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Hunting Hills Lightning senior women on a roll to start 4A volleyball provincials

The Hunting Hills Lighting senior women’s volleyball team started the Alberta Schools Athletic Association 4A volleyball provincials in Red Deer on a high Thursday.
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The Hunting Hills Lighting senior women’s volleyball team started the Alberta Schools Athletic Association 4A volleyball provincials in Red Deer on a high Thursday.

Hunting Hills won both their matches to open the 10-team tournament in straight sets, knocking off Harry Ainlay 25-19, 25-19 and defeating Foothills Composite 25-22, 25-18. The Lighting will square off against the top-seeded William Aberhart at 11:30 a.m. Friday at Gateway, before taking on St. Francis of Calgary at 5:30 p.m.

The host Lindsay Thurber Raiders stumbled out of the gate, falling to Catholic Central in three sets 20-25, 25-15, 12-15 before losing to Strathcona 22-25, 22-25. The Raiders will try and rebound against the eighth-seed Bowness at 1:30 p.m. before finishing out round-robin against Charles Spencer.

Meanwhile, the Raiders senior men downed Foothills Composite 25-12, 25-12, but fell to Sir Winston Churchill of Calgary 25-20, 20-25, 10-15. Lindsay Thurber will battle the top-ranked Strathcona squad at 11:30 a.m., before concluding the round-robin against Salisbury Composite at 5:30 p.m.

Hunting Hills senior men also split their opening games, beating Chinook 25-23, 25-15 and falling 23-25, 23-25 to William Aberhart. They will play Charles Spencer at 1:30 p.m. before ending round-robin against Jasper Place of Edmonton at 5:30 p.m.

Quarterfinal action gets underway at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, with the senior women’s final at 5:30 p.m. and the men’s final to follow, with each game at Lindsay Thurber.

Spectators are not permitted for round-robin games. All games will be live-streamed and the streams and scores can be found at www.asaa.ca.



Byron Hackett

About the Author: Byron Hackett

Byron has been the sports reporter at the advocate since December of 2016. He likes to spend his time in cold hockey arenas accompanied by luke warm, watered down coffee.
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