Out & About: Minnesota/Marquette

#2 posting 4.20.2008
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GOPHERS SPRING TOURNAMENT
Today the Minnesota Gophers hosted a four team event with Marquette, Iowa State, and North Dakota State. Action started bright and early at 8:30 am with the Gophers taking on Marquette. I was there for that contest and the following match with Iowa State and North Dakota. Here is the report

MINNESOTA gophers 3, MARQUETTE warriors 0

The Gophers swept Marquette in a the new 25 point format. The depleted teams experimented and adjusted to new realities. The bench was nonexistent. As it was in game one Marquette led early 2-0. Brooke Dieter had two kills to tie it up. The first 3 point run for the Gophers, who led with 10 on the day, pushed them out to a 5-3 lead and they never trailed after that. They soon added another three point run to make it 8-4 after Dieter's serve. The Gopher side out game had five straight side outs to close the game. Rachel Hartmann serve out the last three points, the last two coming on Marquette hitting errors.

The Gophers opened game two with two kills by Kelly Schmidt and they soon had a 7-3 lead. The five straight side outs carried over into game two with seven of the first eight Marquette serves done in one. Combined with the end of the first game that was 12/13. It was 15-8 at that point. Lauren Gibbemeyer delivered points 16-18 via kills. Then the side out machine started to sputter. Marquette was able to squeeze on point off the next three serves and closed the margin to 21-18. The Gophers had a run of three with a kill by Dieter, Vatterodt and an ace by Christine Tan to put them on the verge 24-18. The Warriors answered with their own run of three thanks in part to two Gopher hitting errors. Gibbemeyer finished the second game with a kill, her 6th of that frame.

Two Marquette hitting errors put the Gophers in front 2-0. Marquette got hot in the side out game stopping the Gophers serve four straight times. That helped put them up 7-6. After a ball handling error, Hartmann served up four straight. There was a disputed call with what looked to be a kill by Cowles ruled a replay in that sequence. After Hartman's run was done it was 11-7. Tan delivered four straight service points to make it 17-10. Marquette had a run of three to respond with a kill by Rabbecka Gonyo followed by two hitting errors. Hartmann, as she did in game one, served out with three straight. Cowles delivered two kills with Schmidt and Cowles combining for a block on the match point.

photos: #1 Gibbemeyer ready to attack. #2 Hartmann in a joust at the net. photos by kja

Minnesota 25 25 25 (75)
Marquette 14 21 16 (51)

MINNESOTA
Rotation; player, position, aces-blocks-kills-total
1. Hailey Cowles, OH 0-1-13---14
2. Christine Tan, L 1-0-0---1
2fr Kelly Schmidt, MH 0-4.5-5---9.5
3. Katie Vatterodt, RH 0-2.5-6---8.5
4. Brooke Dieter, OH 0-0-3----3
5. Lauren Gibbemeyer, MH 0-5.5-9---14.5
6. Rachel Hartmann, S 0-1.5-3---4.5
totals: 1-15-49---65

Point Errors for Marquette:
Gibbemeyer 6
Dieter 4
Cowles 3
Hartmann 2
Vatterodt 2
Tan 1
Schmidt 1

MARQUETTE
The fact is Marquette had permanent players in the front row and permanent players in the back row. All teams were short on numbers due to graduation and some nagging injuries (Kyla Roehrig was out for the Gophers for example). At this point I will summarize their point totals, and disregard their service order since it was creative to say the least.
Rabbecka Gonyo 0-4-11---15
Hailey Viola 0-0.5-8---8.5
Laira Akin, 0-1.5-4---5
Jessica Kieser 0-0-2---2
Caryn Mastandrea 0-0-1---1
totals: 0-6-26---32

TRENCH PLAYER
Hailey Cowles

BY THE NUMBERS
team, fbso/att; fbso%; points, %earned, %allowed
Minnesota 24/38; .632; 75; .733; .373
Marquette 19/37; .514; 51; .627; .267
3+runs: MN 10, Marquette 2
missed serves: MN 6, Marquette 5

ROTATIONS
1. Cowles 13-10 .565
2. Tan 17-12 .586
3. Vatterodt 10-6 .625
4. Dieter 11-9 .550
5. Gibbemeyer 8-8 .500
6. Hartmann 16-6 .727
totals: 75-51 .595

I also stayed for the Iowa State vs North Dakota State battle won by ISU 25-23, 25-15, and 19-15. There was automatically three games. There were a few Minnesotans playing for both squads. For ISU, Diane Kieger, a 6-4 middle from Mounds View had 1.5 blocks and 9 kills for 10.5 total points. For NDSU Mattie Johnson of Lakeville North set. Also Kristen Hille of Sauk Rapids hit on the out side. Hille had 17 kills, 1 ace and 1 block for a total of 19 points. In game three Hille had five of the first six points on kills for NDSU as they raced out to a 6-2 lead. Hille ended up with 10 points in game three.

photos: #1. Diane Kieger (#11) for Iowa State. #2. Kristen Hille of NDSU (#12). #3 Mattie Johnson (#8) for NDSU. photos by kja

next up: tomorrow

Out & About: Minnesota/Washington State

#1 posting 3.31.2007
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MINNESOTA GOPHER SPRING ROUND ROBIN

MINNESOTA gophers 2*,
WASHINGTON STATE cougars 1
32-34, 30-18, 10-8

The Gophers opened their spring portion of their schedule with Washington State. Match time was limited to one hour. This marked the first time the 2007 class was not part of the performance. Christine Tan filled the Libero role that Malama Peniata held. In the middle replacing Meredith Nelson was Kelly Schmidt; taking Meghan Crumpston's spot was Katie Vatterrodt and taking Kelly Bowman's spot was Rachelle Hagarty.

In the first contest MN got out to a 3-1 lead with two gifts and a kill by Kyla Roehrig. WSU took their first lead at 5-4 after a run of three and expanded it to 11-5 with a 6 point run on their fourth serve. It became a game of catch up for the Gophers after that and they did whittle the lead down rotation by rotation. MN tied it at 19 on Jessy Jones serve on a kill by Hagarty from the right side. But MN was caught in a side out sequence as both teams broke each other's serve. Finally on Rachel Hartman's serve MN scored a point on a WSU hitting error and claimed a narrow one point lead. WSU got it right back at 25-24 before a WSU net serve tied it at 25 all. The Cougars put on a run of three with one kill and two Gopher hitting errors. 28-25. MN managed to knot it up at 29 on Christa Chin's serve and a dump kill by Hartmann followed by a tandem block by Schmidt and Hartmann. But a net serve killed the momentum. The Gophers were on the verge of victory at 32-31 after a WSU hitting error on Chin's serve, but a kill from their right tied it at 32. The WSU second server finished off with a hitting error on Roehrig followed by a tip kill 34-32.

MN played much stronger in the second contest with better passing and more kills. The Gophers had runs of three or more four times, and limited WSU to two runs of three. WSU didn't help their cause with seven missed serves in the contest. Jessy Jones had two straight blocks as the Gophers went up 4-2. WSU rallied to take a 7-8 lead after a kill by their left. Roehrig had two straight kills to put the Gophers back up 11-8. It was part of a 14-3 run by Minnesota that broke open the game 19-10. Roehrig had five kills during the run. MN's biggest lead came at 24-12, but WSU rallied for three straight to cut it to 24-15. A Schmidt Slide kill ended their run. An over pass kill by Jones put the Gophers on the verge at 29-17, but WSU's left held off the inevitable for one more point. Jones finished the second game with a kill 30-18.

With some time left the two teams played up to 10. MN grabbed the lead at 5-3 on three straight points off Jones' serve 5-3, the last an ace. WSU edged ahead 6-5 after a hitting error that went deep for Schmidt. Vatterrodt put down a kill and then she and Schmidt blocked to put the lead back in MN's hands 7-6. A hitting error returned it to WSU, but their serving game was off in the nets again 8-7 Minnesota. Hartmann had a tip kill to put the Gophers on the edge 9-7. Vatterrodt's serve went deep however, but Roehrig finished with a kill to make it 10-8 in an abbreviated game.

MINNESOTA
rotation, player, pos., aces-blocks-kills total points
1. Katie Vatterrodt, OH 0-1.5-8---9.5
2. Christine Tan, L 0-0-0----0
2 fr Kelly Schmidt MH 0-2.5-4---6.5
3. Rachel Hartman, S 0-0.5-3---3.5
4. Kyla Roehrig, OH 0-1-11---12
5. Jessy Jones, MH 1-2.5-5---8.5
6. Rachelle Hagerty, OH 0-2-8---10
totals: 1-10-39----49 points, 22 on WSU errors
ASSISTS: Hartmann 26, Hagerty 4, Vatterrodt 1, Jones 1, Tan 1

ROTATIONS
1 Vatterrodt 15-8 .652
2 Tan 12-10 .545
3 Hartmann 13-10 .565
4 Roehrig 9-13 .409
5 Jones 14-12 .538
6 Hagerty 9-7 .563
totals: 72-60 .545

BY THE NUMBERS
First ball side out/Serves--%; points scored, % earned, % allowed
Minnesota 26/39---.667; 72, .694, .333
Washington State 19/38---.500; 60; .667; .306

Next up: Monday