Boys volleyball: Senior hitters help Palatine past Lake Zurich

Boys volleyball

Palatine's boys volleyball team got big hitting efforts from seniors Johnny O'Shea and Leo Donlin in claiming a 25-17, 26-24 victory over visiting Lake Zurich on Monday in a nonconference matchup.

O'Shea was 14-for-16 on the attack for 8 kills, and Donlin finished 11-for-13 with 6 kills.

Conor McGarvey had team-bests of 11 setting assists, 15 digs and also produced an 8-for-8 service effort with an ace.

Providing efficient attack numbers for the Pirates were Bryant Smith (8-for-8, 2 kills) and Connor Nix (3-for-3, 2 kills).

Smith and O'Shea shared the team lead in blocks with 3 apiece, and O'Shea (9 digs) and Camden Hill (8 digs) also had strong defensive games.

Wheeling d. Maine East: AJ Ruttenberg produced a 16-for-17 serving effort with 3 aces to help spark the Wildcats past Maine East in nonconference play.

Wheeling squared its record at 10-10.

Jared Moser (16-for-20, 10 kills) and Jan Baranowski (7-8, 4 kills) led the attack, while Joseph Hernandez had a team-high 14 digs and Jared Urueta provided 18 setting assists.

Stevenson d. Hersey: The host Patriots accomplished what not many others have been able to do in topping the Huskies 25-20, 29-27 in a nonconference test.

Hersey's Jake Mailloux finished 18-for-22 on the attack with 12 kills, and the Huskies also got big hitting efforts from Joe Nugent (13-for-15, 11 kills) and Camran Saeed (13-for-16, 6 kills).

Jakub Migus came up with 32 setting assists for Hersey (10-2). Other big contributors included Corey Irwin (11-for-11 serving, 1 ace), Christian Hong and Saeed (7 digs apiece) and Nugent (team-best 5 blocks).

Leading the Stevenson attack were Leo Chen (10 kills) and Gavin Meng and Justin Ross (5 kills apiece).

Will Sorenson provided 22 assists and George Lie had a team-best 8 digs for the Patriots (16-4), who over the weekend took top honors in the Lake County Invitational.