{"id":5206,"date":"2023-08-15T10:06:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T14:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/?p=5206"},"modified":"2023-08-15T10:42:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T14:42:10","slug":"starfires-smash-blackford-in-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/15\/starfires-smash-blackford-in-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Starfires smash Blackford in opener"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>DANE FUELLING<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>WZBD.com<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking to win a fourth consecutive sectional title in 2023, the South Adams Starfires began their season with a convincing straight-set victory on the road over the Blackford Bruins Monday with a new-look lineup after graduating a big senior class last year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Coach Ashley Buckingham\u2019s team moved to 1-0 with a 25-17, 25-12, 25-15 win on the Bruins\u2019 home court, led by Macy Pries\u2019s 15 kills.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1280\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 720 \/ 1280;\" width=\"720\" controls src=\"http:\/\/98.158.76.108\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/PriesAceBlackford.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Macy Pries picks up one of her three aces against Blackford Monday  night. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The team schedule has the Starfires on a bit of a whirlwind tour over the first week with some team building taking place on the bus with trips to Blackford County, Randolph County and Miami County. The Stars play at Winchester Thursday and in an invitational Saturday at North Miami.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"136\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/98.158.76.108\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Gold-Medal-Logo_gold-and-black-1024x217.jpg?resize=640%2C136\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Gold-Medal-Logo_gold-and-black.jpg?resize=1024%2C217&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Gold-Medal-Logo_gold-and-black.jpg?resize=300%2C64&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Gold-Medal-Logo_gold-and-black.jpg?resize=768%2C163&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Gold-Medal-Logo_gold-and-black.jpg?resize=1536%2C325&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Gold-Medal-Logo_gold-and-black.jpg?resize=2048%2C434&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Gold-Medal-Logo_gold-and-black.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Gold-Medal-Logo_gold-and-black.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Proud sponsor of South Adams athletics on WZBD.com!<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Laney Trausch stepped into the setter position and delivered a solid opening performance, picking up 20 assists and burning the Bruins for five aces. She also tallied five digs over the three sets.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"1280\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 720 \/ 1280;\" width=\"720\" controls src=\"http:\/\/98.158.76.108\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Sequence-02.mp4\"><\/video><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The Starfires score the final point with a couple of nice digs against Blackford Monday night. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Aside from Pries\u2019s 15 points, South Adams got nine kills from Reagan Bollenbacher and five kills apiece from Avery Brown, Reagan Beitler and Gracy Bixler. Beitler also had 11 assists as the Starfires attempt to work out their best rotation early in the season.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=100094000205783\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"76\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/98.158.76.108\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/RelaxRecover-1024x121.jpg?resize=640%2C76\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/RelaxRecover-scaled.jpg?resize=1024%2C121&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/RelaxRecover-scaled.jpg?resize=300%2C35&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/RelaxRecover-scaled.jpg?resize=768%2C91&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/RelaxRecover-scaled.jpg?resize=1536%2C182&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/RelaxRecover-scaled.jpg?resize=2048%2C242&amp;ssl=1 2048w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/RelaxRecover-scaled.jpg?w=1280&amp;ssl=1 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/RelaxRecover-scaled.jpg?w=1920&amp;ssl=1 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Pries led the team with 11 digs, while Makenzie Miller had six and Trausch added five.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Starfire Junior Varsity team won in two sets, 25-18, 25-22. GinaMarie Summersett had five kills and Riley Bollenbacher had four aces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DANE FUELLING WZBD.com Looking to win a fourth consecutive sectional title in 2023, the South Adams Starfires began<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[15,28,26,55],"class_list":["post-5206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-featured","tag-southadams","tag-sports","tag-volleyball"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wzbd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/DSC_0145-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1696&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206","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=5206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wzbd.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}