(Pittsburgh, Pa) In an astonishing season finale, La Roche Redhawks swept the Pitt-Greensburg Bobcats 3-0 on their senior night making their conference record 4-4 (25-10, 25-19, 25-18). Junior Cassidy Rossi ( Pittsburgh, PA / Shaler) led the team with 11 assists. Bethany Nulph ( Saxonburg, PA / Knoch) led a game high of 9 kills and 12 digs. Bringing in a big defensive aspect on the net was Rory McCune ( Saxonburg, PA / Knoch) with 8 kills and helping the Redhawks have 5 blocks to the Bobcats 1.

The Redhawks did a phenomenal job in the first set by beating the Bobcats by 15 points. During the first set, the Redhawks started off with a 3 point lead, driving the momentum of the Redhawks to total 9 kills and 4 aces. Morgan Johnson (Brookville, PA / Brookville) sealed away each set with an ace.

The second set the Bobcats started to come together and showed a competitive side by keeping up with the Redhawks. Despite the Bobcats losing the set, this was the closest score of the whole game until the Redhawks had a 6 point run to top off the second set.

The third set started off with the Bobcats on top and leading with at least a 2 point lead throughout the game. A kill delivered from Sophomore Rory McCune helped the Redhawks gain a 5 point advantage to bring the Redhawks back on top. The game continued to be neck and neck for the next few points

Senior Bethany Nulph remains in the top 5 of the AMCC conference at #4 with 189 kills along with Freshman Quin Huges (Butler, PA / Knoch) at #5 with an average of 0.69 blocks per set. Senior Sydney Herzer continues to drive the conference with 5.03 digs per set and a total of 392 digs to end the regular reason.

NEXT UP: With the win over the Bobcats, this could potentially let the Redhawks clinch a spot in the 2021-22 AMCC playoffs. This will be determined once the conference games finish up on Saturday October 30th.

Written by Intern: Zachary Opalko