Girls volleyball: Assists aplenty for hot Fremont, clipping Clearfield in 4 sets
Mailoto: Silverwolves far from burnt out, eyeing perfect September
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- Fremont’s Maya Jensen, center #32, serves during a region girls volleyball contest at Clearfield on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025, in Clearfield.
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- Clearfield’s Erin Lowry serves during a region girls volleyball contest vs. Fremont on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025, in Clearfield.
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- Fremont’s Tayler Webber serves during a region girls volleyball contest at Clearfield on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025, in Clearfield.
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- Clearfield’s Reagan Ford, right, hammers the ball past Fremont’s Mia McArthur, left, 2, during a region girls volleyball contest on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025, in Clearfield.
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- Clearfield celebrates a point during a region girls volleyball contest vs. Fremont on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2025, in Clearfield.
CLEARFIELD — Few Northern Utah volleyball programs are burning the same kind of rubber Fremont has this month.
The young Silverwolves clawed a seventh consecutive win at Clearfield on Thursday night, with the former emerging on top through four sets (25-19, 25-18, 21-25, 25-18) to claim the season series against the Falcons.
Visibly fresh on the road, Fremont (17-1, 7-0 Region 5) listed six players with double-digit performance in one or more stats, including four Silverwolves with 10 or more kills. Junior outside hitter Olivia Surrage, racking up 14 kills and 14 digs, managed the volleyball equivalent of a double-double.
Junior Brooklyn Smedley (19 assists, three digs) and freshman Ellie McArthur (17 assists, three kills) made themselves especially useful, setting-wise. In the front court, senior Maya Jensen rivaled Surrage with 12 kills, and junior Kylee Harper produced another 10 on Clearfield.
“I think they’re having fun still,” Fremont coach Analaine Mailoto said. “They’re not getting burned out.”
Those numbers largely kept Fremont a step ahead of the Falcons (9-8, 3-4), who fell behind by two sets to begin the home bout on the hot seat. Clearfield junior libero Erin Lowry, coming up with a team-high 15 digs on defense, helped her side jump ahead by seven to begin the third set.
A match-high 25 assists, as well as eight digs, by Clearfield senior outside hitter Reagan Ford certainly helped Lowry’s cause, and the Falcons seized the third set 25-21 to force another.
Fremont ultimately overwhelmed Clearfield with a 10-4 start to the fourth set, and clung to a five-point lead down the stretch to end the evening. Senior utility Amoree Scholer finished with 12 kills, and Ford added another nine for Clearfield.
Despite having lost four straight matches, Clearfield coach Brooke Pehrson came away from Thursday’s contest confident in her team’s ability to press a Fremont side they’d been swept by just a few weeks ago.
“They’ve finally understood that they can compete. I’ve been trying to get them to understand all season long that, ‘Hey, we’re going to go play good teams, but that we’re a good team (too).’ Getting them to understand that we can compete and play at a high level has been huge for us.”
Another key region matchup arrives early next week when Fremont hosts Northridge on Tuesday, Sept. 30, in Plain City. Clearfield enjoys an extended break before its next chance at snapping its four-game losing streak at Box Elder on Thursday, Oct. 2.
Connect with reporter Conner Becker via email at cbecker@standard.net and X @ctbecker.
