It was a week of long volleyball matches. Journal covered teams played three five-set affairs and four four-set affairs. Monday saw Kingsland and Houston resume their match from a week earlier. Houston led 1-0 before postponement per floor condensation. The Hurricanes led the match 2-1 before the Knights took the final two sets for the comeback 3-2 win (21-25, 25-21, 21-25, 25-15, 17-15). Set five was tied a 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15. Houston was at match point (15-14). Kingsland scored the last three (two Ellie Buchholtz kills). Hitter Buchholtz (15 kills, 9 assists, 18 digs) and setter Alyssa Link (23 assists, 8 digs) led the way. Shelby Beck (8 kills, 19-20 serving, 3 aces), Audrey Webster (14 digs), and Hannah Peshel (8 digs, 20-22 serving) helped. Zoe Scrabeck had five aces all in game two. Tessa Peterson hit it where Kingsland wasn’t (team-high 16 kills). Emma Geiwitz (6 kills, 4 aces), Casey Porter (24 assists, 14 digs), Jenny Albrecht (13 digs), and Becca Rostad (11 digs, 3 aces) helped team ‘Cane.
A night later, FC (3-1, 8-7) and L-A (4-0, 12-4) went five sets in an upper-echelon TRC match. For the second straight year, the Falcons fell behind 2-1 only to rally for the 3-2 win (16-25, 25-17, 10-25, 25-21, 15-11). Kandace Sikkink (10 kills, 25 assists, 18 digs, 19-20 serving) and Lauren Mensink (14 kills, 12 assists, 16 digs) posted double-doubles. Maddie Krage added 14 kills. K.J. Corson had 25 digs. Ciarra McNally (20 kills, 22 digs) and Kylie Kreidermacher (29 assists, 17 digs) led the Cardinals. L-A started the year 12-0. Their four other losses came at the Class AA Showcase. Meanwhile in Rushford, R-P downed the Houston 3-1 (25-15, 19-25, 25-16, 25-12). Kaleah Davis (13 kills, 9 digs) and Kaylee Ruberg (9 kills, 9 digs) led the offense, set by Isabelle Kahoun (27 assists, 11 digs). Lakyn Rasmussen (5 kills, 20 digs, 19-19 serving) and Alyvia Eide (20 digs, 19-20 serving) did defensive work. Elly Malone (4 kills, 13 digs) and Alora Wilkemeyer (5 kills) helped out. Albrecht (10 kills, 17 digs, 6 blks), Geiwitz (7 kills), Rostad (11 digs), Peterson (5 kills), and Lilly Carr (15 assists) led Houston.
On Thursday, Chatfield led W-K 2-1, but fell in five sets (25-14, 22-25, 25-22, 12-25, 10-15). Zayda Priebe (13 kills, 4 blks), Mollie Henry (12 kills), Paige Erickson (9 kills), and Kielan LaPlante (9 kills) led the “O”. Devann Clemens (21 assists, 10 digs) and Teagan Allen (21 assists, 17-17 serving) set. Peyton Berg (23 digs) and Abby Nosbisch (19 digs) played defense. Competitive without many “Ws”, Chatfield is 1-2 in five sets, 1-4 in four sets.
The sophomore libero Berg has 106 digs in six TRC matches (17.7 per). Elsewhere, FC and Cotter played a hard fought four-set affair. The Falcons fell 3-1 (27-29, 25-27, 25-16, 22-25). FC had 127 digs. K.J. Corson had 48 including getting her 1,000th. Mensink (15 kills, 18 assists, 24 digs) and Sikkink (14 kills, 21 assists, 11 digs, 27-29 serving, 6 aces) again had double doubles, Krage again 14 kills. Ashlyn Simon added 20 digs, Hope Sexton 18. Corson has 161 digs across six TRC matches (26.8 per). Elsewhere, Houston fell to Schaeffer Academy in four, 3-1 (25-16, 17-25, 27-29, 19-25). Albrecht (8 kills, 4 blks), Peterson (6 kills, 17 digs), and Carr (15 assists) did work. Finally, R-P won its second four-set affair of the week, downing D-E 3-1 (25-10, 25-23, 20-25, 26-24). Davis (12 kills, 4 aces, 4 blks), Ruberg (12 kills), and Wilkemeyer (7 kills) did the hitting. Kahoun (22 assists, 14 digs), Eide (31 digs, 18-18 serving), Malone (18 digs), and Rasmussen (20 digs) combined for 83 digs. Eide, a junior libero, has 151 digs across six TRC matches (25.3 per). Records: FC (4-2, 9-8), R-P (2-5, 8-12), Chatfield (2-4, 7-10), Houston (3-6, 5-16).
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