Out & About: Lakeville North/Apple Valley

#8 posting 9.23.2006
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APPLE VALLEY TOURNAMENT
Championship
Lakeville North 2, Apple Valley 1

The Lake conference is the toughest in the state of Minnesota for volleyball. They have six teams in the top 10. So it is no surprise that these two teams met. LN was #2 coming in, AV was #7.

With Kelsey Brandl leading the way early for LN the Panthers grabbed the early lead at 6-3. LN extended that lead to 9-6 after Cori Revsbeck serve. Apple Valley had a run of four points on Stephanie Henneman's serve and when she was done it was 14-13 LN. AV took their first lasting lead on when Kori Trenda had a side out kill on Brandl's serve. When Jennifer Johnson served she added three points, the first on an ace. AV's Catherine Earp was able to exploit the tip kill over the block on the left side for point 21 on Johnson's serve, and then to gain the side out on point 22. She then served up an ace to make it 23-19. She served out with Bowell putting down a kill for 24, and a block by Henneman and Wigen for 25.

LN jumped out quickly in game two with five straight points on Taylor Fieldsted's serve. Brandl had a hand in four of those points with a block and three kills. AV had to use a time out at 4-0. AV did come back and in fact tied it up at 8 on Earp's kill. LN reestablished its lead up to 10-8 and then breaks at 14-12, and 17-14. AV did close the game to 22-21 on Bowell's kill during Wigen's serve. Then Dani Roers had a big sideout kill for LN to give them some breathing room at 23-21. On Fieldsted's serve LN got their points on AV hitting and passing errors to finish the game 25-21.

That seemed to energize LN for game three. They started with a kill by Amy Braun and an AV passing error. AV took a quick time out at 2-0 and Natalie Simpson came up with a block for AV. Braun added two kills as LN built their lead to 8-3. After an AV point and sideout it was Brandl's serve. She had two straight aces with net cryers followed by a kill by Amanda Anderson to make it 12-4. AV took their last time out but another receiving error/ace made it 13-4. A Braun side out kill pushed it to 14-5. It was only a matter of time and for the second straight match a missed serve ended the game.

Serve order, Name, Position, Aces, Blocks, Kills---totals
LAKEVILLE NORTH
#1br Taylor Fieldsted, L 0-0-0---0
#1fr Kristen Zeise, RH 0-0-1--1
#1fr Amanda Anderson, MH 0-2.5-2--4.5
#2 Torey Broback, OH 1-.5-0--1.5
#3br Kayla Kirby, D 0-0-0---0
#3fr Dani Roers, OH 0-1-3--4
#4 Kelsey Brandl, MH 2-1-15--18
#5 Cori Revsbeck, S 0-0-1--1
#6 Amy Braun, OH 0-0-12--12
Total: 2-6-33-41 points, 18 points on AV errors

APPLE VALLEY
#1 Lauren Wigen, S 0-.5-0--.5
#2br Lisa Ruff, BR 0-0-0---0
#2fr Christen Bowell, OH 0-0-11---11
#3br Susan Halverson, L 0-0-0---0
#3fr Kalin Stenhaug, MH 0-0-1---1
#4br Jennifer Johnson, BR 1-0-0---1
#4fr Kori Trenda, RH 0-0-4---4
#5 Catherine Earp, OH 1-0-12--13
#6 Stephanie Henneman, MH 1-.5-0--1.5
#6 Natalie Simpson, MH 1-2-0---3
Totals: 4-3-28--35 points, 18 points on LN errors

PLAYER OF THE GAME
Kelsey Brandl a big difference maker, and she serves too.

team, 1stso/serves--1stso%; pts scored, % earned, % allowed
Lakeville North 11/27--.407; 59, .695, .340
Apple Valley 12/28--.429; 53, .660; .305
AV led in 1st ball side out, it wasn't dominating, but they led. They also only gave away 30% of LN's points.

LAKEVILLE NORTH rotation points
1 14-8 +6
2 10-9 +1
3 12-11 +1
4 10-8 +2
5 6-11 -5
6 6-8 -2

APPLE VALLEY rotation points
1 6-15 -9
2 9-12 -3
3 8-9 -1
4 13-12 +1
5 9-7 +2
6 8-4 +4

This is quite clear on the Brandl impact LN up +7 when she is in the front row, down 7 when she is not in the game period. She is in to serve on rotation 4. Look at AV's defense with Brandl in the front row -13. AV was up 7 when Brnadl was out.

Next up: tomorrow morning, whew