{"id":29317,"date":"2025-09-18T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T03:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=29317"},"modified":"2025-09-19T15:28:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T19:28:00","slug":"thursday-volleyball-roundup-patriots-win-absolute-thriller-in-five-sets-over-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/18\/thursday-volleyball-roundup-patriots-win-absolute-thriller-in-five-sets-over-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday Volleyball Roundup: Patriots win absolute thriller in five sets over Stars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In what very well may be the best match of the season for the Z-Team, the Heritage Patriots won a five-set marathon match by the score of 16-14 over South Adams Thursday on our game of the week on 92.7 FM. It was part of a busy night for high school volleyball across Z-Land, with the Bellmont Braves picking up a straight-set win over NE8 rival New Haven, as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/18sepHER3SA2Wrap.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>WZBD&#8217;s Rex Brewer wraps up a brilliant night of high school volleyball coverage with the report on Heritage&#8217;s home win over South Adams in five sets Thursday. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Reagan Bollenbacher and Reece Beitler each had 12 kills for the Stars in the tough loss, while Reagan Beitler had an incredible 47 assists. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/18sepEndOfMatch.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Listen to the end of Thursday&#8217;s exciting match in the ACAC here. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"424\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DSC_1151.jpg?resize=640%2C424&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DSC_1151.jpg?resize=1024%2C678&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DSC_1151.jpg?resize=300%2C199&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DSC_1151.jpg?resize=768%2C509&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DSC_1151.jpg?resize=1536%2C1017&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DSC_1151.jpg?resize=2048%2C1356&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DSC_1151.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DSC_1151.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The Bellmont Braves, shown last week at Carroll, got back to winning ways against New Haven on Thursday night. (Photo by Dane Fuelling)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Note: No scores or information were received from Adams Central for their match against Woodlan Thursday evening or from Bellmont for their win over New Haven. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Heritage 3 South Adams 2 (25-16, 25-21, 20-25, 17-25, 16-14)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/18sepHeritageSETpt2.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The Patriots go up 2-0 in sets. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/18sepSAsetpt3.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Christina Lehman wins set No. 3 for the Starfires. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/18sepSAsetpt4.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>South Adams forces a fifth and decisive set with the set-point kill. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bellmont 3 New Haven 0 (No score provided)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other Local Scores<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eastside 3 Prairie Heights 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Madison-Grant 3 Blackford 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Southwood 3 Whitko 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Muncie Central 3 Daleville 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FW Northrop 3 FW Wayne 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Huntington North 3 Columbia City 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Concordia Lutheran 3 Blackhawk Christian 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jay County 3 Connersville 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canterbury 3 Bishop Luers 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bluffton 3 Southern Wells 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wabash 3 Northwestern 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>East Noble 3 DeKalb 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lakewood Park Christian 3 Garrett 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Center Grove 3 Brebeuf Jesuit 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Westview 3 Churubusco 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Manchester 3 Lewis Cass 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mississinewa 3 Marion 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>West Noble 3 Central Noble 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Norwell 3 Leo 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brownsburg 3 Fishers 1<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Northfield 3 Rochester 0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what very well may be the best match of the season for the Z-Team, the Heritage Patriots<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29318,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[29,13,15,51,28,26,55],"class_list":["post-29317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-adamscentral","tag-bellmont","tag-featured","tag-heritage","tag-southadams","tag-sports","tag-volleyball"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/DSC_1151.jpg?fit=2464%2C1632&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29324,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29317\/revisions\/29324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}