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#3 posting 9.27.2006
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HS LATE REPORTS
Forest Lake opened Suburban East action with two wins last week. They beat Park-Cottage Grove in four and White Bear Lake in a sweep. from the Forest Lake Times.

The schedulemaker was not kind to Laporte. They have five matches and one tournament in a nine day stretch. To see what Laporte has been up to and what will happen during "hell" week (there word, not mine).

North Branch is now has six wins in a row with a sweep over Robbinsdale Cooper. from the East Central MN Post Review.

St. James is undefeated in South Central action. They went five with Waseca, and swept Blue Earth and St. Peter. From the St. James News.

HENRY BEATS WASHBURN IN 4
Minneapolis Henry beat Mpls Washburn in a game that was advanced a day due to the Homecoming coronation event at Washburn tomorrow. Henry dropped the first game but then took the next three 18, 12, 22.

In game one Henry led 6-1, but failed to side out the next three Washburn servers and as a result was down 12-10. Washburn led 16-13, but Lucia Carver evened it up after a side out at 17-17. Henry led 20-18, but gave away four points and trailed 22-20. Henry tied it up at 22, but a net violation, and then an ace made it 24-22. A Washburn hitting error made it 24-23, but Wendy Vang served deep for a Washburn 25-23 win.

In game two Washburn held the advantage throughout they were up 14-8 with seven points in rotation 5. They led 17-12 in rotation one's serve when a tip kill by Xylina Yang gave the ball back to Henry. Stef Zappa then rattled off 11 straight to make it 24-17. Zappa had two aces in the run. A Henry hitting error and Washburn passing error.

Henry had their best side out game in game three with 5/8. On the flip side Henry milked points in 6/8 rotations. The biggest run came on Carver's serve with five to make it 24-11.

Game four started off with Washburn building a 8-3 lead. Wendy Vang, in rotation three, evened it up for Henry with five service points. Both teams were fairly tight with Washburn leading 16-14 at one point and Zappa regaining with a 19-16 margin. Washburn led 21-20 after an unforced error. A time out resulted in a missed serve wide. That put the ball in Vang's hadnd and she delivered three points to make it 24-21. She missed the closer in the net. But on Washburn's next serve Jannetta Parker closed out the game with a kill off the back wall.

For the night Kiah Hanssen-Kilpatrick had 10 kills.

NUMBER CRUNCHING
DIGS
5 games
Jenny Ewert, St. James 43 vs Waseca 3-2
Breau Miller, St. James 37 vs Waseca 3-2
3 games
AA
Jenny Ewert, St. James 31 vs Blue Earth 3-0

KILLS
5 games
AA
Anna Tuura, St. James 19 vs Waseca 3-2

Next time: tomorrow morning