UPDATE: Melrose Volleyball falls in first round to Hingham 3-1 in Halloween battle

Post publication update:
No. 17 Melrose falls to No. 16 Hingham on road in first round of Div. 2 state tournament (Oct. 31)

Published October 30, 2025

Volleyball team locked, loaded & ready for playoffs

Will travel to Hingham for Round 1 Halloween battle
By JENNIFER GENTILE

THERE WAS plenty to celebrate last Friday evening for the Melrose High girls’ volleyball team, who honored their outgoing seniors of Senior Night and saw one of them, Sabine Wenzel, break a school record. (photo by Raj Das, edphotos.com)

MELROSE—It was a record-breaking week for the Melrose High girls’ varsity volleyball team, no strangers to playoffs, and they officially kick off their Div. 2 post season journey tonight with a road opener in Hingham. They enter on the heels of two straight league wins, to finish their regular season at 13-7.

On Tuesday, the MIAA released their Div. 2 playoff brackets and Melrose has drawn the No. 17 spot, and, for the first time in several years, they are traveling in the opening round of playoffs.

But it was a historic moment on Friday, Oct. 24 when Melrose senior captain Sabine Wenzel broke the single season kill record at Melrose High with 342 kills. Wenzel, a Div. 1 commit, also leads the state in kills with a current total of 348, making her a real threat against any Div. 2 rival.

Melrose grabbed two league wins last week against Stoneham and Watertown (the game in which Wenzel earned her feat) to finish 3^rd in the Freedom League.

Friday evening was Senior Night and the team happily honored their four upperclassmen, departing players Emme Boyer, Sabine Wenzel, Adele Akland and Juliet Chevalier. It was a senior special indeed as many of them were key in the 25-17, 25-12, 25-16 win. Wenzel led with 7 kills while Boyer and Chevalier had 5 and 3 kills apiece. Underclassmen Adriana Santoriello, Ella Friedlaender both contributed with 5 and Elise Marchais had 4. Melrose benefitted from great serving from Alisa Doutovic, who was lights out, along with teammates Maggie Shoemaker and Anna Burns.

Melrose was equally as dominant in their game against Stoneham just days earlier when they beat Spartans in sets of 25-8, 25-11 and 25-12. Wenzel was dominant with 17 kills and Melrose saw some great serving from Danielle DiGiorgio who was 100% at the line, along with Alisa Dautovic who had 21 service points. In the game, setter Sadie Smith had 27 assists.

IT WAS a night to remember for the 2025 Melrose High varsity volleyball team, who celebrated their Senior Night last week. Pictured from left Sabine Wenzel, Juliet Chevalier, Adele Akland and Emme Boyer. (photo by Raj Das, edphotos.com)

Despite the two wins, Melrose (11-5 ML) must settle for Wakefield winning the Freedom League, for the first time ever, this year. Despite Melrose beating the Warriors early in the season, Wakefield put on a mid season run that led them to a strong 16-4 season.

Melrose will hope that in playoffs “all records are out the window” and they’ll face a rather unknown Hingham team tonight, who hosts Melrose with a record of 12-9 and plays in a fairly challenging Patriot League where they rank 4^th. Melrose will hope to haunt the Harbormen this Halloween. The winner of this game may advance to play No. 1 seed Oliver Ames, in a game that would also be on the road for Melrose.

For up to date information on their playoff run visit our social media pages and the MIAA website www.MIAA.net.