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Northview sweeps Parke Heritage in dominating fashion
Over the weekend, while playing in the annual Plainfield Invitational, Northview’s volleyball team dropped its first match of the season when they fell to the host Quakers in a three-set heartbreaker, bringing an end to a long day that involved three matches and over two-plus hours’ worth of bus rides.
And with a quick turnaround and an unbeaten Parke Heritage team visiting Brazil on Monday, Northview head coach Scott McDonald urged his group to bring the energy.
They listened quite closely as Northview swept the Wolves in dominating fashion to push its record to 9-1 on the season, marking the fastest the program has reached the nine-win mark since the 2018 team did it on Aug. 25.
“They came in undefeated and just beat Cascade in five sets and that’s one of our sectional opponents, so we knew we had to come in here and be ready to play,” said McDonald. “This group is learning how to get that killer instinct, and they showed that tonight.”
Northview set the tone for the night in the first set.
Using the powerful front row of Keira Lucas, Karsyn Buck, Kaylee Krause and Rachel Rounds, among others to its advantage, the Knights rolled to a 25-11 victory.
“We talked before the game about wanting to set the tone early and be aggressive at the service line. I thought we did that. We were never not in control,” McDonald said.
With the dominance in which the hosts won by, as well as understanding that they’d be playing seven matches in an eight-day span with battles against Cascade, Bloomington South and Edgewood coming immediately after Monday’s win over Parke Heritage, McDonald used every member of his varsity roster the rest of the way.
His impressions of some of the most inexperienced players?
“I thought they did well,” he said. “They seemed to be a little nervous at first, especially when I [moved them into different positions on the floor], but it’s important for us to get some of those younger kids this kind of experience in these types of situations.”
Northview continued to impress in the second and third sets, winning by respective scores of 25-19 and 25-14 to complete the 3-0 sweep, the team’s fifth of the season. Making the night even more special was getting to celebrate the win in the team’s newly renovated locker room that has wooden lockers for each player, freshly laid carpet, state-of-the-art lighting and a tv hung on the wall.
“The kids really like it,” said McDonald of the team’s new locker room. “It says a lot about the community and how they’ve helped us with Peterson Company doing this for us. It’s a pretty cool thing.”