First the soaring: The Tigers swept Yellow Medicine East Tuesday at
YME. Scores were 25-11, 25-17 and 25-16. On Thursday the Tigers were
swept by the Braves of Benson with scores of 23-25, 23-25 and 15-25.
Tigers 3, YME 0
The Tigers executed smoothly on the Sting's court, continuing an
impressive stretch in the 2012 slate. The Sting weren't sure who was
going to deliver the next kill at them. MACA had a balanced stance in that
department as three individuals performed at least ten.
Sydney Engebretson is always a Tiger to watch in hitting. She came
at the Sting with 23 good hits in 24 attempts and 12 kills. Then we have
Paige Schieler with 22-for-23 numbers and eleven kills. Tiger No. 3
with at least ten kills was MicKenley Nagel, who incidentally is
Homecoming queen - congratulations - and she had 15 good in 15 attempts
with ten kills. Nicole Strobel had her moments at the net, pounding down
four kills while posting eleven good in 14 attempts. Katie Holzheimer
was a perfect seven-for-seven with two kills.
Aggressiveness at the net was shown in blocking too. Engebretson
and Strobel each went up to perform two ace blocks. Nagel and Holzheimer
each had one.
Mikeala Henrichs led again in digs with her 19 followed by
Engebretson with ten and Holland with six. Holzheimer and Chelsey
Ehleringer were the workhorses in setting. Holzheimer contributed 18 set
assists while having 32 good in 34 attempts. Ehleringer dashed around
to deftly execute 12 assists while going 35-for-38. Kayla Pring went
three-for-three with one assist.
On to serving: Holzheimer and Engebretson each came through with
two serving aces. Holzheimer had eleven good serves in 13 attempts, and
Engebretson posted 11-for-12 numbers. Ehleringer let fly with one ace
serve while going 14-for-14. Beth Holland went 19-for-19 with no aces.
YME was led by Chyanne Sand who pounded down eleven kills and collected four ace blocks.
Benson 3, Tigers 0
The Tigers drifted back down to earth as they struggled in facing
the Benson Braves Thursday. Emma Peterson was a big force for Benson.
She produced 18 kills and five ace serves in her team's sweep.
The loss didn't put that much of a blemish on the Tigers' record.
They conclude Homecoming week with quite fine W/L numbers of 13-7
overall and 6-3 in conference. It's just unfortunate that a sweep loss
happened for Homecoming week. The match was played a day after the
powder puff football game.
Benson now has a 9-9 overall record and 5-4 showing in conference.
Beth Erhardt made her presence felt on the court for the Braves. She
pounded four kills and went up for four ace blocks. Bri Staton produced
five kills.
For the Tigers, Paige Schieler was a force with 15 kills and
49-for-56 numbers in hitting. Sydney Engebretson had nine kills and went
34-for-37. Nicole Strobel and MicKenley Nagel each had four kills.
Strobel had 12 good in 15 attempts and Nagel went 13-for-13. Chelsey
Ehleringer had five good, five attempts and one kill.
Engebretson had an ace block. Henrichs set the pace in digs with
her 28, and Ehleringer executed well in that department too with 19.
Holzheimer and Ehleringer scurried about to set the ball in an effective
way. Ehleringer led in set assists with 14 while going 73-for-74 in
good/attempts. Holzheimer produced 12 assists while going 53-for-54.
Nagel came through with an assist.
The Tigers could have used a little more powerful serving. They had
just one serving ace and it was by Strobel who was seven-for-ten.
Holzheimer and Ehleringer both went nine-for-nine.
- Brian Williams - morris mn minnesota - bwilly73@yahoo.com
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