Out & About: Woodbury/Andover

#8 posting 10.11.2008
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EASTVIEW TOURNAMENT
3rd place
WOODBURY royals 2, ANDOVER huskies 1
(20-25, 25-21, 16-14)

In keeping with the theme of the day (three set matches) Woodbury beat Andover with a twist. This time the victor lost the first set. Also the Royals trailed 10-4 in set three when they went on a seven point run thanks in part to five straight Andover hitting errors. Andover led 14-12 when Michelle Graham got the key side out kill. Maddie Kelzenberg added two blocks including the final point for the win.

Woodbury held a 19-17 lead in set won when Andover scored six straight. Two overpass kills were part of the equation along with two Royal hitting errors. That took the momentum to the Husky side.

Andover led 10-7 in set two when Woodbury put together a six point run. Two services later they added another five point run to pull out to a 20-14 lead. Andover fought back with a 7-2 run to close to 22-21. A side out kill by Felicia Ulrich stopped the Huskies and forced an Andover time out. Ulrich put down an overpass kill and then a lift call ended the set.

Andover was in the driver's seat in the third set at 10-4 when the seven point swing hit with full force. Andover gift wrapped the last six of those points as they all involved passing or hitting errors. Andover did bounce back with a 4-1 run to be on the verge at 14-12 but a side out kill by Michelle Graham gave the Royals new hope. With Graham serving the taller Royals blocking game took over with two of the last three points with Maddie Kelzenberg providing blocks.

you can see the entire Woodbury vs Andover photo gallery at kevinanderson.photostockplus.com

rotation, player, position, aces-blocks-kills--totals
WOODBURY
1. Michelle Graham, 2009, S 0-0-6----6
2. Amy Bomgren, 2009, OH 1-0-4----5
3. Natalie Pascutoi, 2010, DS 0-0-1-----1
3fr. Maddie Kelzenberg, 2009, MH 0-5-3-----8
4s1. Bonnie Segl, 2009, S 0-0-0----0
4fr: Felicia Ulrich, 2011, OH 0-1-4----5
4s2&3. Emily Irey, 2010, S 0-0-0----0
5. Greta Strenger, 2009, OH 1-0-8----9
6. Jess Ulrich, 2009, L 1-0-0-----1
6fr. Rachel Johnson, 2010, MH 0-2-2-----4
totals: 3-8-28----39 points, 22 points on Andover errors

ANDOVER
The order below was used in set 1. In set 2&3 Cipperly and Evans/McNallan switched spots.
1. Sarah Kurtovich, 2009, S 1-0-0------1
1fr: Allison Borchert, 2010, RH 0-0-2----2
2. Lauren Cipperly, 2009, OH 1-0-14-----15
3. Shannyn Rosendahl, 2009, DS 0-0-0----0
3fr: Abby Cleveland, 2011, MH 0-0-6-----6
4. Nicole Husefeldt, 2010, S 2-2.5-6----10.5
5. Kayla Evans, 2009, OH 0-0-4-----4
5. Jenna McNallan, 2010, OH 0-0-6----6
6. Janelle Rupkalvis, 2012, MH 0-2.5-0----2.5
totals: 4-5-38-----47 points, 13 points on Woodbury errors

TRENCH PLAYER
Maddie Kelzenberg, 2 of the last three points came on her blocks

BY THE NUMBERS
team, fbso/fbso attempts; fbso %; points, % earned; % allowed
Woodbury 24/37-.649; 61; .639; .217
Andover 25/38-.658; 60; .783; .361
Runs 3+: Andover 7, Woodbury 6
Longest string: Woodbury 7, Andover 6
Missed Serves: Andover 4, Woodbury 3
Time Out %: Andover 0/4-.000; Woodbury 0/2-.000

ROTATIONS
WOODBURY
1. Graham 10-12 .455
2. Bomgren 16-9 .640
3. Pascutoi 8-12 .400
4. Segl 5-11 .313
5. Strenger 16-9 .640
6. Ulrich 6-7 .462
totals 61-60 .504

ANDOVER
1. Kurtovich 13-17 .433
2. Cipperly/Evans 9-8 .529
3. Rosendahl 12-6 .667
4. Husefeldt 10-16 .385
5. Evans/Cipperly 9-6 .600
6. Rupkalvis 7-8 .467
totals 60-61 .496

RACE TO:
Set: 5 10 15 20 25
set 1 A W W A A
set 2 W A W W W
set 3 A A W

BIGGEST LEAD
Team 1 2 3
Woodbury 3 6 2
Andover 5 3 6

next up: championship

Out & About: Andover/St. Michael-Albertville

#2 posting 8.21.2008
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ANDOVER huskies 3,
ST. MICHAEL-ALBERTVILLE knights 2
(25-27, 25-23, 25-22, 20-25, 15-11)

The Minnesota high school season opened with an upset as #4 St. Michael-Albertville fell to unranked Andover on the road 3-2. Both teams made the state tournament last year with Andover finishing second to Shakopee in the AAA finals. It also featured two D1 verbals on STMA, both lefties, and both right side players. Katherine Harms has verballed the Gophers, while setter Catherine Yager will be a Big 10 rival at Michigan. STMA's point generation is the right side. With Andover it is the left side. Cipperly and McNallon combined for 67% of the kills for Andover.

These two evenly matched teams were never far from each other. The biggest lead of the night occurred in game one when STMA had a 7 point lead. Speaking of even, Lauren Cipperly had 22 kills on the night to lead the Huskies, while her #8 counterpart on STMA, Katherine Harms also had 22 kills.

STMA's Harms put the Knights up early with a service run of six points including three aces as Andover struggled early. STMA led 11-6 after Harms was done serving. The biggest STMA lead came after a back row kill by Harms. At that point Harms had six points with 3 kills and 3 aces. Andover regained their passing touch with 11 straight first ball side outs. In so doing they tied the Knights at 22. Andover pulled ahead 24-23 on a tip kill by Nicole Husfeldt. A time out shifted the momentum back to STMA. Another tip kill, this time by Jenna McNallan put the Huskies on the verge at 25-24, but Harms put one down on a back row attack to give the ball back to the Knights. A block and then a kill by Harms ended game one 27-25. Harms had 10 of her 26.5 points in game one.

STMA had a slight advantage early in game two. STMA had the biggest lead in this game at 15-12 after a couple of aces by Maria Berning. Andover went on a 9-4 run to take a 21-19 lead. Five of those points were via STMA errors. Andover led 22-20 when STMA took a time out and regained the advantage. The Knights tied the contest up at 23 all. Andover took their time out and took advantage of a STMA hitting error. Lauren Cipperly ended game two with an ace.

STMA again had the advantage early building leads of 8-5, 14-10. They led as late as 16-13, but by then the Huskies had ramped up their side out game. To start game three Andover sided out at 1/6. They finished game three with a 5/6 side out rate. The key turning point in game three was a 9-1 run by the Huskies on Husfeldt and McNallon's serves. Andover stretched their lead out to 23-18 when a STMA time out stopped the advance. STMA rattled off four straight points to close to 23-22. Once again it was Cipperly that finished the game with two straight kills.

STMA led early 6-2 in game four. Andover surged back to take a 14-11 lead. The Huskies led 18-17 when the game turned to the Knights. They finished game four with a 8-2 run. Harms had six kills in game four.

In the first four games of the night the Knights won the race to 15 in every game. Not this time. STMA won the toss and elected to serve. Catherine Yager served deep and then the next three points went to Andover as the Knights hitting game was too juiced as the balls sailed deep. That 4-0 advantage forced a STMA time out. After the break STMA went on a 5-2 run. Andover stopped the mini-run with a kill by McNallon and an air tight side out game. For game five STMA sided out at 67%.

The interesting fact in this match---when Harms had six or more kills in a game, STMA won; when Cipperly had four or more kills, Andover won.

You can see the entire Andover vs STMA photo gallery at kevinanderson.photostockplus.com

ANDOVER
rotation, name, year, position, aces-blocks-kills----total points
1. Sarah Kurtovich (09) S 0-0-0----0
1fr: Kayla Evans (09) RS 0-0-3----3
2. Lauren Cipperly (09) OH 4-1-22---27
3. Alex Nelson (09) MH 0-0.5-6---6.5
3br: Shannyn Rosendahl (09) L
4. Nicole Husfeldt (10) S 2-1.5-6---9.5
5. Jenna McNallan (10) OH 3-0-15---18
6. Abby Cleveland (11) 0-1-3----4
6br: Shannyn Rosendahl (09) L 1-0-0---1
Totals: 10-3-55--68 points, 42 points on STMA errors

ST. MICHAEL-ALBERTVILLE
1. Catherine Yager (09) S 0-1-2----3
2. Maria Berning (09) OH 3-1-10---14
3. Samantha Dick (09) server 0-0-0----0
3fr: Carly Rothstein (10) 0-1.5-2---3.5
3fr: Rachel Hackenmueller (11) 0-0-0---0
4. Katherine Harms (09) RS 3-1.5-22---26.5
5. Brittani Wiese (09) OH 3-0-11---14
6. Allie Knutson (09) L 1-0-0----1
6fr: Marie O'Neill (09) MH 0-2-2----4
totals: 10-7-49---66 points, 42 points on Andover errors

TRENCH PLAYER
Lauren Cipperly. She is the signature player for the Huskies

BY THE NUMBERS
team, fbso/fbso attempts; fbso %; points, % earned; % allowed
Andover 35/63; .556; 110; .618; .389
St. Michael-Albertville 34/62; .548; 108; .611; .382
Runs 3+: Andover 13, STMA 13
Missed Serves: STMA 14, Andover 10
Time out %: STMA 4/6-.667; Andover 2/6-.333

ROTATIONS
ANDOVER
1. Kurtovich 16-16 .500
2. Cipperly 24-19 .558
3. Nelson 13-24 .351
4. Husfeldt 19-20 .487
5. McNallan 21-12 .636
6. Rosendahl 17-17 .500
totals: 110-108 .505

ST. MICHAEL-ALBERTVILLE
1. Yager 21-23 .477
2. Berning 18-17 .514
3. Dick 18-18 .500
4. Harms 22-23 .489
5. Wiese 16-14 .533
6. Knutsen 13-15 .464
totals: 108-110 .505

Next up: tomorrow morning

Out & About: Andover/Blaine

#3 posting 9.13.2007
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ANDOVER huskies 3, BLAINE bengals 0
(25-23, 26-24, 25-14)

In a battle of top 10 AAA teams, Andover beat NW Suburban rival Blaine at home in a sweep at home. It was a revenge match from last year's five game section 7AAA final. This year the two teams are in different sections with Blaine in 5, and Andover in 7. Andover's Megan Carlson had 18 kills and Lauren Cipperly added 11. Blaine's Jessica Granquist had 11 kills also. Carlson is headed to Marshall, a D1 program. Granquist will be a Gopher next season.

First off a word about the crowd. Both sides were pulled down with student sections that were standing, packed all night. It was the rowdiest crowd I have seen so far this year. Most of the time the matches I see are rather quiet. The cheers were going back and forth with there "you can't do that" followed by the claps; and other, sometimes questionable, cheers. The announcer had to mention to cheer for a team, not against an individual.

In game one, Lauren Cipperly got Andover to a quick 4-0 lead with a pair of kills by Megan Carlson and a pair of aces. The Huskies kept building on their lead with a 11-6 lead during Carlson's serve. This time Cipperly chipped in two kills in a three point service run. There was one stretch of the game where both teams traded four straight missed serves, three deep. Blaine did put together a 13-5 run with Granquist serving up three straight points to make it 19-16. That prompted an Andover time out. A double contact gave the ball back to Andover. The next six points came on errors on both teams. A tip kill by Blaine's Molly Kreklow put the Bengals on the verge at 23-21. Another Andover time worked with Megan Keller putting up a block. Cipperly bookended the first game with three straight points. Blaine tried to stop the momentum at 24-23, but after the time out Cipperly finished the first game with her second straight ace.

Blaine held the advantage in game two early. On Granquist's serve Blaine led 10-4 with Ashley Kvistberg putting down two straight kills. Andover started their comeback at this point. A huge part of the rally was the fact that the first ball side out game of Andover was humming. The Huskies had 10 straight side outs to climb back into the contest. Carlson, in this stretch gave Andover their first lead at 17-16 with two straight jump serve aces which forced Blaine to burn a time out. Cipperly, three rotations later, put Andover up 22-19 with her fifth ace of the night again forcing Blaine to stop to talk about it. Cipperly missed on her serve wide and that opened the door for the Bengals. Carlson had a side out kill, but Granquist returned the favor. The game was knotted up at 24 all after a Kvistberg kill on Granquist's serve, but Carlson stopped that with a side out kill, and then finished the second game with her third ace of the game.

In the third game Andover slammed the door on Blaine's serve game with 12 straight FBSO. Blaine didn't help their cause with three missed serves. Andover was able to squeeze one point out of Carlson's serve, but they too were having a hard time generating anything. Soon Andover was getting one point off their serves and when it came back to Carlson again she notched two more service points on Blaine errors to make it 14-9. Blaine took a time out at 13-9. A missed serve gave the ball back to the Bengals. Cipperly put down a kill and then the points, which were so hard to come by for both teams, opened up. On Shannyn Rosendahl's serve Andover added six points to make it 21-10. Cipperly had three points, but the last four points in the seven point run were all Blaine errors. Again Blaine was forced to take a time out at 20-10. Finally on Kreklow's serve Blaine got a point off her serve, the only time in game three. Carlson ended the night with two straight kills, one on the side out, and then on Amy Howard's serve.

photos: #1 Megan Carlson goes down the line for a kill in game #2; #2 Ashley Kvistberg of Blaine goes up for an attack with Andover's Megan Keller (#13) and Jenna McNallen (#9) up for the block. photos by kja

ANDOVER
1 Lauren Cipperly, OH 4-1-11----16
2 Megan Keller, MH 1-1-0----2
2 Kayla Evans, server 0-0-0---0
2 Amy Howard, server 0-0-0----0
2br Shannon Rosendahl, L 0-0-0---0
3 Nicole Husfeld, S 0-0-1----1
4 Megan Carlson, OH 3-0-18---21
5 Shannyn Rosendahl, L 0-0-0----0
5fr Alex Nelson, MH 0-2-4----6
6 Amy Kurtovich, DS 0-0-0----0
Jenna McNallen, RH 0-0-2----2
totals: 8-4-36----48 points, 27 points on Blaine errors

BLAINE
1 Ashley Kvistberg, OH 0-0-7----7
1br Amber Marciniak, DS 0-0-0----0
2 Molly Kreklow, MH/S 0-1-8----9
3 Reiley Dahlberg, RH 1-0-1----2
4 Jessica Granquist, OH 0-0-11----11
5 Brittney Barren, MH 1-0-0-----1
5 Tracie Gillund, MH 0-0-0----0
5br Amanda Lom, L 0-0-0----0
6 Mackenzie Suda, S 0-0-1----1
totals: 2-1-28----31 points; 30 points on Andover errors

TRENCH PLAYER
Megan Carlson coiled, ready to strike, good timing.

BY THE NUMBERS
team, fbso/fbso attempts; fbso %; points, % earned; % allowed
Andover 27/41, .659; 76; .632; .492
Blaine 24/42, .571; 61; .508; .355
Runs 3+: Andover 8, Blaine 5
Missed Serves: Andover 14, Blaine 9

ROTATIONS
ANDOVER
1 Cipperly 18-12 .600
2 Evans 13-13 .500
3 Husfeld 8-13 .381
4 Carlson 15-8 .652
5 Rosendahl 14-7 .667
6 Kurtovich 8-8 .500
totals: 76-61 .555

BLAINE
1 Kvistberg/Marciniak 10-17 .371
2 Kreklow 11-14 .440
3 Dahlberg 13-8 .619
4 Granquist 12-16 .429
5 Barren/Gillund 8-14 ,364
6 Suda 7-7 .500
totals: 61-76 .445

next up: tomorrow morning