Whitehall’s boys volleyball team ended the regular season on a sour note, having lost to Northampton, 3-0, last Wednesday at Northampton, but hope to sweeten their post season play this week in the East Penn Conference Tournament.

“We’ve got to look at film and evaluate what’s really going on here, and see where we are, and just chalk it up to bad volleyball,” said Whitehall coach George Cowitch after the match. “At some point in time, they’ve got to take accountability of themselves. It’s not like [Northampton’s] that much of a better team. That one’s on us.”

Whitehall and Northampton entered the match with identical 14-1 conference records.

“We never even started the match. We never decided to play volleyball tonight. That hurts,” Coach Cowitch said. “Coming off a good practice yesterday to doing what we did today is not who we are. It’s a regular season match, a big match, and I think it got too big for some of our guys out there, and that’s unfortunate, so we’ve got to talk about that and we’ll go from there, but we can’t let that happen again. If we do, it’s a quick season in the post season.”

The first set (19-25) saw five missed serves by the Zephyrs, and the Konkrete Kids took advantage, maintaining a five to six point lead throughout the set.

The Zephyrs kept the second set (13-25) score close early with points from Torrey Tyson, Devin Donatelli, and blocks by Jack Kocher and Gavin Kneller, but after a huge block by Northampton’s Keller Repasch and Alex Schoenen, the K-Kids widened the gap by as much as 11 points.

Whitehall scored four straight points halfway through the third set (21-25) to pull within one point on a kill by Tommy Buskirk, but the K-Kids pulled away again and for good.

Buskirk registered four kills in all, Donatelli had seven, and Tyson tallied 11.

Ethan Ringenberger had 10 digs, and Aiden Sommer added eight, also for the Zephyrs.

“I told them, ‘We only have two games that’s guaranteed in your careers. You have an EPC semi, and you have a District XI matchup, so that’s all you get, so you get to extend it how much you want. That’s the way it works,’” Cowitch said. “But yeah, that was a tough one.”