A-C, G-E finish in top five at tournament
Published 12:00 am Tuesday, October 10, 2006
LEROY &045; The Alden-Conger and Glenville-Emmons volleyball teams took part in the LeRoy-Ostrander Tournament over the weekend. The Knights finished fourth while the Wolverines took fifth.
A-C opened pool play by splitting with Spring Grove 26-24, 19-25 but followed that up with an impressive victory over Grand Meadow 25-12, 25-20. In their final match of pool play the Knights were stopped by Rushford-Peterson 15-25, 20-25.
The Wolverines got off to a slow start in their pool play acton falling to Plainview-Elgin-Millville 19-25, 22-25 but rebounded against St. Mary&8217;s winning 25-11, 25-13. Hitting errors hurt the Wolverines in their final pool play match against the host team16-25, 17-25.
A-C advanced to the third place match were it fell to PCM 19-25, 17-25.
Haley Johnson was perfect at the service line in the match and Krista Mathiason led the team with six kills.
The Wolverines would face Grand Meadow in their final match and play their best all-around volleyball of the day winning 25-23, 25-21.
G-E got strong serving from Karissa Olson, Kailey Davis and Molly Kral to seal the win in each game.
Ashley Lau led the Wolverines with 26 kills, Jordan VanRyswyk added 22 and April Kosuge dished out 23 assists. Kral led the team with 26 digs and had six aces on the day.
At the Blue Earth Tournament, United South Central took fifth place.
The Rebels lost to SW Star to begin their day 25-25, 15-25, followed that with a tie of Martin County West 22-25, 25-15 and New
Richland 27-25, 24-26 before downing Albert Lea 25-21, 18-25, 15-9 to take fifth.
Ciara Christenson was a force serving the ball against the Tigers racking up five aces. Shawnee Sovell and Alesha Satre combined for nine blocks and Sam Sonnek added 10 digs. Sonnek was also a leader in the serve receive department going 14 of 17 on her chances.
NRHEG finished fourth in its pool at the tournament splitting with Martin County West (24-26, 25-16), losing to SW Star (26-28, 7-25) splitting with the Rebels and falling to MVL (24-26, 25-27) in its final match.
