Playing in her final home game of the season Thursday, Reilly Malone knew with two more points, she and her Bishop Seabury Academy teammates would put away in-town rival Veritas Christian on Senior Night.

The four-year starter also knew her coach was about to pull her from the game, so her name could be announced over the gymnasium speakers one last time.

“Regan, set me before I go out,” Malone told the Seahawks’ junior assist specialist, Regan Zaremba.

The setter followed the plan, Malone hammered a kill and her coach, Christina Leuty, fought back tears as the senior middle hitter left the floor with a celebratory smile.

Seabury swept Veritas, 25-16, 25-18, and afterward Malone explained why she had better luck keeping her emotions in check than her coach.

“I cried when we walked out,” she said of pre-game introductions, “but I was in game mode.”

Leuty, on the other hand, had even started crying hours before, while making an announcement about Senior Night at school. So of course she got caught in the moment when Malone scored the penultimate point of the victory before subbing out.

“It was really, really awesome to see her go out on a note like that,” Leuty said. “She’s had a fantastic year, a year that no one really expected out of her.”

The coach said it was an emotional evening for all three Seabury seniors — Malone, Michaela Miller and Shaylene Rees.

Said Malone: “I’ve been here for so long, and to finally be a senior and play your last volleyball game here at home, it’s nice, but it’s a little bit saddening.”

The Seahawks (18-13) at least finished with a victory, after falling, 25-16, 25-23, to Kansas City East Christian Academy. Seabury junior Ellen Almanza put away seven kills against Veritas, which trailed 20-7 late in the second set before senior Lacey Billings began dominating at the net and sophomore Alyssa Krestan scored a kill in a late rally that cut the Eagles’ deficit from 13 to five.

Veritas coach Kyle Billings, whose Eagles lost, 25-19, 25-14, to KCECA, said his team knows it is capable of playing like it did at the end of the night.

“Whenever they play hard like that, good things happen,” the coach said. “Today they just didn’t play hard very much.”

Added Lacey: “When we do play the best that we can… We’re capable of a lot more. The issue is just playing that way.”