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Ninety Six High School
volleyball players celebrate Thursday after winning a point against Abbeville.
The Wildcats upset the Region 2-AA champs in four sets. (Matt Walsh |
Index-Journal)
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ABBEVILLE - When the
volleyball bounced off the hardwood floor for the final time Thursday night,
Ninety Six High School coach Kristen Hopkins and the six players who sat near
her leaped off the bench in joy and mobbed the six Wildcats on the court.
Ninety Six's junior varsity team, many of them sitting
behind the referee stand, jumped out from the crowd and stampeded toward their
teammates. The Wildcats acted as if they won a region
title.
One problem, though.
They
didn't.
Two nights after Abbeville beat Mid-Carolina to win
the Region 2-AA championship and snap Ninety Six's run of 11 consecutive region
titles, Ninety Six showed what kind of pride its program has by handing the
Panthers their only blemish on the region schedule with a four-set victory
(23-25, 25-20, 26-24, 25-22) on its archrival's home
floor.
"We just decided to come out here and played our butts
off because they already stole the region title from us," said Quasha Williams,
who had a team-high 23 kills. "They was undefeated, so we just went out there
and did our thing."
Meanwhile, some Abbeville (11-2 overall,
9-1 region) players walked toward the locker room with tears strolling down
their cheeks. Others were consoled outside the gym after the postgame
meeting.
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