Sports

The Royall Panthers volleyball team still controls its own destiny for an outright Scenic Bluffs Conference championship after winning two games Thursday night.  Royall swept Hillsboro 3-0 by scores of 25-21, 25-16, and 25-10.  Royall then squared off with Cashton the only team within the conference to have defeated Royall this year.  Royall dropped set one 25-23 but bounced back to win the next three sets 27-25, 25-14, and 25-23.  Royall had to rally in set 2 and got a pair of aces from serving specialist Kylie Rick with the scored tied at 25 to win the set.  Bria Gruen had a big game as did Laya Wainwright for the Panthers.  The Panthers improve to 20-8 on their season and 11-1 in the Scenic Bluffs Conference.  Cashton had swept Wonewoc-Center in their first game Thursday night.  Cashton is now 17-12 on their season and 9-3 in the conference.  Wonewoc-Center defeated Hillsboro 3-2 in the other game played at Royall. 

The Hillsboro Tigers Volleyball team moved over .500 on their season by taking down New Lisbon 3-1 Tuesday evening.  Hillsboro won by scores of 25-18, 23-25, 25-14, 25-13.  Hillsboro improves to 15-14 on their season and 6-4 in the Scenic Bluffs Conference.  Harper Sullivan had another double digit kill game for the Tigers with 17.  New Lisbon got a solid game from senior Brooklyn Lowe. New Lisbon seniors Shayna Sletten, Lowe, Lilly Bell and Heidi Mathes were honored before the game.  Bell was named homecoming queen after the game alongside Jameson Pfaff who was named homecoming king for New Lisbon.   

The Wonewoc-Center Wolves kept their conference championship hopes alive with a 3-0 sweep of Necedah.  Freshman Eastyn Fry had a big game for the Wolves with 8kills 4blocks and 3 aces.  Bella LeMoine added 8assists and 3aces for Wonewoc-Center who improves to 5-3 in the Scenic Bluffs Conference and 10-6 overall.  Liza Kovalev had 4aces in the loss for Necedah who drops to 0-8 in the conference and 3-16 overall.  The wolves breezed thru sets 1 & 2 by scores of 25-11 and 25-13 but Necedah fought hard falling in a tight 3^rd set 26-24.