Volleyball Team Continues Winning Ways
Newtown High School’s girls’ volleyball team defeated host Brookfield in a match that began on October 7 and had to be completed two days later due to a power outage. The Nighthawks won 3-0 (25-22, 25-18, 25-21).
Grace Miller and Kate Petersen both had four aces, and Maddie Patrick added a pair of aces. Patrick had ten kills, and Petersen had eight kills. Miller came up with eight digs, and Keyera Smith had seven digs.
The Nighthawks earned another 3-0 victory by defeating host Immaculate of Danbury by scores of 25-14, 25-15, 25-6 on October 13. Newtown carried a perfect 5-0 record into Wednesday’s home match with New Fairfield at 5 pm.
In the win over Immaculate, Smith logged nine of Newtown’s 16 aces. Sarah Nowacki had eight kills, and Miller and Smith each had a half-dozen kills. Smith had nine digs, Chloe O’Connell had six digs, Maggie McInerney had five, and Shannon Muckell and Delia Clouden each had four.