Respect, UMD vs Concordia St. Paul, Final HS Polls

#1 posting 10.24.2006
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OVERDUE RESPECT
Minnesota jumped again in the polls to #12 in the AVCA D1 poll this week. The Gophers have rocketed up 11 places in two weeks. MN is 13-1 with all their players in place.
This weekend will be a good test with strong #24 Ohio State and #2 Penn State teams showing up at the Pavillion. If you like great college volleyball this will be the place this weekend.

Malama Peniata grabbed her 2nd defensive player of the week honors in the Big 10. The offensive award was shared by Anna Szerszen, Ohio State and Megan Hodge, Penn State both freshmen hitters.

MORE AWARDS
D2
NORTH CENTRAL
UM Duluth picked up two North Central awards yesterday with Vicky Braegelmann winning her 6th offensive award, and Katie Gangelhoff winning her 5th setter award. Braegelmann shared the offensive award with Carlie Christensen of Nebraska Omaha. It was Christensen's first honor.
The only non UMD award winner was Christina Reicks, Nebraska Omaha for the defensive player of the week. It was win number three for Reicks who now has tied Chelsea Meierotto, UMD for the most honors.

NORTHERN SUN
Jessica Lucia, Concordia St. Paul won her 3rd Northern Sun offensive award putting her in a tie with Erin Contons of SW MN State. Maggie McNamara of CSP also picked up the setter award her 5th this year.
Melanie Perez of Northern State broke the Concordia run with her 4th defensive award.

A big non con match today: #4 UM Duluth travels to #6 Concordia St. Paul with the #1 ranking in the North Central section on the line.

UM Crookston is battling Bemidji State for the 7th spot in the Northern Sun. No one wants to face Concordia St. Paul in the first round.

The MIAC site wasn't responding this morning so I can't give you those winners.
However the setter award does go to Audrey Volstad of St. Olaf. story from the West Central Tribune.

UMAC
The UMAC winners this week were
Sarah Whitmore, Northwestern, MN for offense along with teammate Sarah Zosel for setting. Jennifer Bourdon of Presentation took defensive honors.

Crown beat Northland in four last night.

FINAL HS POLL
The top spots didn't change in the last MN HS poll. Minneota was the only unanimous #1. DGF had four first place votes in AA with Jordan taking three. The only team to get a vote for #1 other than Chaska was Owatonna.

HS SEEDS
The Star Tribune looks at the section tournaments with ministate tournament in 6AAA the main focus.
The Isanti County News goes over the seeds with Cambridge-Isanti and Braham in the upcoming HS playoffs.

SECTION PLAYDOWNS
Tracy-Milroy-Balaton dodged a bullet and won their first contest in 3AA in a four game win over Canby. from the Marshall Independent.
Luverne swept Lake Crystal-Wellcome Memorial to open 3AA play. From the Worthington Daily Globe.
Scroll down in the St. Cloud Times to get to the St. Cloud Cathedral/Zimmerman contest won by SCC.

CAMDEN CHAMPIONSHIP
Minneota won the Camden championship in a four game win over Lakeview. The only flaw was a game three loss. That was Minneota's only game loss in conference this year. From the Marshall Independent.

Here are boxes from the Duluth News Tribune with Carlton's five game win over Hermantown leading the way.
More Boxes in the Grand Forks Herald. with the 5 game match between Lake of the Woods and Kittson Central the highlight.

LAST WEEK
Underwood finished 4th in their own tournament last Thursday. Wheaton walked off with the top spot. In the same article Fergus Falls CC was 1-3 in a crossover tournament at Central Lakes.

NUMBER CRUNCHING
ASSISTS
5 games
AA
Morgan Pieper, Warroad 55 vs Bagley 3-2
Sannie Olson, Hermantown 49 vs Carlton 2-3
4 games
NAIA
Annette Case, Crown 51 vs Northland 3-1
AA
Lindsay Daniels, TMB 38 vs Canby 3-1

DIGS
4 games
NAIA
Melissa Anderson, Northland 20 vs Crown 1-3
AA
Shelbie Jones, TMB 23 vs Canby 3-1

KILLS
5 games
AAA
Blair Murphy, Hermantown 27 vs Carlton 2-3
AA
Katie Rygh, Warroad 24 vs Bagley 3-2
Devin Trefz, Bagley 20 vs Warroad 2-3
Nicole Olson, Lake of the Woods 19 vs Kittson Central 3-2
Danielle Soukkala, Carlton 17 vs Hermantown 3-2
A
Whitney Langen, Kittson Central 19 vs Lake of the Woods 2-3
4 games
NAIA
Jennifer Sunwall, Crown 31 vs Northland 3-1
Melissa Anderson, Northland 23 vs Crown 1-3
Danielle Schiebout, Crown 18 vs Northland 3-1
AA
Michele Lanoue, TMB 19 vs Canby 3-1
A
Claire Kopfmann, Minneota 19 vs Lakeview 3-1
Alyssa Buysse, Minneota 16 vs Lakeview 3-1
Steph Boulton, Minneota 15 vs Lakeview 3-1

Next up: later today in the evening