On senior night for the Bethany volleyball team at the Menno Lands, one senior went down and another stepped up. Hesston College-bound Kate Steury sprained her ankle during the warmup session; coach Lois Mast said her return, which was questionable and eventual, may have provided extra incentive for the team to succeed.
Bethany took a 2-0 set lead at 25-22, 25-15 before Elkhart Christian responded by taking the third and fourth sets at 22 and 17 points. On the first point of the fifth and deciding set, the momentum would shift again. Greg Keim of the Goshen News described that shift thus:
On the initial serve in the fifth and final game by ECA junior Kayley Baughman, Bethany’s dig appeared to be headed out of bounds. That’s when [senior Andrea] Born made a lunging save and the Bruins were able to get the ball over the net for a 1-0 lead.Mast would later describe the play as “awesome,” citing it as an example of the Bruins’ superior defense that night — even if it was against themselves.
Bethany prevailed 25-22, 25-15, 22-25, 17-25, 15-12.
#10. October 17: Yoder scores on a corner
With 11 minutes elapsed in the scoreless soccer match sectional championship soccer match at Bodiker Field, referee Walt MacRae pointed toward the pitch’s southeast corner and awarded a penalty kick to the host Bruins. Midfielder Sharisse Yoder stepped up to take the kick, as she had many times over the season, and sent it on a line into Warsaw penalty area. The ball caromed off the right shoulder of Tiger goalkeeper Diana Monroy, hit the crossbar, and fell into the goal to give Bethany a 1-0 lead. It would be Bethany’s only shot on goal for the night, leaving them to play defense for over 68 minutes.
(More from this game coming later in the series.)
#9. May 15: Lehman hurls a one-hitter
In their first two turns at bat, Elkhart Christian managed two runs off Bruin pitcher Mattie Lehman despite a single from Annalisa Puckett being their sole tally in the hits column. But the 2-0 score after 1½ (or, for that matter, 3½) innings was as close as the Eagles would get. Bethany exploded for five runs in the fourth inning, all against starting pitcher Carrie Risner, and held the Eagles hitless for three more innings to close out game one with a 5-2 victory despite mustering only four singles and a double themselves. Puckett’s would be the only Eagle hit.
#8. September 15: Snyder goal propels BC over Goshen
Is it possible for a freshman in his twelfth high-school contest to dramatically alter the outcome? Yes. Does it happen? Not usually. But on a Tuesday night in September, Andrew Snyder turned the usual on its head, driving home a free kick with under seven minutes to play and giving the Bruins a 1-0 lead in their annual tussle with Goshen for city bragging rights. Jeff Yoder made seven saves that night to ensure that Bethany would come out ahead by the same score, at least until the teams met in the sectional final on the same field 25 days later. And while Snyder would score five other goals in 2009, part of a freshman trio that tallied 14 times for the varsity, none was more memorable than this.
Coming tomorrow: Bleeding Bruin Blue hits the hardwood for a pair of events from a memorable week in Hamilton.
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