{"id":76297,"date":"2026-08-26T21:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/76297\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T21:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T21:27:08","slug":"spain-park-wins-opening-five-set-match-of-year-with-northrid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/76297\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain Park wins opening five-set match of year with Northrid&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">That made the third set a crucial one to decide who would control the match the rest of the way. Luckily for the hosts, it was Spain Park.<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">SPHS took command of the third set and put on a convincing showing to finish strong with a 25-18 victory. That put Spain Park up 2-1 in the third set and just one game away from victory.<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">However, NHS didn\u2019t go down without a fight and made life difficult for SPHS to close out the match. Nevertheless, Spain Park saw out the match victory by winning the fourth set by a score of 25-19.<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">The fourth-set win polished off the 3-1 win in the match and gave SPHS another big early-season victory.<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">Peyton Harrington led the attack with 19 kills as well as 12 digs, two aces and a block. Chloe Shumate joined her in double figures with 16 kills, four digs, a block and two assists. Sarah Latham nearly did as well with nine kills but stepped up for three total blocks.<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">Lynlee Franks facilitated the offense with 35 assists while also chipping in 16 digs defensively.<\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">On defense, Camdyn Kyes held steady with 23 digs and a 2.47 serve-receive rating off 30 receptions. She also secured three aces and three assists. <\/p>\n<p data-wisiwig-body1=\"true\" class=\"txtStyle_body1 mb_$body1\">Spain Park improved to 8-1 overall with the win. The Jags will hit the road on Thursday, Aug. 27 at 5:30 p.m. to face the Bob Jones Patriots. They will then return to Birmingham for a unique outdoor game at Vestavia Hills\u2019 Wald Park, where they will face the Mountain Brook Spartans. First serve is scheduled for 5 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That made the third set a crucial one to decide who would control the match the rest of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[543,541,17,539,540,28356],"class_list":["post-76297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-280-reporter","tag-hoover","tag-spain","tag-spain-park","tag-spain-park-high-school","tag-volleyball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}