Out & About: Benilde-St. Margaret/Cooper

#2 posting 10.25.2006
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5AAA Second Round
#7 BENILDE-ST. MARGARET’S 3, #10 COOPER 0
25-17, 25-21, 25-14

In the first game at Hopkins, Benilde-St. Margaret's beat Cooper in a sweep. Better side out % and more earned points delivered the victory for BSM.

BSM led early 6-2 after Devon McFadden's serve. Cooper did have their side out game going early with four first ball side outs in five services, but it escaped soon after. Lauren Carisch came up with three service points, and Natalie Guggenberger added four to make it 22-10 for BSM's biggest lead, after a side out Blair Beneke delivered four points to cut the lead to 22-14, but the margin was too much to overcome as side outs ruled the last five points.

BSM held early leads at 6-0 and 9-2, and the BSM side out game was strong early with 8 of 10 first ball side outs. Cooper did close to 22-19, but the game ended with five straight side outs and BSM won 25-21. Kachine Alexander came up with six points in the second game.

Game three was fairly tight with a 10-8 lead by BSM, but then 8 straight points blew the game open 18-8. Five straight Cooper hitting errors started the momentum shift. Megan Kelly was at the service line during the run. Neither team sided out well in the third game with Cooper checking in with .333 and BSM only .500.

Rotation, player, position, height, year, aces-blocks-kills---points
BENILDE-ST. MARGARET’S
1fr Lauren Carisch, RH, 5-10, 2008 0-.5-3---3.5
1br Brittany Mayclin, S, 5-8, 2007 0-0-1---1
2 Erin Sherman, OH, 5-6, 2009 0-0-11----11
3 Devon McFadden, MH, 5-11, 2007 0-.5-4---4.5
4 Natalie Guggenberger, S, 5-6, 2009 3-0-2---5
5 Kachine Alexander, OH, 5-10, 2007, 0-1-12---13 also played middle
6br Megan Kelly, L, 5-9, 2007 0-0-1----1
6fr Danielle Bennett-Curry, MH, 5-8, 2009 0-0-5---5 mainly hit left
Totals: 3-2-39---44 points, 31 points on Cooper errors

COOPER
1 Krista Gary, S, 5-5, 2007 1-0-4----5
2 Allie Oelfke, OH, 5-7, 0-0-1----1
3br Christine Hanks, MH 5-7, 2009 0-0-0----0
3br Vicky Yang, BR 0-0-0----0
3fr Alycia Turner, MH, 6-0, 2007 0-0-4---4
4 Kelsey Thingvold, RH 5-9, 2007, 0-.5-3---3.5
5 Blair Benecke, OH, 5-7, 2008 0-0-3---3
6br Rachel Cruikshank, L, 5-6, 2007 0-0-0----0
6fr Stephanie Hyser, MH, 5-9, 2007 0-.5-3---3.5
Totals: 1-1-18----20 points, 31 on Benilde-St. Margaret errors

PLAYER OF THE GAME
Kachine Alexander

NUMBER CRUNCHING
team, 1stso/serves--1stso%; pts scored, % earned, % allowed
Benilde-SM 24/36---.667; 75; .587; .608
Cooper 19/36---.528; 51; .392; .413
Strong first ball side out early had BSM establishing their game. Another big difference came in the points earned category with BSM holding a big advantage. BSM did have 21 more kills on the night. BSM did give a chunck of points away however.

ROTATION POINTS
rotation, name, points for-against pct
BENILDE-SM
1 Carisch 18-10 .643
2 Sherman 11-9 .550
3 McFadden 14-7 .667
4 Guggenberger 12-11 .522
5 Alexander 6-7 .462
6 Kelly 14-8 .636

COOPER
1 Gary 10-17 .370
2 Oelfke 10-11 .476
3 Yang 8-15 .348
4 Thingvold 6-13 .316
5 Benecke 11-6 .647
6 Cruikshank 7-13 .350

Three rotations delivered over .600 in the BSM lineup. Cooper had one come up big. Only one BSM rotation was on the negative side. Five Cooper rotations were sub .500.

Next up: the Hopkins/St. Louis Park game, then I will revisit and put up the story