Out & About: Anoka/Maple Grove

#2 posting 9.28.2006
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Anoka 3, Maple Grove 1
25-10, 26-28, 26-24, 25-15

Both teams entered the game 9-3, Anoka added one in the left hand column. It was a pair of tight games sandwiched by comfortable wins by Anoka.

The first game was over pretty quickly. Maple Grove did not get a side out until the 5th rotation. Madison Vermette started the Anoka point production with five on her serve. Jen Waterman added four. At that point it was 10-1. MG burned one time out at 9-1. MG did make a little run on Rachel Johnsrud's serve with four points, plus the earlier side out. After the side out on her serve it was 10-6. Kelsey Ellis added four, and Kaylee Tassoni put five more in the Anoka ledger. After her serve it was 21-8. Of the first four Anoka servers, three ended their serves on missed attempts. A strange situation developed on MG's next serve. There was confusion on who was to serve due to a sub for Kelsey Jacobs. MG never got off the serve after the whistle because they were staring at each other.

The second game started like the first with Anoka grabbing a 4-0 lead. MG did have better luck at siding out in this game and fought back to tie the game at 7. Anoka built a 14-8 lead during Vermette's serve. A couple of sideouts gave the ball to Allison Dahlberg. A tip kill by Megan Gronholm and an Anoka hitting error forced Anoka into a time out at 15-11. They got the missed serve after the time out, but the ease of the first game was replaced by an uphill climb. MG sided out again and Johnsrud served up three to cut the lead to 16-15. The ball changed hands four times. Anoka rebuilt its lead to 21-17 with an ace by Kelly Peterson. Anoka led 23-19 after Vermette's ace. Then a dump by Allie Krafve gave MG the side out and Krafve made use of it with four straight points off her serve thanks to two kills by Dahlberg. MG had their first lead at 24-23 on a passing error by Anoka. A Jen Waterman kill and a MG hitting error put Anoka in the driver's seat at 25-24. A big block on Kelsey Ellis by Johnsrud and Gronholm tied it at 25. Ellis did connect on a tip kill gave the advantage to Anoka 26-25, but Ellis served wide and they never got the ball back. An overpass kill by Erikka Korpi followed by a Jacobs kill finished the game off 28-26 MG.

MG rode that momentum into the third game at 5-1, thanks to two straight sideouts. The first was an unconventional sideout as Ellis hammered a shot that richoceted off Krafve's body to the right back section on the Anoka side. But they didn't get that important sideout against Ellis and she delivered five points to give the lead back to Anoka 7-5. Abbey Fahnhorst had two kills in the stretch. MG tied it up first at 10 on three serves by Jacobs. Neither teams got far from each other. Anoka did go up 18-16 on two MG hitting errors. MG came right back with a block by Korpi and a kill by Jacobs to tie it at 18. Anoka got the next three points at 21-18 with point 21 an ace by Megan Hambleton. A MG side out stopped the run. Anoka again stretched the lead to 23-20 on two kills by Fahnhorst. Another MG time out got the intended result with a missed serve. Then Anoka had a hitting erro and a violation to tie it up. A kill by Waterman gave it back to Anoka, but Peterson missed her serve. Krafve's serve was answered with an Ellis kill and the final Anoka point came on Vermette's serve with an attack error by Gronholm.

Anoka established themselves early with points on the first seven serves. They led 3-0 early and built it up to 11-4. MG had problems staying out of the net at this point with points 6, 7, and 9 all due to this problem. The closest MG was to come in game four was 16-11. But a missed serve stopped the mini rally. The key difference in game four: Anoka sided out at 8/11; while MG was at 1/11.

Serve order, Name, Position, Aces, Blocks, Kills---totals
ANOKA
#1 Madison Vermette, MH 2-.5-7---9.5
#2 Jen Waterman, RH 2-0-7---9
#3 Kelsey Ellis, OH 2-2-9--13
#4br Kaylee Tassoni, DS 2-0-0---2
#4fr Kayla Berning, MH 0-2.5-3--5
#5 Molly Staton, S 0-1-1---2
#6bra Kelly Peterson, DS 2-0-0---2
#6brb Megan Hambleton, DS 2-0-0--2
#6fr Abbey Fahnhorst, OH 0-1-11---12
Totals: 12-7-38---57 points, 45 points on Maple Grove errors

MAPLE GROVE
#1 Allie Krafve, S 1-0-3----4
#2 Allison Dahlberg, OH 0-0-8---8
#3 Rachel Johnsrud, MH 3-0.5-5--8.5
#4 Megan Gronholm, RH 0-0.5-3--3.5
#5 Kelsey Jacobs, OH 1-1.5-8--10.5
#6br Kelsey Smith, L 0-0-0---0
#6fr Kerikka Korpi, MH 0-2.5-6---8.5
Totals: 5-5-33---43 points, 34 points on Anoka errors

PLAYER OF THE GAME
Kelsey Ellis

NUMBER CRUNCHING
team, 1stso/serves--1stso%; pts scored, % earned, % allowed
Anoka 24/43--.558; 102, .559; .442
Maple Grove 16/43--.372; 77; .558; .441
A pair of similar teams, but Anoka held a big edge in 1st ball side out.

Rotation Point totals
Anoka
1 22-12 +10
2 17-18 -1
3 21-15 +6
4 19-11 +8
5 10-13 -3
6 12-9 +3

Maple Grove
1 14-21 -7
2 9-13 -4
3 22-21 +1
4 8-18 -10
5 12-15 -3
6 11-12 -1

Next up: tomorrow morning