Volleyball: Edgren earns sweep after long journey south

Zama's Kierstyn Aumua spikes against Nile C. Kinnick's Cierra San Nicolas during Saturday's DODEA-Japan volleyball match. The Red Devils won in four sets. (Dave Ornauer/Stars and Stripes)
Zama's Kierstyn Aumua spikes against Nile C. Kinnick's Cierra San Nicolas during Saturday's DODEA-Japan volleyball match. The Red Devils won in four sets. (Dave Ornauer/Stars and Stripes)

Volleyball: Edgren earns sweep after long journey south

by Dave Ornauer
Stars and Stripes

CAMP ZAMA, Japan – They were expecting a difficult test following a 10-hour bus ride south from Misawa Air Base, Elizabeth Johnson said of her Robert D. Edgren Eagles’ DODEA-Japan weekend volleyball series.

What they got instead was a four-match sweep, two apiece over host Zama, the 2019 Far East Division II Tournament champion, and Nile C. Kinnick, which the Eagles hadn’t beaten in five years.

“We expected Zama and Kinnick to be tough games,” said Johnson, a freshman who averaged more than eight kills in the Eagles’ four straight-set victories. “Our practice paid off.”

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