BLOOMFIELD — For the second time this calendar year, the Queen Bees are partying like it’s 1978.
Less than seven months after the Bloomfield girls basketball program reached state for the first time since the 1978-79 school year, the volleyball team ended a 48-year drought by battling past a pesky Exeter-Milligan-Friend squad 25-20, 18-25, 25-15, 25-14 on the Bees’ home court Saturday afternoon.
“We’ve seen the success last year for basketball, but we’ve never seen it for volleyball since the 1970s, so just to let this crowd know that we’re not just a basketball team, we’re also volleyball,” junior Madyson Mlady said after a match-high 18 kills and four solo blocks. “To just get there (to state) and be 29-0, it’s just something special.”
Bloomfield coach Gary Eisenhauer noted the raucous atmosphere.
“This means everything,” he said. “You’ve seen who was here, and how loud this crowd was. Gosh, our community supports us. It doesn’t matter what we do, and it’s just amazing how loud it was in here, how supportive it was in here, and listening to all the people afterwards.”
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