CORBIN SWEEPS

The Corbin Lady Redhounds and the Whitley County Lady Colonels met on the volleyball court Monday night to decide the number two see in the upcoming district tournament to be played at Knox Central, Oct. 12-16.

The Lady Redhounds took a two-set win over the Lady Colonels, 25-21, 25-18. But, was the number two seed decided. According to Corbin Coach Alecia Elwell has won that honor even though Whitley County won the first meeting 25-21, 20-25, 25-15.

“This is something we felt like we could do,” said Elwell. “It’s always a tough battle. We come in here and battle them to the depth every time we play them. We just came out on the top end this time.”

“We said we wanted to end this year with a five-game win streak and that’s number two,” said Elwell. “Harlan was the first Monday night. We have three more. We have that on the locker room that we wanted to end with five wins in a row so that I wouldn’t have my first losing season since 2001.”

“We have been waiting for this date all week long,” said Elwell. “I am so proud of them for actually coming in here, executing and playing hard. When someone was having trouble someone else picked it up.”

In the first game, Melanie Sutton got the Lady Redhounds off to a 5-0 start. Corbin held that led until Whitley County’s Brittany Howard strung together five straight serves that would eventually put the Lady Colonels ahead, 13-12.

Whitley County moved ahead 17-13 as Kayla Sears made the front line tough for Corbin with three kills in a 5-1 run.

Down, 19-17, Corbin exchange student Petra Kover served five straight for a 23-19 lead. Candice Powell stopped the run with a kill for the Lady Colonels but Corbin held on for the 25-21 win.

Corbin again jumped out to a 6-2 lead in the second set and held on to that narrow margin before Whitley County made a run to tie the game 16-16. However, that was the closest they would get as Kover again went to work with her hard serves and scored six unanswered points along with two aces for a 23-16 lead. The Lady Redhounds never looked back.

Elwell said Corbin would get the number two seed from the win. “It’s huge for us because the second will play the fifth. The third will played fourth and the number one will sit out.”

However, according to the KHSAA, in five team districts five will play four with the winner playing the one-seed and the two playing the three with the winners meeting for the championship. If that’s the case, Corbin and Whitley County will meet in the first-round of the tournament with one of those two facing elimination.