Out & About: St. Michael-Albertville/Delano

#3 posting 9.22.2008
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ST. MICHAEL-ALBERTVILLE knights 3
DELANO tigers 0
(25-15, 25-18, 25-18)

#3 AAA St. Michael-Albertville swept #6 AA Delano in a non conference match Monday night. This was the first loss on the year for the Tigers. This was also the first night back for Delano's Molly Kreklow who had been out with mono. Kreklow was used exclusively as a setter tonight to ease back in the routine of games. She will be hitting when she is back to full speed. STMA had stronger ball control today than when I first saw them vs Andover. Every week a different position dominates the action. The right side for both teams filled that roll tonight. The Katherine/Catherine Connection is a D1 combo for STMA. The Koenecke/Kreklow Connection is another strong combo, but the 2009s were in control tonight. Katherine Harms had 17 points on the night for the Knights.

Delano missed their first three serves to start the contest helping STMA to get a 5-2 lead. STMA used a solid first ball side out game with 11/13 FBSO in set one (.846). Four of those FBSO were gift wrapped on missed serves. Both teams settled down and traded 8 straight side outs. Delano closed to 15-11. STMA scored six straight, five on Brittani Wiese's serve. Wiese had two aces in the burst and STMA had a 21-11 lead. Delano took their only time out at 18-11, but the Knights added three more points to their totals after the break.

Delano had a slight advantage early in set two. The Tigers had three runs of three to push out to a 10-8 lead. Kayla Koenecke had three straight kills to reach get that lead. STMA took the lead for good at 17-15. The Knights finished with a 15-5 run. The Knights had six straight FBSO to close set two. Delano closed to 20-18 when a missed serve gave the ball back to the home team. They never gave it back. Delano took a time out, but Catherine Yager had two straight kills forcing another Tiger time out. STMA added two more points after that for their second set victory.

In a repeat of the second set Delano again grabbed the early lead. Their biggest lead of the night came at 7-3. STMA contributed to that margin with two missed serves. The last Tiger lead came at 11-8 when the Knights tore off a 12-2 run. Lindsay Berning had three straight aces to put the Knights in the lead for good. Delano took their first time out at 17-13, but the Tigers never stopped the Knights after the breaks. Delano did have one more push to close to 21-17. Maria Berning had two straight kills for the beginning of the end of the night. The night ended with Harms' 15th kill of the match.

You can see the entire STMA/Delano photo gallery at kevinanderson.photostockplus.com

rotation, player, (year) position, aces-blocks-kills---total points
ST. MICHAEL-ALBERTVILLE
1. Catherine Yager (2009) S 1-1-6---8
2. Linday Berning (2009) DS 4-0-0---4
2fr: Marina Berning (2009) OH 0-0-7---7
3. Samantha Dick (2009) DS 0-0-0----0
3fr: Carly Rothstein (2010) MH 0-0-1---1
4. Katherine Harms (2009) RH 1-1-15---17
5. Brittani Wiese (2009) OH 4-0-9----13
6. Allie Knutsen (2009) L 0-0-0---0
6fr: Marie O'Neil (2009) MH 0-2-1---3
totals: 10-4-39----53 points, 22 points on Delano errors

DELANO
1. Kayla Kalleberg (2010) OH 0-0-1---1
2. Sarah Bingea (2009) MH 1-0-4---5
2br: #17 L
3. Molly Kreklow (2010) S 0-1-4----5
4. Olivia Garrett (2011) OH 1-0-2----3
5. Kayla Kassulker (2009) MH 0-0-1----1
6. Kayla Koenecke (2010) RH 1-0-14----15
6br: #17 L
totals: 3-1-26----30, 21 points on STMA errors

TRENCH PLAYER
Katherine Harms

BY THE NUMBERS
team, fbso/fbso attempts; fbso %; points, % earned; % allowed
St. Michael-Albertville 25/36-.694; 75; .707; .412
Delano 19/36-.528; 51; .588; .293
Runs 3+: STMA 10, Delano 6
Longest string: STMA 6, Delano 3
Missed Serves: STMA 10, Delano 9
Time Out %: Delano 0/4-.000; STMA did not take a time out

ROTATIONS
ST. MICHAEL-ALBERTVILLE
1. Yager 12-7 .632
2. L Berning 11-8 .579
3. Dick 11-10 .523
4. Harms 15-13 .536
5. Wiese 15-7 .682
6. Knutsen 11-6 .647
totals: 75-51 .595

DELANO
1. Kalleberg 8-12 .400
2. Bingea 8-11 .421
3. Kreklow 10-15 .400
4. Garrett 13-15 .464
5. Kassulker 6-12 .333
6. Koenecke 6-10 .375
totals 51-75 .405

RACE TO:
set: 5 10 15 20 25
set 1 S S S S S
set 2 S D S S S
set 3 D D S S S

BIGGEST LEAD
Team: 1 2 3
STMA 10 7 7
Delano 0 3 4

Next up: tomorrow

Out & About: Delano/Orono

#4 posting 11.1.2007
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5AA SOUTH SUBSECTION FINAL
DELANO tigers 3, ORONO spartans 0
(25-15, 25-16, 25-18)

Delano beat highway 12 rival Orono for the 5AA subsection south title at Minneapolis Henry tonight in three. Back on October 16 Delano won at Orono in a sweep (10, 16, 14). This time Orono scored more, but the results remained the same.

Orono had the early lead in game one at 7-4 after an ace by Kelly Anderson. A tip kill by Delano's Kayla Kassulker stopped 3-0 run and started a five point run of their own. Orono tied it up at 10 all. Delano had another 5-0 run on Cecily Checkal to go up 15-10. Sarah Bingea had a hand on two blocks that sandwiched an overpass kill. Orono tried to stop the momentum at 13-10. Delano had one more five point run at the tail end of the game on Kylie Crofutt's serve. Kayla Koenecke had two kills in that run.

Again Orono held an early lead in game two with the first three points, two on Delano hitting errors. Delano took a time out at 7-3 in the midst of three straight hitting errors. Orono's biggest lead came at 9-4. Delano failed to get the first ball side out in the first three Spartan servers. After that Delano had six straight FBSO. They also started connecting on their serve. It was an 18-6 run for the Tigers. During that stretch Kayla Koenecke had four kills and two aces. Orono took their first time out when they led at 9-8. They took their second time out when trailing 20-14. Orono had two hitting errors in the last three points for Delano.

Delano got the early jump in game three with a 9-2 advantage. Angie Snaza had a five serve run when Orono took their first time out. Snaza had two aces in the stretch. Orono righted the ship with a 7-5 run to make it 14-10. Delano had another four point run with Koenecke serving up two straight aces. That made the score 18-10. Orono kept battling back and closed to 21-18 on an 8-3 run. Briana Royer got the side out kill and then went to the service line. Orono never got the ball back as Royer served up three more points. Koenecke finished the night with a kill.

photos: #1 Delano's Angie Snaza goes up for the hit with Orono blockers #15 Mikayla Anderson and #26 Sarah Luse in the way. #2. Cecily Checkal makes a dig for Delano. #3. No that is not the same photo as in #1. Same number different uniform. That is Orono's Katy Morgan going up for a hit with Delano's Kylie Crofutt and Sarah Bingea ready to block. Photos by kja

DELANO
1. Cecily Checkal, L 1-0-0----1
1fr Kayla Kasulker, MH 0-2-5----7
2 Kayla Koenecke, S 4-1-11----16
3 Angie Snaza, OH 2-0-3----5
4. Sarah Bingea, MH 1-1-11-----13
5. Kylie Crofutt, S 1-0-0-----1
6. Briana Royer, OH 0-0-5-----5
totals: 9-4-35-----48 points, 27 points on Orono errors

ORONO
1. Emily Ten Eyck, S 0-0-1-----1
2. Sarah Luse, MH 0-0-3----3
3. Maddie Franz, OH 0-1-5----6
4. Kelly Anderson, DS 1-0-0-----1
4fr Mikayla Anderson, RH 0-2.5-1----3.5
5. Katie Odens, L 1-0-0----1
5fr Megan Peterson, MH 0-0.5-2---2.5
5fr Racquel Maronde, MH 0-0-0-----0
6. Katy Morgan, OH 0-0-6----6
totals: 2-4-18----24 points, 25 points on Delano errors

TRENCH PLAYER
Kayla Koenecke

BY THE NUMBERS
team fbso/att; fbso%; points; earned%; allowed%
Delano 18/31; .581; 75; .640; .510
Orono 16/33; .485; 49; .490; .360
3+ runs: Delano 12, Orono 5
missed serves: Orono 6, Delano 3
Ace to error ratio: Delano 3.0; Orono 0.67

ROTATIONS
DELANO
1 Cecily Checkal 13-9 .591
2. Kayla Koenecke 13-7 .650
3. Angie Snaza 11-12 .478
4. Sarah Bingea 11-12 .478
5. Kylie Crofutt 18-6 .750
6. Briana Royer 9-3 .750
totals: 75-49 .605

ORONO
1. Emily Ten Eyck 10-13 .435
2. Sarah Luse 7-11 .389
3. Maddie Franz 12-11 .522
4. Kelly Anderson 10-20 .333
5. Katie Odens/Casey Olson 5-10 .333
6. Katy Morgan 5-10 .333
totals: 49-75 .395
Delano won four rotations, Orono won one. When Koenecke was in the front row Delano score was 40-18 or a .690%.

next up: tomorrow morning

Out & About: Delano/Columbia Heights

#2 posting 10.30.2007
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SECTION 5AA
SOUTH SUBSECTION SEMIFINALS
DELANO tigers 3,
COLUMBIA HEIGHTS hylanders 0
(25-15, 25-11, 25-14)

#1 seed Delano had no real problems with Columbia Heights. Three Tigers ended up with double digit kills. Delano also had a clear advantage in the serve game with 8 aces on the night.

Early on it was CH errors that provided Delano with the lead. Delano took a 3-0 lead right off the bat. CH hung around at 11-8 when Delano accelerated past with a 9-1 run to make it 20-9 after Cecily Checkal and Kayla Koenecke's serve. Sarah Bingea had three kills during Koenecke's serve.

In game two Delano broke free from a 7-6 game with seven straight points on a side out and six points off Kylie Crofutt's serve. This time it was Koenecke that had a hand in five of the points including a dual block. Checkal added five more points two servers later to make it 21-9. Game two ended with two kills by Briana Royer.

By the third game it was fairly clear who was to prevail. Delano leaped to a 7-1 lead after five point service run by Angie Snaza. Royer had two kills in the run. Delano built the lead to 20-9. The rest of the way it was 5-5.

Heights never had a player get more than one kill in any one game. In game two CH only had two earned points. Delano earned 18 points in game two.

With the win Delano moves to the 5AA South subsection final on Thursday at Minneapolis Henry at 7 pm.

photos: #1 Delano's Kayla Koenecke swings from the right side Maria Ehrtt defending. #2 Delano's Sarah Bingea tips the ball past CH's Nikki Klenk. photos by kja

DELANO
1 Cecily Checkal, L 3-0-0----3
1fr Kayla Kassulker, MH 0-0.5-2----2.5
2. Kayla Koenecke, S 2-0.5-10---12.5
3. Angie Snaza, OH 1-0-4----5
4. Sarah Bingea, MH 1-0-11---12
5. Kylie Crofutt, S 1-0-1----2
6. Briana Royer, OH 1-0-4----5
totals: 8-1-38----47 points, 28 points on Columbia Heights errors

COLUMBIA HEIGHTS
1. Cassie Wentland, S 0-0-2----2
2. Sada Maxwell, OH 1-0-2----3
2. Ralia Hussein, OH 0-0-0----0
3. Nikki Klenk, MH 0-0-2-----2
4. Kim Weber, RH 0-0-1----1
5. Maria Ehritt, OH 0-0-3----3
6. Machelle McGriff, MH 0-0-0----0
totals: 1-0-10----11 points, 29 points on Delano errors

TRENCH PLAYER
Kayla Koenecke

BY THE NUMBERS
name, fbso/att; fbso%; points; % earned; % allowed
Delano 18/29; .621; 75; .627; .725
Columbia Heights 11/29; .379; 40; .275; .373
3+ runs: Delano 13, CH 2
missed serves: Delano 11, CH 6

ROTATIONS
DELANO
1. Cecily Checkal 18-5 .783
2. Kayla Koenecke 14-8 .636
3. Angie Snaza 14-6 .700
4 Sarah Bingea 9-8 .529
5 Kylie Crofutt 17-7 .708
Briana Royer 3-5 .375

COLUMBIA HEIGHTS
1 Cassie Wentland 7-14 .333
2 Sada Maxwell 7-15 .318
3 Nikki Klenk 7-9 .438
4 Kim Weber 7-18 .280
5 Maria Ehrtt 6-4 .600
6. Machelle McGriff 6-15 .286
totals: 40-75 .348

Next up: 5AA Semifinal: Orono/Fridley

Out & About: Delano/Orono

#3 posting 10.16.2007
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DELANO tigers 3, ORONO spartans 0
(25-10, 25-16, 25-14)

The Delano Tigers beat the Orono Spartans in a Wright County conference game tonight. Delano used balance, defense, and ball control as the ingredients to victory.

Right from the get go Delano staked their claim on the match. The Tigers were able to squeeze points on their first four serves. Orono took their first time out at 11-4. At that point seven of the Delano points were via Orono errors. Four times in the first game Delano had runs of three or more while Delano held Orono to no runs. After the first cycle through the serving rotation Delano finished with a 11-2 run.

Game two started off similar to game one with Delano up early 5-2 after the first pair of servers. Another late run by Delano (9-2) forced Orono to use two time outs. Kayla Koenecke had five kills in game two.

Game three opened with 8 straight combined first ball side outs. Delano broke free on Kylie Crofutt's serve with a run of three (including the side out) and added another run on the next service by Briana Royer. In fact Delano had four runs of 3 points or more in their next five servers. All in all a 14-4 run put Delano in the drivers seat. Orono had their only 3+run late in the contest.

There was a good crowd, a band, and even Delano brought a baritone (the game was at Orono). But the Orono crowd was soon somber. The Delano faithful were boisterous throughout the night.

One factor Orono controlled was the blocking game with 8 points off blocks compared to Delano's 1.

Every Delano rotation won their battle.

DELANO
rotation, player, position, aces-blocks-kills----points
1 Cicily Checkal, L 1-0-0----1
1fr Kayla Kassulker, MH 0-0.5-2----2.5
2 Kayla Koenecke, S 0-0.5-8---8.5
3 Angie Snaza, OH 2-0-6----8
4 Sarah Bingea, MH 1-0-8----9
5 Kylie Crofutt, S 0-0-2----2
6 Briana Royer, OH 2-0-8----10
totals: 6-1-35---42 points; 33 points on Orono errors

ORONO
1. Emily Ten Eyck, S 1-2.5-2----5.5
2. Sarah Luse, MH 0-2-3----5
Mikayla Anderson, MH 0-0.5-0---0.5
3. Maddie Franz, OH 0-1-2----3
4. #10 0-0-0----0
4fr Racquel Maronde, RH 0-0-0----0
5. Kelly Anderson, L 0-0-1-----1
5fr Megan Peterson, MH 0-1-1----2
6. Casey Olson, OH 0-0-1----1
Katy Morgan, OH 0-1-2----3
totals: 1-8-12----21 points, 19 points on Delano errors

TRENCH PLAYER
Delano is pretty balanced, but since I name only one player it will be Kayla Koenecke tonight.

BY THE NUMBERS
Delano 24/32; .750; 75; .560; .475
Orono 14/31; .452; 40; .525; .440
3+ runs: Delano 12, Orono 1
missed serves: Orono 10, Delano 9

ROTATIONS
DELANO
1 Cecily Checkal 12-7 .632
2 Kayla Koenecke 20-6 .769
3 Angie Snaza 12-7 .632
4 Sarah Bingea 9-7 .563
5 Kylie Crofutt 15-8 .652
6 Briana Royer 7-5 .583
totals: 75-40 .652

ORONO
1 Emily Ten Eyck 7-21 .250
2 Sarah Luse/Mikayla Anderson 5-13 .278
3 Maddie Franz 7-9 .438
4 #10 7-15 .318
5 Megan Peterson/Kelly Anderson/Racquel Maronde 7-8 .467
6 Casey Olson/Katy Morgan 7-9 .438
totals: 40-75 .348

also tonight
Osseo beat Maple Grove in a district 279 battle in four. The Orioles lost the first game and then ran the table (19-25, 25-20, 25-14, 25-21). Speaking of Osseo, former Osseo player Erin Alden (2000) is the JV coach at Delano and they also beat Orono.

Byron swept Lake City 25-11, 25-14, 25-20 in Hiawatha action. Byron's overall record is 15-12 and 8-5 in the HVL conference. Seeding for subsection play is tomorrow.

Next up: tomorrow morning