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Inverness Rebels will play Division 1 girls volleyball

Inverness Rebels forward Sarah Ryan hits a devastating spike for a point during an exhibition high school girls volleyball game on Thursday at Dalbrae Academy.


October 20, 2021

-by Bill Dunphy
    The Inverness Rebels high school girls volleyball team is going where no Inverness County team in any sport has gone before.
    With half-a-dozen pre-season wins under their belt, including two against Riverview and Sydney Academy, the Rebels have decided to play Division 1 volleyball this season.
    Coach Andrew Campbell said he encouraged the girls to consider, and in the end it was their decision.
    “Was our goal to win a banner or to get better at volleyball? We have a few players who will play beyond high school, so I left it up to them. Every girl on the team, seniors and rookies, agreed it was the right decision,” he said.


    Division 1 is the designation the biggest schools in Nova Scotia play in, from Charles P. Allen with a school population of 1,559 to Dr. John H. Gillis at 548. Inverness Education Centre Academy has a high school population of 49, which would normally place them in Division 3.
    “We spend so much time practising and training, then going into games kind of knowing what the outcome would be. And even in Division 3, we still had to travel quite a bit,” said Campbell.
    “We were thinking of going into Division 2, but the NSSAF rescinded the rule that required you to play two years in a division before going back.
    “So far it seems like the right decision,” he said.
    Along with the wins against the two Division 1 Sydney schools, the Rebels have defeated SAERC and Dalbrae, both Division 2 schools.
    In a pair of exhibition games at Dalbrae on Thursday, the Rebels won 26-24 and 25-16.
    In the first game, Dalbrae gave as good as they took, battling to a 24-24 tie before the Rebels’ Sarah Ryan ended it with two killer spikes in a row.
    The Rebels are back on the court this Saturday when they host SAERC, Riverview, and Sydney Academy in another round-robin tournament.
    Using two courts, play begins at 12:30 p.m. with each team playing three games back-to-back.
    Next weekend Inverness will take to the road for games against Cobequid Education Centre, Citadel, and Halifax.


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 






 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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