Ipswich outlasted North Central 3-0 in girls' high school volley action Monday evening in Ipswich. It was indeed a straight-sets win against a scrappy Thunder team that continued to improve as the evening progressed along.

"They were very scrappy just as we anticipated," said IHS coach Trent Osborne. "We were able to get them out of system with our serving enough to get ourselves some good swings in transition offense. I thought our passers and setters really did a nice job of getting the hitters some great looks.”

Ipswich won the initial set 25-12, the next one 25-15 and held on for a 25...