Boys Volleyball secures postseason 18th straight season

Behind an easy 3-0 sweep of Maloney Monday afternoon, the Indians collected their eighth win of the year to qualify for the Class M state tournament. Newington (8-1) won by set scores of 25-15, 25-11, 25-21.

“We’ve made the tournament every year since it’s been sanctioned by the CIAC,” Indians head coach Curt Burns said. “We’re happy to get that spot clinched, but want to keep working on maintaining that to get a high seed in the state tournament.”

Louis Egbuna led Newington with nine kills, while teammates Teddy Fravel and Riley Miller had five and four kills respectively. Evan Metzger finished with 25 assists.

But it just wasn’t the postseason berth that was important to Burns and his season, it was also about responding to a tough loss to East Hartford at the end of last week.

“Maloney is a young team,” Burns said. “Sometimes when you play those teams, it’s hard to get motivated, but our guys did a nice job of responding after last week.”

Courtesy of the NB Herald