Gophers Chomp Gators

#1 posting 12.9.2006
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GOPHERS CHOMP GATORS
Despite being forced to play in Gator alley in Florida, the #8 seeded Minnesota Gophers ruined #9 Florida's Saturday night or afternoon plans with a 3-1 win over the Gators. It ended 34 straight home wins by Florida. Here is the box.
The StarTribune was there and covered the event. It was mentioned on KARE11, but no video.

Minnesota now faces #1 Nebraska at 3pm central time for the right to go to Omaha and the final four. Nebraska beat Minnesota earlier in the year and beat San Diego in a sweep last night.

Next up: tomorrow morning.

Gophers vs Gators

#1 posting 12.8.2006
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GOPHERS VS FLORIDA TODAY
Can't make it to Gainesville? You can watch the action for FREE on the internet thanks to the GatorZone.com. The link is on the Gopher site.
You can read quotes from Coach Hebert, Meredith Nelson and Malama Peniata.


StarTribune writer Jerry Zgoda talks about the Gophers are under the radar going into this game.
The MN Daily has their preview of the weekend's action.

HS TRANSFERS/CLASSIFICATION
The MSHSL has one big change in the 3 class system: the top 96 teams will be in AAA now, with 128 in the AA division, the rest in A. Before the classes were divided equally. Also they are waiting on the transfer rule because the private schools are not crazy about the proposed changes.

HALEY BOWER
Haley Bower is a junior at Augsburg with strong defensive credentials and a 3.91 gpa. She is featured in the Brainerd Dispatch.

I have added a few more JO teams to the links on the right. Have more? email me by going to my profile. It is on now.

Thanks to all the help provided by the readers for making this the go to site for volleyball.

next up: tomorrow morning

AVCA Honors

#1 posting 12.7.2006
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AVCA HONORS
The American Volleyball Coaches Association is handing out post season honors. In the Coaching department Gopher Coach Mike Hebert picked up Mideast coach of the year, his 3rd such honor.

The AVCA also has handed out awards for players and two Gophers landed on the All Mideast team: MH Meredith Nelson and L Malama Peniata. Kelly Bowman was an honorable mention selection.
Betty Slinger, UWGB and Bethlehem Academy was honorable mention in the Midwest Region.

Congratulations to all award winners.

Thanks to the viewers that help with information to this site. my email is now on (for some reason it was off) on my profile.

Next up: Tomorrow morning with more news.

Gophers Prepare, Lanesboro's Divided MVP

#1 posting 12.6.2006
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GOPHERS GET READY
Coach Mike Hebert was featured in the StarTribune with his frame of mind expectations.

The Gophers are headed to Gainesville Florida. Here are some of the background stats involved and media sources.

END OF HS WRAP
Lanesboro split their MVP between Hannah Glor and Bonnie Albright. From the Republican Leader.

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Next up: tomorrow, I hope before noon.

Minnesota #9 in AVCA Poll, Prairie All Conference

#1 posting 12.5.2006
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#8 SEED MINNESOTA #9 IN POLL
The Minnesota Gophers are unchanged in the latest AVCA poll. Their opponent on Friday is the #7 Florida Gators. However they are the #9 seed. Shouldn't Florida be the #7 seed in the tournament then? or is their a fix?

ALL CONFERENCE LIST
The Prairie conference has named their all conference players.
Kayla Tschida, Upsala offensive MVP
Beth Burggraff, Upsala
Kari Roering, Upsala
Alexandra Knettel, Upsala
Jordan Noska, Browerville defensive MVP
Rachel Johnson, Browerville
Jessica Thompson, Browerville
Stephanie Roggenbuck, Osakia
Stacey Kern, Osakis
Cari Jo Hohncke, Osakis
Leah Jendro, Royalton
Brooke Winscher, Royalton
Rachel Allen, Eagle Valley
Kalyn Beseman, Swanville
Honorable Mention
Denise Ripplinger, Upsala
Mallory Johnson, Upsala
Amanda Boeckermann, Upsala
Emily Salber, Browerville
Kirsten Winscher, Royalton
Rachel Wagner, Eagle Valley
Missy Kassube, Eagle Valley
Jamie Kulzer, Swanville
Tracy Fruechte, Swanville

Thanks for sending the conference list in. If your conference has been sent in get it to me and it will get up. Go to my email to email me.

Next up: tomorrow morning

Sweet 16 Preview

#1 posting 12.4.2006
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GOPHERS OFF TO FLORIDA
The U of M site previews the action to come this weekend in Florida. Minnesota will face the hosts in the late game.

The MN Daily reviews the St. John's game that went the max.

Next up: tomorrow morning

Wisconsin in Sweet 16

#1 posting 12.3.2006
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WISCONSIN TOPS IOWA STATE
Wisconsin is in the Sweet 16 after sweeping Iowa State. Hills-Beaver Creek MH Erin Boeve had 11 kills for Iowa State. Wisconsin is now headed to Texas to see the hosts next weekend.

Five Big 10 teams are left standing: Penn State will play Purdue in one Sweet 16 match. Ohio State is on the other side of the same regional at Washington and will face the hosts. The Pac 10 also provided four teams with Stanford playing Missouri today with a chance to match the Big 10. So of the 16 teams left a potential 10 are from the two power packed conferences. 3 teams (or 4 if Missouri upsets Stanford) are from the Big 12. San Diego, Hawaii and Florida crashed the party from three other conferences.

Here is the Minnesota/St. John's
NUMBER CRUNCHING
fbso, points; earned-%; allowed-%
Minnesota 38/69--.551; 125; 93-.744; 38-.330
St. John's 33/67-.493; 115; 77-.670; 32-.256

The FBSO % is one of the lowest on the year. That number has to be north of .600 for things to be clicking.

ROTATION POINTS
1 Tan 23-17 .575
2 Peniata 23-21 .523
3 Bowman 20-15 .571
4 Crumpston 21-23 .477
5 Nelson 22-24 .478
6 Hartmann 15-15 .500

The Gophers adjusted after game four with Crumpston's rotation moved to #1. As you can see that collective half of the rotations were sub .500 on the match. Only three rotations above .500, not one in the .600s which usually is the case.
The Gophers have had big road wins during the year at Wisconsin, Purdue and Ohio State. They will need to duplicate those efforts in Gator Alley.

thanks to all that help with the blog providing information and tips. it is appreciated.

Next up: tomorrow morning

Gophers Survive St. John's

#1 posting 12.2.2006
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GOPHERS SURVIVE ST. JOHN'S
Minnesota let a 2-0 lead develop into a 2-2 game with St. John's and had to work game five 15-12 to advance to Gainesville, Florida to take on the Gators, 3-1 winners over Arizona State, next week. A Jessy Jones kill finished the contest. I will have more on the numbers much later.

OTHER GAMES OF NOTE
Iowa State, with Hills-Beaver Creek Middle Erin Boeve, swept UW Milwaukee. Boeve had 10 kills. From the Pioneer Press news wire.

Wisconsin will face Iowa State. The Badgers swept Notre Dame in Madison.

ALL STATE
South Dakota had their AA listed in the Pioneer Press off the news wires. You can contrast and compare. SD teams did play in the Apple Valley tournaments during the year.

Next up: Tomorrow morning

Gophers Sweep Siena, UMD, Winona Signings

#1 posting 12.1.2006
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GOPHERS SWEEP SIENA
Minnesota moves on to the round of 32 with a 16, 25, 15 sweep of Siena in Siena's back yard. At least at the Siena site you can see the play by play, something that hasn't been on the MN site all year. MN takes on St. John's tonight. They beat host Albany 3-1.

NUMBER CRUNCHING
fbso-%; points; earned-%; allowed -%
Minnesota 31/42--.738; 90; 72--.800; 25--.463
Siena 20/40--.500; 54; 29--.537; 18--.200
A dominating performance with fbso and earned points.

ROTATION POINTS
1 Tan/Chin (3) 16-9 .640
2 Peniata 15-11 .577
3 Bowman 17-9 .654
4 Crumpston 10-10 .500
5 Nelson/Fallon (3) 10-7 .588
6 Hartmann 22-7 .759

Hartmann's rotation really kick it last night. Hartmann had a string of 9 points in game one. For the early part of the year that rotation was trailing the others. Crumpston's rotation was hampered by missed serves. If this keeps up, who knows where the Gophers will stop? Omaha?

SIGNINGS
UM Duluth signed four players for next season
April Hansen, Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa, MH
Alyssa Nelson, Hayfield, MH/OH
Eleena Iisakka, Esko, S
Rachel Lamers, Kimberly, WI, OH

Winona State signed three
Mollie Bjelland, Grantsburg, WI, RS/S
Susan Clausen, Johnston, IA, S
Kim Nemcek, Geneva, IL MH

ALL STAR GAMES
The 2nd Polar all star game along with the Polar League All Conference team can be found on the Cloquet Pine Journal article.

Next up: tomorrow morning with the St. John's recap.

Gophers Open NCAAs, Metro All Conference Teams

#1 posting 11.30.2006
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GOPHERS OPEN NCAAS TODAY
Minnesota starts its NCAA journey today on the road at Albany. They take on Siena, a school in the Albany suburbs, at 5 pm. A look at the match up from the MN Daily.

FALL ALL CONFERENCE
The StartTribune has a boatload of metro area all conference teams.

Lanesboro's season is reviewed and the Southeast all conference team is named in the Spring Grove Herald. Lanesboro's Hannah Glor was POY in the league.

If you have any All conference teams send them this way so we can get them up.

Good Luck Gophers tonight.

Next up: tomorrow morning

SW Signings, Siena's Outlook

#1 posting 11.29.2006
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SIGNINGS
SW MN State signed four players for next season:
Tiffany Burch, Shanwnee Mission East, KS
Kasey Uran, Sartell-St. Stephen the St. Cloud Times POY
Krystal Schwanke, Springfield the New Ulm Journal POY
and Leah Bjerke, Rochester Mayo

SIENA
Here is the Siena site again to check out the Gophers first opponent.

I digested the numbers, if it means anything for their last game against Fairfield in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championships:

NUMBER CRUNCHING
fbso: total points; earned %; allowed %
Siena 35/68--.515; 111; 71-.640; 35-.289.
Fairfield 39/66--.591; 121; 86-.711; 40-.361
Fairfield had better fbso #s and total points, but that didn't prevent Siena from winning in five. Fairfield had too many mistakes to survive.

A look at the Siena rotations
1 Hummel 27-18 .600
2 London 22-21 .552
3 Hackett/Honore (5) 17-21 .447
4 Kobayashi 11-16 .407
5 Robello 20-16 .556
6 Gustafson/Hackett (5) 15-26 .366

In game five Siena made a switch starting off with Honore instead in Hackett's spot, serving first, followed by Kobayashi, Robello, then Hackett, Hummel and London.

The points in their rotations appear that they do have some holes. Gophers like to climb in holes.

Next up: tomorrow morning, probably not as late.

Minnesota Trio All Big 10

#2 posting 11.28.2006
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ALL BIG 10
Three Minnesota Gophers have been named to the All Big 10 first team: Meredith Nelson, MH unanimous; Kelly Bowman RH and Malama Peniata, L. Peniata was also named defensive player of the year.
Jessy Jones, MH was named honorable mention.

Penn State's frosh phenom Megan Hodge was POY and Frosh of the year.

Congratulations Gophers

Next up: tomorrow morning

UND, SCSU Signings, Falkenhagen Resigns

#1 posting 11.28.2006
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SIGNINGS
North Dakota has signed Devin Trefz, Bagley a 6-1 MH and Shanna Schmiesing, Sauk Centre, a 5-10 OH.
St. Cloud State has signed Jennifer Waterman, Anoka a 5-11 S; Amy Gatz, Howard-Lake-Waverly-Winsted a 6-2 MH and Ashley Shields, Whitefish Bay, WI an OH.

HIEBERT
Gopher coach Mike Hiebert is featured in an article on the Big 10 site. It recounts his career at both Illinois and of course MN with his skill at program building.

POLLS
The #8 NCAA tournament seeded Gophers are the #9 team in the AVCA poll. Don't ask me how these things work out.

COACHING NEWS
Kim Falkenhagen has resigned at Bemidji State. Falkenhagen had a four year record of 35-94.

CONFERENCE NEWS
Milaca and Mora have a new conference home--the West Central. With the end of the Rum River five schools had to find a new conference. Foley already had been accepted into the now 18 team conference. The conference could divide into three 6 team divisions.

UM Crookston's fate could be headed to D3. from the Grand Forks Herald

VIDEO
I know it is about a month ago, but you can watch the Wayzata Armstrong 5AAA match right from your computer. Cable 12 the NW Suburban cable station has each game of the match on video if you want to watch. Here is game one, game two and game three.

Next up: tomorrow morning

More on Seeds and All Area

#1 posting 11.27.2006
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MORE ON GOPHER SEED
The Minneapolis StarTribune was also in attendance and has their take on the tournament at hand and the mysterious seeding process.

The MN Daily recaps the pair of wins over Purdue and Indiana.

MORE ALL AREA
Well fans you pulled through, here is the rest of the Winona Daily News all area team
First Team:
Tori Lind - Mabel-Canton sr MH, first team all-state, 381 kills, 181 digs,62 blocks, 900 career kills
Kate Kreuzer - Winona sr. S, 70 kills, 246 assists, 187 digs
Jenny Gilbertson - Winona Cotter jr. MH, 293 kills, 163 digs
Hannah Glor - Lanesboro sr. MH, 275 kills, 115 ace serves
Jackie Hust - W-K sr. OH, 293 kills, 163 digs
Ashley King - Caledonia sr. OH, 258 kills, 325 digs
Second Team:
Katelyn Horihan - Mabel-Canton soph MH, first team all-state, 400 kills,.454 efficiency, 98 blocks, 700 career kills
Raechelle Manning - Mabel-Canton sr S, 889 assists, 64 ace serves, 1,730career assists
Danielle Peters - W-K sr. OH, 285 kills, 178 digs, 46 ace serves
Savannah Sawle - Rushford-Peterson sr. MH, 216 kills, 71 ace blocks, 160 digs, 526 career kills
Devin Bowlin - Winona Cotter sr. OH, 219 digs, 138 kills
Afton Glander - Alma, WI sr. libero, 157 digs

If you know of all conference or all area teams that this site hasn't covered let me know. Go to my profile to email me the missing information. I am still looking for the Duluth News Tribune All area team.

Next up: tomorrow morning

Gophers Shown No Love

#2 posting 11.26.2006
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#8 GOPHERS SENT TO ALBANY
I went to the Minnesota Gopher selection party and the good news is the Gophers are the #8 seed in the country. The bad news is, for the third year in a row, the Gophers are on the road to start in Albany, NY. In 2004 the Gophers had to go east, and in that year they were runners up to Stanford. But the lack of love from the NCAA had many gasps and groans from the many in attendance this afternoon. They also will play the Thursday/Friday games.

First off the NCAA only seeds 16 teams. Why? I think they want to keep things local, build up attendance. The other three teams in the Albany bracket are from NY: Siena of the Metro Atlantic, the Gophers first opponent, and then the nominal host Albany and St. John's from the Big East.

Siena is close to home and is counting on their fan base to provide them a lift. Siena made the tournament as an automatic qualifier with a five game win over Fairfield in the Metro Atlantic tournament.

7 Big 10 teams are still dancing. Penn State, as you would expect is home, but so is Wisconsin and Purdue. Michigan, Michigan State, Ohio State are all road warriors. Of the top 8 seeds only #6 Washington is sent packing to Colorado, but if they get the job done there they are back in Seattle.

Why is Minnesota the Rodney Dangerfield of this tournament?

The NCAA needs to seed ALL 64 teams, and it probably needs to do away with home court advantages too. Texas and Florida don't have to leave home if they want to make the final four. That is a fairness issue. I know the Gophers benefited in 2004 when they hosted the regionals.

Here is the NCAA press release.

I don't know if anyone does bracketology, but make a copy of this bracket and start an office pool.

And of course you need the official website of the NCAA tournament. not much there yet.

I will have more on Siena as the week progresses.

Next up: tomorrow morning

Gophers 2nd; Hust POY

#1 posting 11.26.2006
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GOPHERS 2ND IN BIG 10
Minnesota closed out the regular season with a sweep at Indiana. Now today they will await word on the NCAA seeding which should take place between 2-3 pm today.

NUMBER CRUNCHING
team, FBSO; points, earned tot-%; allowed tot-%
Minnesota 28/45-.622; 90; 68--.756; 23-.333
Indiana 18/47---.383; 69; 46--.667; 22--.244

ROTATION POINTS
Tan 15-11 .577
Peniata 18-14 .563
Bowman 16-12 .571
Crumpston 17-9 .654
Nelson 12-15 .444
Hartmann 12-8 .600
A day after being the lowest, Crumpston's rotation rose to the top. However the next rotation faltered. Hartmann again had her second straight game of over .600

HUST POY
Jackie Hust, Wabasha-Kellogg has been named player of the year in the Winona Daily News.
I have tried to find the other members of the WDN all area team, but I couldn't find a link. If you know them send them along so the rest of the world can see too.

In the Hust story it was reported that coach Katie Gove is resigning. That makes three coaches that I know about: Apple Valley's Walt Weaver and Central Christian's Tracy Grussing have also resigned. I will be putting a link up soon for coaching openings.

Next up: after the NCAA seedings today.

Gophers Hammer Purdue

#1 posting 11.24.2006
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GOPHERS HAMMERDOWN PURDUE
The #10 Minnesota Gophers put the hammer down last night at #22 Purdue in a convincing post thanksgiving day sweep 22, 22, 23. A powerful .430 hitting % left no doubt in anyones mind where the Gophers stand. Minnesota will play at Indiana tonight and that should go the Gophers way. Penn State is at home against Northwestern. If MN has a chance to tie for the title NW would have to win, but then Penn State has the tiebreaker anyway.

Here are the Minnesota and Purdue views of the match last night.

BY THE NUMBERS (points-earned-earned %-gave away-ga%)
Minnesota 90; 67; .744; 23; .343
Purdue 67; 44; .657; 23; .256
FBSO
Minnesota 37/50---.750
Purdue 22/48--.458

ROTATION POINTS
Tan 13-9 .591
Peniata 20-11 .645
Bowman 14-10 .583
Crumpston 13-17 .433
Nelson 12-8 .600
Hartmann 17-11 .607
Three rotations over .600 with two knocking at the door. The only problem was rotation #4 with a game high 17 points scored on it.

POST SEASON AWARDS
Cook County has a wrap up of their season in the Cook County News-Herald.

The Hiawatha Valley League has named their all conference squad:
State runner up Stewartville had four members of the squad:
Leigh Splittstoesser, S, 2007
Alex Nold, MH, 2007
Amanda Thompson, MH, 2007
Julie Rainey, OH, 2010

Three schools had 3
Ashley Pyfferoen, Byron, OH, 2007
Jill Storlie, Byron, MH, 2008
Racquel Reker,Byron, MH, 2007
Jenny Gilbertson, Winona Cotter, MH, 2008
Devin Bowlin, Winona Cotter, OH, 2007
Paula Angst, Winona Cotter, MH, 2007
Ashley Ahmann, Roch Lourdes, OH, 2007
Emily Welhaven, Roch Lourdes, OH, 2007
Caitlin Brunkhorst, Roch Lourdes, RH, 2007
4 schools had 2
Laura Canton, Pine Island, MH, 2007
Christina Maley, Pine Island, MH, 2008
Alyssa Nelson, Hayfield, OH, 2007
Leslie Wilson, Hayfield, OH, 2008
Amanda Schroeder, Kasson-Mantorville, S, 2007
Ashleigh Betha, Kasson-Mantorville, L, 2007
Erin Nibbe, Lake City, OH, 2007
Amy Vaith, Lake City, S, 2007
4 had one each
Kristin Boyum, Kenyon-Wanamingo, OH, 2007
Natassja Elliot, Triton, S, 2007
Julia Thompson, Cannon Falls, S, 2007
Kelli Boras, Zumbrota-Mazeppa, L, 2008

Thanks to all the readers that help make this site a must see spot on the internet superhighway.

Next up: tomorrow morning

D1 Minnesotans Pick Up Awards

#1 posting 11.24.2006
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Today the Gophers have a big contest at Purdue with NCAA hosting implications. If the Gophers take care of business it would be close to impossible for the NCAA to stiff them like they did last year.

MINNESOTANS IN D1
Today we will take a look at how some of the Minnesota players in D1 did this season.

UConn was the 7th seed in the Big East tournament and lost to Louisville in quarterfinals in four games. Bridget Denson-Dorman, Hopkins; Megan Frey, Chaska and Lorelle Schaub, Irondale made up the Minnesotans on the squad. UConn was 19-11 on the year. Denson-Dorman played in 103 games and averaged 12.69 assists per game and led the team with 44 ace serves. Schaub played in 84 games had 1.5 kills and 1.11 blocks pg. Frey played in 24 games.

Denson-Dorman was named to the Big East Second team.

UW Green Bay had three Minnesotans: Sarah Rauen, North Branch; Betty Slinger, Bethlehem Academy; and Leah Steinbauer, Medford. Both Rauen and Slinger were involved in 113 games, Steinbauer played in 57.
Rauen had 2.82 kills per game, 3rd on the team, 2nd on the digging front, and led UWGB with 40 aces.
Slinger averaged 9.12 assists to lead the team, averaged 2.33 kpg which is good for fourth and 3rd in digging.

Slinger was named to the Horizon all Conference first team, her second straight honor. Both Rauen and Slinger were players of the week once during the season.

Central Florida, with Jana Mitchell from Ossseo, lost in the first round of the C-USA tournament to UAB losing in four. Mitchell had 9 kills along with a hand in six blocks. UCF was 5-24 on the year. Mitchell had 96 kills for the year. She led the team with 1.15 blocks per game.

North Dakota State has 7 Minnesotans on their roster. Mattie Johnson, Lakeville North was voted newcomer of the year in the D1 independent teams and second team all conference. Johnson averaged 12.29 assists per game.

Christy Stuewe, Mayer Lutheran, was first team all conference. Stuewe had 2.67 kpg, and 1.43 bpg. She led NDSU with in kill % with .356.

Kari Fagnan, Fridley led the Bison with 4.82 dgp. Chloe Quirk, Mankato West was 3rd in digs with 2.74. Kelly Kauffmann, Hopkins; and Kristen Hille, Sauk Rapids-Rice also saw big court time.

South Dakota State had six Minnesotans on their roster. Samantha Pearson, Chaska was named to the second team for the Independent squads in D1. She led SDSU with 4.91 dpg.
Laura Slagter, Mounds View also saw a lot of court time.

Iowa State, Northern Iowa, and Marquette's regular seasons are not over. I will review those teams when they are done.

Thanks to all the help from my readers that make this site what it is.

Next up: tomorrow morning.

Photos From State

#2 posting 11.23.2006
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here is the photo edition of the state tournament taken by my trusty Olympus D-490. None of theese photos will be up for Pulitzers. The problem was I thought I was taking a shot of the action when it was a split second after. So most of the time the photos are either players standing around after the attack, or players sprawled on the floor with the ball richocet off in the distance. Any way here is the best of the bunch.



When Spuds attack. This is probably an Ashley Wheeler attack.

Here is Eagan, Moorhead's conqueror moving to the ball (top center)

Hibbing's Alia Cook? going up for an attack against Blaine.

Blaine's Jessica Granquist on the floor. Jackie Kelly ready to set.

Lake of the Woods Carlie Waibel setting. Courtney Bitter is next to her.

Leigh Splittstoesser ready to set for Stewartville.

Before the A championship between Minneota and Bethlehem Academy

Minneota's Hayley Hennen about to set.

Minneota's Samantha Hennen with both hands up in celebration.

BAs Holly Hafemeyer going up for the block.

BA setting it up.

This is about the only shot that I have a player going up for an attack. I think it may be an overpass kill coming up judging from the players on the floor for Minneota.

Stewartville up for the block on Jordan.

Stewartville setting up after a Leah Dietel attack.

Jordan calling the ball out.

Celebrating the AA Jordan State Championship.

Next up: tomorrow morning. happy thanksgiving

Uran POY, Channel 12 Team

#1 posting 11.23.2006
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HAPPY THANKSGIVING
Thanks to all the readers that help providing this site with worthwhile information

URAN POY
Casey Uran, Sartell has been named player of the year in the St. Cloud Times. Here are profiles of the balance of the squad.

Cable channel 12 in the Northwest suburbs has a video clip that is quite good about their all area volleyball team. It is worth three to four minutes of your time. Click on play video when you get there.

If you know of any all this or all that list I will get it up.

SIGNINGS
To catch up:
Casey Uran, Sartell to SW MN State
Shanna Schmiesing, Sauk Centre, to North Dakota
Steph Wallin, Armstrong to High Point

ALL DISTRICT
UW Green Bay players Betty Slinger (Bethlehem Academy) and Sarah Rauen (North Branch) have recognized for the Academic All-District V First Team. From the ECM Post Review.

REVIEWS OF THE YEAR
Anoka-Ramsey finished fourth in the latest JUCO state tournament. Here is the review of their season from the East Central MN Post Review.

Murray County Central handed out their awards recently. From the Murray County News.

Pequot Lakes and Pine River-Backus named their award winners. From the Lake Country Echo.

Lanesboro and Mabel-Canton also join the award parade. From the Republican-Leader.

ALL STAR GAME
The Duluth all stars beat the Area all stars last week in five games in the Bernick’s Pepsi All-Star Volleyball Game. Esko's Eleena Iisakka was named MVP for the Duluth squad, Erin Jacobson, Virginia was MVP for the Area team. From the Cloquet Pine Journal.

Next up: the long awaited state tournament photos. Come back after your turkey. They will NOT be amazing photos due to the photographer and the slow, slow camera.