The Northampton girls volleyball team finished off a season sweep of Whitehall last Thursday night in Pete Schneider Gymnasium. It took four sets for the Kids to clinch another Cement Belt Challenge point. The scores were: 25-5, 13-25, 25-12, and 25-11.

Northampton ran off the last 14 points of the first set, 13 of those on Mya Cascario’s serve.

Whitehall turned the tables in the second set, winning the last 10 points against a K-Kids’ lineup that featured several subs.

Head coach Jess Finlayson returned to her normal rotation in the third and fourth sets and Northampton demonstrated that they were unequivocally the better team.

As in their previous matchup with the Zephyrs, the frontline dominated play as the Kids had more kills, 37-20 and more blocks, 12-8.

Brooke Rockovits had 11 kills to go with 8 digs. Alexa Barowski had 10 kills. Lindsey Nemeth had 9 kills and 8 digs.

Mel Hockman led the team with 12 digs. Cascario and Sydney Heffner both had 11 digs. Heffner dished out 33 assists from her setter position.

The 10th win of the Kids’ season set the table for a final push to qualify for their first EPC tournament.

A pair of losses to Parkland (3 sets) and Central (4 sets) on Monday and Tuesday takes EPC playoff qualification out Northampton’s control. To get in, the Kids need to go on the road Thursday and beat Nazareth (Northampton won in straight sets on September 20) and they need Pleasant Valley to beat Stroudsburg to claim the EPC Mountain Division title. Pleasant Valley lost at Stroudsburg in five sets on September 13.

If Stroudsburg wins, the two Mountain Division teams will have 10 conference wins each and they will both qualify over the winner of Nazareth and Northampton, who have had to battle through the much tougher Skyline Division schedule.