterloo also defeated Heights, 25-11, 25-18, 25-20 last Tuesday in a match likely to ensure a Southern Capitol Conference title for the Pirates. “We didn’t show up. Plain and simple,” Heights coach Kala O’Connell said. “We felt prepared to play Waterloo again, but couldn’t put anything together. After playing so well the weekend before it was disappointing to not play well against Waterloo.” Waterloo jumped to an 8-0 lead in the first set and cruised to an easy win. “We couldn’t get any momentum and Waterloo would always get the ball back right away,” O’Connell said. Heights was more competitive in the second set, but the Pirates eventually pulled away. In the third set, Heights grabbed a 16-15 lead after three straight service points by Ashlee Adler. But the Pirates finished the set on a 10-4 burst to win the match. Adler finished with nine kills, six digs and three aces, while Jada Wood had 15 assists, seven digs, three kills and two aces. Kelsi Handel had four digs and two kills, Kylee Doherty had eight digs and five kills, Raegan Doherty had seven digs, three assists and two kills, Riley Lynch had three digs and Emily VanRiper added six digs. “We had too many missed serves, way too many dropped balls with no effort and too many unforced errors,” O’Connell said. “Players that normally can place the ball well, were tipping out of bounds or right into a block and then we would have no cover. It was hard to watch. “The next day at practice when I asked the girls their thoughts on the game, they didn’t want to talk about it. They’re disappointed in themselves because now we can’t win conference. We’ve agreed to erase this match from our memory and move on to the end of regular season and look towards tournament. There’s a good chance we’ll see Waterloo again at sectional finals and we’ll get them when it really matters.” WATERLOO 3, WISCONSIN HEIGHTS 0 Heights ........................ 11 18 20 Waterloo ..................... 25 25 25 WISCONSIN HEIGHTS (leaders) — Kills: Adler 9. Assists: Wood 15. Aces: Adler 3. WATERLOO: Kills: Mosher 13. Assists: Mosher 11. Blocks: Mosher 2. Aces: Wolff 4. Digs: Riege 18.