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Cavaliers open postseason with sweep over Tiospa Zina

Aberdeen Roncalli’s Ava Hanson, right, hits the ball past Tiospa Zina’s Kami Crawford as the Cavaliers’ Faith Danielson looks on at far left, during Tuesday night’s match at the Roncalli High School gym. Photo by John Davis taken 10/31/2023
The Aberdeen Roncalli Cavaliers started out their postseason journey with as good of a start as they could have asked for Tuesday night at Roncalli Gym. The Cavaliers scored 17 of the first 18 points of the match and rolled to a 25-5, 25-12, 25-7 sweep over Tiospa Zina in Region 1A volleyball action. "We knew that we had to get this one done. We knew that we could beat them right away and get it done in three," said Roncalli junior Ava Hanson, who had seven kills in the first 15 points of the opening set. "We were all super excited coming out from the start. Our passes were there, our hits were there, the sets were there." Hanson finished the first set with nine kills on the way to a match-leading 14 kills on the night. When Hanson wasn't pounding down shots at the net, the Cavaliers were finding open spots from the service line. Roncalli racked up 26 aces on the evening, 10 of them coming from McKenna O'Keefe. "We’ve just been practicing serves a lot at practice and s

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