Out & About: Eden Prairie/Burnsville

#6 posting 9.23.2006
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APPLE VALLEY TOURNAMENT
9th Place Finals
Eden Prairie 2, Burnsville 0

In a battle of Lake Conference teams Eden Prairie had better ball control and exploited their leftsides in a 25-21, 25-18 win.

In game one Burnsville jumped to an early lead 3-1 on three serves by Thea Deach including one ace. Tori Dixon was involved with a kill and a block. EP didn't get their first lead until 8-7 when Courtney Giles served up an ace. After a side out Burnsville regained the lead with Miranda Loken's serve 10-9. The Blaze built it up to 14-11 after Deach's second serve. but from that point on EP went on a 14-7 run to win 25-21. EP didn't take the lead for good until Giles' serve at 20-19. Jessi Peterson put down five points to help finish Burnsville in game one. Hailey Cowles finished the game with a side out kill.

EP didn't have to come from behind in game two. They led 6-2 after two serves and Burnsville took a time at 7-2. Cowles had three kills for EP points at 8-2. Burnsville had problems siding out in game two and EP took advantage of that with Giles serving up four and Lindsay Simmons providing three points. Burnsville took their last time out at 18-11 after three Burnsville errors for points. Both teams finished 7-7, but EP was a lot closer to the finish line.

Serve order, Name, Position, Aces, Blocks, Kills---totals
EDEN PRAIRIE
#1br Elise Bailey, BR 0-0-0--0
#1fr Jessi Peterson, OH 0-0-8---8
#2 Katie Vohnoutka, MH 2, 0, 2---4
#3 Hayley Buchanan, S 0-0-0---0
#4 Hailey Cowles, OH 0-.5-14---14.5
#5 Courtney Giles, MH 1-.5-2---3.5
#6 Lindsay Simmons, RS 0-0-0---0
Totals 3-1-26---30 points, 20 points on Burnsville errors

BURNSVILLE
#1br Thea Deach, BR 1-0-0---1
#1fr Lauren Butler 0-0-2----2
#2br Bekka Gustafson, L 0-0-0---0
#2fr Danielle Dove RH 0-.5-1--1.5
#3 Samantha Pitzl, OH 1-0-7---8
#4 Tori Dixon, MH 2-.5-7--9.5
#5 Miranda Loken, S 0-0-0---0
#6 Katie Thomason, OH 1-0-5--6
Totals: 5-1-22--28 points, 11 points on EP errors

Player of the Game
This is the 3rd time for Hailey Cowles

team, 1stso/serves--1stso%; pts scored, % earned, % allowed
Eden Prairie 12/22--.545; 30, .600; .282
Burnsville 7/21---.333; 28, .718; .400

POINTS BY ROTATION
Eden Prairie
1 8-10 -2
2 10-5 +5
3 8-6 +2
4 6-5 +1
5 10-9 +1
6 8-4 +4

Burnsville
1 8-12 -4
2 5-8 -3
3 5-10 -5
4 7-7 0
5 5-9 -4
6 7-6 +1
One serve rotation in the negatives for EP, one in the positive zone for Burnsville that explains quite a bit. Also the points allowed. 40% of EPs points were on gifts.

Next up: Lord Selkirk vs Marshall in the 3rd place game followed by the championship between Lakeville North and Apple Valley