GVB Out & About: 1AAA Semis: Both Lakeville teams move on

SECTION 1AAA SEMIS

Stats now added

There was not a lot of action in section play due to Halloween onWednesday, but section 1AAA wrapped up their semis with one team surviving a scare. #2 Lakeville South survived to face neighbor Lakeville North on Saturday in a rubber match. Both teams have won going the distance, LS in the regular season conference match up in five, LN in a tournament format in three. Both of the Lakeville victims reside in the Big 9. Rochester Century had one set where they gave the Panthers a fright. The Raiders of Northfield saw a 2-0 lead evaporate.

LAKEVILLE NORTH 3, ROCHESTER CENTURY 0
(25-12, 25-23, 25-16)

The defending section and AAA champ LN Panthers had two relatively uneventful wins sandwiching a nail-biter. In set two the RC Panthers pulled in front 23-22, the fourth lead change in the set on a kill by senior Nicole Lund. LN stopped the 3-1 run with a time out and finished off with the next three points capped by a block by Tori Thompson and Maddy Hornyak.

For the match LN had 47 kills to 27 for RC. LN senior Elizabeth Juhnke delivered 16 kills to lead all players. Two other North players had double digit kills: Macy Winter and Thompson each had 10 kills. Winter led all LN players with five first swing kills. She was matched by RC’s Amy Hargenrader with five first swing kills, but that was the extent of her scoring on attacks.

LAKEVILLE SOUTH 3, NORTHFIELD 2
(26-28, 22-25, 25-18, 25-21, 15-13)

LS had their holidays confused. They were in a giving mode in the early portion of the match giving away 17 points due to errors in the first set loss to the Raiders.  The Cougars led 15-7 which forced a Northfield time out. The Raiders rebounded with four straight points and were back in the game (15-11). LS added to their margin pulling out to a 21-15 lead. But five straight errors initiated with a serve that sailed deep followed by four straight hitting errors cut the lead to a thin 21-20 differential. After the side out, Northfield resumed their rally with two straight kills from Megan Reilly. LS held off set point twice. Then came four straight side outs. An over pass whiff hitting error followed by another LS hitting error gave the Raiders the two points needed for the first set win.

LS did clean up some of their errors in set two, but still gave away 11 points, four on serving errors. Early LS led 10-6. Northfield grabbed their first lead at 14-13 on a kill by Reilly. After LS tied it at 15 the error avalanche began anew with three straight Cougar hitting errors. LS recovered with a run of four to inch ahead 19-18. LS had a 21-20 advantage. A first swing kill by Linnea Larson started the final 5-1 push by Northfield putting the #2 seed in the hole 2-0.

LS cut their errors down to a manageable six and led the entire third set. There was a sequence of nine side outs with eight of them first terminations from 13-9 to 18-12 as both teams had their offenses clicking.

It was LS’s turn to rally in the fourth set. After racing out to a convincing 5-0 lead and forcing Northfield to call time it looked like it was going to be smooth sailing. But the errors returned with a vengeance. LS led 13-8 but a missed serve opened the door for a five more Northfield points. All told LS delivered five of those points on errors. After a side out Northfield tacked on three more points to lead 18-15 and forcing a second LS time out. With their backs against the wall LS responded with a side out kill on the first swing by Jasmine Mulvihill. Ties at 18, 19 followed. Then it was Northfield’s turn to give away points. Two straight ball handling errors returned the lead to LS. A kill by Nicole Banitt forced Northfield to burn the second time out. After a side out, LS finished with three different players connecting on kills.

The deciding fifth set had six ties, the last coming at 11 after a two point run by Northfield capped by a kill from Bronwyn Timperly. That prompted a LS time out and Carlee Gonzalez came up with a block  to get the Cougars the finishing kick they needed. The game was still in doubt after three straight side outs. Northfield had a chance to tie, but their serve sailed deep and LS wiped their brow in relief happy to survive into November.

Stats will follow tomorrow.

I am now back on the trail. My team wrapped up their season on Tuesday with the most wins since I have been at Henry and with the most post season wins too.

LAKEVILLE NORTH
1st & 3rd sets: Winter-Thompson-Wherland-Juhnke-Wolfe-Hornyak

2nd set: Wolfe-Hornyak-Winter-Thompson-Wherland-Juhnke

SRV # Name Pos Year A B K Points
1 4 Macy Winter OH 2019 1 0 10 11
  8 Izzy Fuerst DS 2021 0 0 0 0
2 7 Tori Thompson MH 2019 0 4.5 10 14.5
3 3 Amelia Wherland S 2019 1 0 2 3
4 5 Elizabeth Juhnke OH 2019 1 1 16 18
5 9 Halle Wolfe L 2020 0 0 0 0
  11 Abbey Milner MH 2021 0 0 7 7
6 2 Maddy Hornyak RH 2021 0 0.5 2 2.5
  6 Ella Wheatcraft DS 2021 0 0 0 0
totals         3 6 47 56

ROCHESTER CENTURY

SRV # Name Pos Year A B K Points
1 4 Rachel Schmitz L 2021 0 0 0 0
  5 Amy Hargenrader MH 2019 1 1.5 5 7.5
2 11 Ella Wieneke RH 2020 1 0 2 3
3 13 Ashlyn Meincke OH 2021 0 0 6 6
4 10 Nicole Lund MH 2019 0 3 8 11
5 2 Mina Wimmer S 2019 0 1.5 0 1.5
6 12 Rachel Fink OH 2019 1 0 6 7
totals         3 6 27 36

TRENCH PLAYER
Elizabeth Juhnke

 

EARNED      
Team 1 2 3
Lakeville North 18 19 20
Rochester Century 8 17 11
ALLOWED      
Lakeville North 4 6 5
Rochester Century 7 6 5

BY THE NUMBERS

Item Lakeville North Rochester Century
First Swing SO 15 16
Runs 3+ 12 5
Longest String 7 5
Missed Serves 4 2
Time outs 2/2-1.000 4/5-.800
Set points 3/3-1.000 none

RACE TO …

Set 5 10 15 20 25
1 LN LN LN LN LN
2 RC LN LN RC LN
3 LN LN LN LN LN

 

BIGGEST LEAD

Set 1 2 3
Lakeville North 13 2 10
Rochester Century 2 3 0

 

LAKEVILLE SOUTH
1ST & 2ND set: Stier-Banitt/Willman-Weidemann-Mulvihill-Moldan-Starkey
3rd, 4th & 5th set: Weidemann-Mulvihill-Moldan-Starkey-Stier-Willman

SRV # Name Ht Year A B K Points
1 1 Payton Stier DS 2020 1 0 1 2
  2 Carlee Gonzalez OH 2019 0 1 7 8
2 9 Nicole Banitt MH 2019 0 1.5 11 12.5
  5 Payton Willman DS 2021 0 0 0 0
3 12 Jasmine Weidemann S 2021 2 1 4 7
4 8 Jasmine Mulvihill OH 2019 1 0 27 28
5 3 Alena Moldan L 2019 0 0 0 0
  6 Emily Torborg MH 2020 0 2.5 7 9.5
6 4 Teagan Starkey DS 2021 0 0 0 0
  7 Ava Moes RH 2021 0 3 17 20
totals         4 9 74 87

NORTHFIELD

SRV # Name Pos Year A B K Points
1 10 Nora Lehmkuhl S 2019 0 0 0 0
  11 Stephanie Franz RH 2019 0 0.5 3 3.5
2 9 Rachel Wieber DS 2021 0 0 0 0
  13 Megan Reilly OH 2021 0 0.5 12 12.5
3 1 Emma Torstenson L 2021 0 0 0 0
  15 Emma Roethler MH 2019 0 4 4 8
4 18 Lida King S 2020 0 0 0 0
  12 Rachel Kelly RH 2019 0 2 8 10
5 7 Bronwyn Timperly OH 2020 0 0 9 9
6 16 Linnea Larson MH 2019 0 1 9 10
totals         0 8 45 53

TRENCH PLAYER
Alena Moldan

 

EARNED          
Team 1 2 3 4 5
Lakeville South 20 17 22 19 9
Northfield 11 14 12 7 9
ALLOWED          
Lakeville South 17 11 6 14 4
Northfield 6 5 3 6 6

BY THE NUMBERS

Item Lakeville South Northfield
First Swing SO 25 22
Runs 3+ 14 10
Longest String 5 6
Missed Serves 16 8
Time outs 6/7-.857 5/6-.833
Set points 3/6-.500 2/6-.333

RACE TO …

Set 5 10 15 20 25
1 LS LS LS LS N*
2 LS LS N LS N
3 LS LS LS LS LS
4 LS LS LS N LS
5 LS LS LS    

 

BIGGEST LEAD

Set 1 2 3 4 5
Lakeville South 8 4 8 5 2
Northfield 2 3 0 3 1

 

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