Two #1s Fall in AA

#2 posting 11.2.2008
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AA PLAYOFFS
SECTION 1
Stewartville beat Caledonia in five with a margin of 2 points. Julie Rainey had 17 kills and 32 digs for the Tigers. From the Winona Daily News.

SECTION 2
Jordan won the rubber match with LeSueur-Henderson in a sweep with a margin of 25 points. During the year the two teams split their matches. LSH led 24-22 in set one before Jordan rallied for a 28-26 victory. Brittany Chambers had a 20/20 night with 27 kills and 22 digs. From the Jordan News and Mankato Free Press.

SECTION 3
Defending AA champ Marshall swept Yellow Medicine East. The papers that cover these teams don't publish on Sunday. Look for links on Monday.

SECTION 4
I reported (briefly) on the Concordia Roseville sweep of Minnehaha and will get back to the story later today.

SECTION 5
Delano returns to state with a sweep of Foley. Not a link to be found.

SECTION 6
St. Cloud Cathedral, last years AA runner up, beat Rocori in four with a margin of 6 points. From the St. Cloud Times.

SECTION 7
Hibbing topped Esko in a three set sweep with a margin of 25 points. The jump serve was a big weapon for the Bluejackets. From the Duluth News Tribune.

SECTION 8
#2 South Wadena-Deer Creek beat #1 North East Grand Forks in four with a margin of 19 points. WDC's Brigetta Berg had 32 kills and 27 digs. From the Grand Forks Herald.

All the section winners were #1 seeds except in Section 8 with #2 south Wadena-Deer Creek and Section 4 with #2 east Concordia Roseville.

Here is how I see the state seeds 1-8 (the state only seeds one to four)
1. Jordan
2. Marshall
3. Hibbing
4. St. Cloud Cathedral
5. Stewartville
6. Delano
7. Wadena-Deer Creek
8. Concordia Roseville

Next up: A results

Playoff Out & About: Concordia Roseville/Minnehaha

#6 posting 11.1.2008
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SECTION 4AA
Championship
CONCORDIA ROSEVILLE beacons 3, MINNEHAHA redhawks 0
(25-22, 25-13, 25-16)

Concordia Roseville got revenge for a regular season 4 set loss to TriMetro champ Minnehaha with a solid sweep of the host Redhawks. CR was the #2 seed in the East. This is the Beacons 10th trip to State, but the first since 2002. The whole match hinged on the first set. Concordia rallied for the win. After that the Beacons played with confidence and authority. The only time the Redhawks led after that was at 1-0 in the third set.

The Redhawks started off on the right note with four points with Katelyn Adams scoring two of the points on a block and kill. As quickly as MA led they put CR back in the contest with three straight hitting errors. MA went back in front 10-6 their last four point lead of the day. CR had a five point run starting with a missed MA serve followed by two Redhawk errors. CR led 12-11 when MA took their first time out. CR took a time out with MA up 17-16 after a three point run. Sarah Winter had two kills in the run. MA pushed their lead out to 21-19 after Winter's fifth kill of the set. After that CR closed hard with a 6-1 run. CR had two three point runs, both started on missed MA serves. Naomi Walther wrapped up the first set with a block, her 6th point of the first set.

That finished invigorated CR and took the spirit out of the hosts MA. CR raced to a 10-3 lead with two runs in the first three serves. MA took their first time out at 10-3. Lauren Koepke had three of the 10 points for the Beacons. Three of the Beacon points came on blocks. MA couldn't generate any offense off their serve. CR for the set had 11/12 FBSO. MA took their second time out at 19-10, but it didn't slow down the Beacons as they added two more points. CR increased their earned points from 13 to 18 in set two, while MA dropped two to 10.

MA opened the third set with the first point. Then the proverbial roof caved in. After a tip kill by Walther, Jenny Otte served up 10 straight points. MA took a time out at 7-1, but Otte served up four straight aces after the time out. MA was forced to take their second time out then at 11-1. MA did fight back with a four point run to close to 16-8. Three of the points came on CR errors. CR did take a time out at 16-7. The Beacons added to their totals at 21-10 after a run of three. MA had one last five point surge to close to 21-15. The Beacons closed with a 4-1 run to punch their ticket to state.

you can see the entire Concordia Roseville vs Minnehaha photo gallery at kevinanderson.photostockplus.com

rotation, player, position, aces-blocks-kills--totals
CONCORDIA ROSEVILLE
1. Sarah Frehner, 2009, S 2-0-1-----3
1fr: Abby Warner, 2009, RH 0-0-2-----2
2. Jenny Otte, 2009, OH 5-0-5-----10
3. Amanda Kramer, 2011, L 1-0-0-----1
3fr: Naomi Walther, 2011, OH 0-4-14----18
4. Sarah Tramm, 2009, S 0-0-0-----0
4fr: Lauren Koepke, 2011, RH 0-3.5-1----4.5
5. Mercedes Akinsanya, 2010, OH 2-0-5----7
6. Breanna Schafer, 2009, DS 2-0-1-----3
6fr: Elizabeth Reedstrom, 2010, MH 0-2.5-0-----2.5
totals: 12-10-29-----51 points, 24 points on Minnehaha errors

MINNEHAHA
1. Sarah Lucht, 2009, L 0-0-0----0
1fr: Emilia Kronschnabel, 2010, MH 0-1-3-----4
2. Allison Yaeger, 2009, OH 1-0-0-----1
3. Brigid Kelly, 2012, S 0-0-0------0
3fr: Natalie Welsch, 2013, RH 0-1-3-----4
4. Claire Anderson, 2010, serve 0-0-0-----0
4fr: Katelyn Adams, 2011, MH 0-2-6-----8
5. Sarah Winter, 2011, OH 0-1-7-----8
6. Sara Smith, 2010, S 1-0-0------1
6fr: Annie Wright, 2011, RH 0-0-0-----0
6fr: Anna Pawlenty, 2011, RH 0-0-1-----1
totals: 2-5-20------27 points, 24 points on CR errors

TRENCH PLAYER
Naomi Walther, another middle that controlled the net

BY THE NUMBERS
team, fbso/fbso attempts; fbso %; points, % earned; % allowed
Concordia Roseville 20/31-.645; 75;
Minnehaha 10/31-.323; 51;
Runs 3+: CR 11, Minnehaha 5
Longest string: CR 11, Minnehaha 5
Missed Serves: CR 6, Minnehaha 5
Time Out %: Minnehaha 2/4-.500; CR 1/3-.333

ROTATIONS
CONCORDIA ROSEVILLE
1. Frehner 11-10 .524
2. Otte 21-8 .724
3. Kramer 11-8 .579
4. Tramm 10-10 .500
5. Akinsanya 7-6 .538
6. Schafer 15-9 .625
totals: 75-51 .595

MINNEHAHA
1. Lucht 11-21 .344
2. Yaeger 8-10 .444
3. Kelly 7-9 .438
4. Anderson 11-10 .524
5. Winter 6-14 .300
6. Smith 8-11 .421
totals: 51-75 .405

RACE TO:
Set: 5 10 15 20 25
set 1 M M C M C
set 2 C C C C C
set 3 C C C C C

BIGGEST LEAD
Team 1 2 3
Concordia 2 12 11
Minnehaha 4 0 1

Next up: 2AAA championship

Foley Edges Mora in Marathon Five

#2 posting 10.31.2008
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AA PLAYOFFS
Six sections had their subsection finals yesterday with 12 contests.
There were 7 sweeps, and two five set matches.
There were two top 10 battles last night...both went to the higher placed teams (Jordan over Belle Plaine and Marshall over JCC).
There were two lower seeds topping higher seeds and both were fivers. ---Foley topped Mora in an upset in 5AA North marathon while Concordia Roseville upended Visitation in 4AA East.

SECTION 1
In the West #1 seed Stewartville swept #2 Pine Island with a margin of 29 points. Stewartville is searching for their 19th state trip. From the Rochester Post Bulletin.

In the East #1 seed Caledonia swept #2 Chatfield with a margin of 15 points. From the Rochester Post Bulletin.

SECTION 2
In the East #1 seed Jordan swept #2 Belle Plaine with a margin of 25 points. Jordan's Brittany Chambers had 19 kills. From the Mankato Free Press.

In the West #1 seed LeSueur-Henderson swept #3 Maple River with a margin of 36 points. From the Mankato Free Press.

SECTION 3
In the North #1 seed Yellow Medicine East beat #3 seed Lac Qui Parle Valley in four with a margin of 14 points. Stina Leiseth had 22 kills for YME. From the Marshall Independent and West Central Tribune.

In the South #1 seed Marshall beat #3 seed Jackson County Central in four with a margin of 8 points. This was a battle between two top 10 teams. Defense was the key for the defending AA champs. From the Marshall Independent and Worthington Daily Globe.

SECTION 4
In the East #2 seed Concordia Roseville beat Visitation in five with a margin of 10 points.

In the West #1 seed Minnehaha beat #2 DeLaSalle in four with a margin of 34 points.
No links for either match.

SECTION 5
In the North #2 seed Foley beat #1 Mora in five. Mora held the point advantage with 8. Foley led 2-0. The final fifth set was a marathon with the Falcons winning 26-24.

In the South #1 Delano swept #2 Fridley with a margin of 38 points. No links on this match.

SECTION 6
In the North #1 seed St. Cloud Cathedral swept #2 Sauk Centre with a margin of 39 points. SCC's Anna Zyvoloski had 19 kills. From the St. Cloud Times.

In the South #1 seed Rocori swept #3 New London-Spicer with a margin of 15 points. From the St. Cloud Times and West Central Tribune.

Next up: A Playoffs

Wadena-Deer Creek Rallies Down 2-0

#2 posting 10.29.2008
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AA PLAYOFFS
There were 24 games in AA playoff action last night.
There were 12 sweeps and 4 that went five.
There were five lower seeds beating higher seeds. One #1 seed fell. #2S Wadena-Deer Creek beat #1S Perham in five in section 8AA and did it the hard way trailing 2-0.
No ranked teams fell.

SECTION 2
#3W Maple River beat #2W Blue Earth in four with a margin of 18 points. From the Mankato Free Press.
#1W LeSueur-Henderson beat Sibley East in four with a margin of 46 points.
#1E Jordan (and #1 in the AA poll) swept #4E Holy Family with a margin of 43 points. From the SW Scoreboard.
#2E Belle Plaine swept #6 Montgomery-Lonsdale with a margin of 27 points.

SECTION 3
#3S Jackson County Central swept #2S Worthington with a margin of 12 points. The Trojans beat the Huskies during the season. From the Worthington Daily Globe.
Defending AA Champion #1S Marshall swept #4S Pipestone with a margin of 43 points. From the Marshall Independent and Worthington Daily Globe.
#1N Yellow Medicine East swept #5N Montevideo with a margin of 20 points. From the Marshall Independent.
#3N Lac Qui Parle Valley beat #2N Benson in four with a margin of 11 points. From the West Central Tribune.

SECTION 4
The remaining teams standing in section four are all privates. #1E Visitation went five to beat #4E St. Croix Lutheran. #2E Concordia Roseville beat St. Paul Johnson in five. In the West #1 Minnehaha and #2 DeLaSalle both swept #5 North and #3 Washburn respectively.
Minnehaha is looking for their first state tournament bid ever. In the middle of the StarTribune prep west section.

SECTION 5
In the north #2 Foley swept #3 Zimmerman with a margin of 22 points and #1 Mora outlasted #5 Becker in five with a margin of 6 points. From the St. Cloud Times.
In the South the top two seeds moved on with #1 Delano sweeping #5 Orono and #2 Fridley topping #3 St. Anthony in four.

SECTION 6
#1N St. Cloud Cathedral swept #5N Albany with a margin of 48 points. From the St. Cloud Times.
#2N Sauk Centre swept #3N Melrose with a margin of 10 points.
#3S New London-Spicer beat #2S Litchfield in five with a margin of 12 points. NLS led 2-0. From the West Central Tribune.
#1S Rocori beat #5S Annandale with a margin of 14 points.

SECTION 7
#1S Esko beat #2N Virginia in four with a margin of 18 points.
#1N Hibbing swept #2S Cloquet with a margin of 26 points. From the Duluth News Tribune.

SECTION 8
#1N East Grand Forks beat #2N DGF in four with a margin of 21 points. From the Grand Forks Herald and Fargo Forum.
#2S Wadena-Deer Creek beat #1S Perham in five with a margin of 3 points. Perham led 2-0.

TO COME
The Rochester Post Bulletin looks at Section 1 with the subsection finals Thursday.

Next up: A Playoffs

Mabel-Canton Survives LeRoy-Ostrander

#1 posting 10.26.2008
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HIGH SCHOOL RESULTS
Section 1 in A and AA held contests yesterday.
There were two sweeps and one five set match in 1A.
There were three sweeps and one fiver plus one upset in 1AA.
Both sections will hold their subsection finals on Thursday in Rochester.

AA
Section 1
#1E Caledonia swept #4E Kingsland with a margin of 31 points, and #2E Chatfield beat #3E St. Charles in five with a margin of 4 points. From the Winona Daily News.
Stewartville and Pine Island swept in the west.

A
Section 1
#3W Kenyon-Wanamingo knocked off #2W Hayfield in four with a margin of 19 points. From the Austin Daily Herald.
#1W Bethlehem Academy swept #5W Waterville-Elysian-Morristown with a margin of 28 points. Holly Hafemeyer had 16 points for BA. From the Faribault Daily News.
#1E Wabasha-Kellogg swept #4E Rushford-Peterson with a margin of 15 points. From the Winona Daily News.
#2E Mabel-Canton trailed 2-0 before rallying to beat #3E LeRoy-Ostrander. MC's Kate Horihan had 26 kills. (in the Winona Daily News).

LATE RESULTS
8AA #1N East Grand Forks beat #4N Roseau in four with a margin of 3 points. From the Grand Forks Herald.

Next up: Big 10 results

Most Favorites Move on in AA

#2 posting 10.25.2008
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AA RESULTS
There were three upsets and all involved 5s over 4s.
There were 3 five set matches and 16 sweeps last night

3
#5N Montevideo bumped off #4N Morris in four with a margin of 34 points.

#2N Benson beat #7N Minnewaska with a margin of 22 points. Plus three other results in the West Central Tribune.

#1S Marshall swept #8S St. James with a margin of 53 points.

#2S Worthington swept #7S Luverne with a margin of 46 points.

#3S Jackson County Central swept #6S Fairmont with a margin of 36 points. From the Worthington Daily Globe.

#4S Pipestone swept #5S New Ulm with a margin of 12 points.

6
#5N Albany beat #4N Pierz in five.

#2S New London-Spicer beat #7S Maple Grove with a margin of 24 points. Plus one other result from the West Central Tribune.

#5S Annandale beat #4S Dassel-Cokato in five.

7
No upsets.
Virginia beat Eveleth-Gilbert in four with a margin of 13 points. Plus four other results from the Duluth News-Tribune.

8
Again no upsets.
#1S Perham beat #5S Detroit Lakes in four with a margin of 42 points. From the Detroit Lakes Tribune.

#2S Wadena-Deer Creek beat #3S Staples-Motley in a sweep with a margin of 37 points. Plus four more results from the Brainerd Dispatch. Also in the BD---WDC's Courtney Volkmann is the athlete of the week.

next up Class A results

AA Playoffs: 7 Upsets

#2 posting 10.24.2008
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AA PLAYOFFS
There was a full slate of section contests last night. There were 7 lower seeds beating higher seeds last night. Most involved #5s beating #4s.
The biggest upset came with #6 Montgomery-Lonsdale taking down #3 Watertown-Mayer in section 2 in a sweep.

1. #5W Zumbrota-Mazeppa beat #4W Byron in five. Byron had a 3 point advantage on the night. Plus three more results in the Red Wing Republican Eagle and Rochester Post Bulletin.
#1W Stewartville swept #8W Rochester Lourdes with a margin of 34 points. From the Rochester Post Bulletin.
#2W Pine Island swept #7W Cannon Falls with a margin of 28 points. From the RPB.
#3E St. Charles swept #6E Lake City with a margin of 39 points. Plus one other result from the Winona Daily News.

2. #1 in the state #1 East seed Jordan swept Waseca with a margin of 52 points. From the SW Scoreboard.
#6E Montgomery-Lonsdale swept #3E Watertown-Mayer with a margin of 9 points.
#5W Sibley East upset #4W Norwood-Young America in a sweep with a margin of 15 points.
#2W Blue Earth swept #7W St. Peter with a margin of 26 points. From the Fairmont Sentinel.

4. #5W Minneapolis North bumped off #4W Edison in five with a margin of 6 points. Edison led 2-1.

5. #5N Becker outlasted #4N Rush City in five. RC had a one point advantage for the night. Kelly McCall had 12 kills for the Bulldogs. Plus six more results from the St. Cloud Times.
#5S Orono dropped #4S Mound-Westonka in five. MW had a five point advantage for the night. MW led 2-1. Set four went to 29-27 for Orono.

8. #5S Detroit Lakes topped #4S Breckenridge in four with a margin of 3 points.
#1S Perham swept #8S Fergus Falls with a margin of 32 points. From the Fergus Falls Daily Journal.

#2N DGF beat #7N Crookston in four with a margin of 20 points. From the Fargo Fourm.

TONIGHT
Sections 3, 6 and 7 get underway tonight.

In 3: Marshall faces St. James. From the Marshall Independent.
Worthington is a #2 seed, the highest they have achieved in recent memory. From the Worthington Daily Globe.
Lac Qui Parle Valley had their first winning season in 17 years with a boomerang coach. From the West Central Tribune.

Next up: Class A results

St. Cloud Cathedral Takes West Central Playoff

#2 posting 10.23.2008
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AA PLAYOFFS
7
Most top seeds moved on.
#4N Hermantown beat #5N Greenway in a sweep with a margin of 20 points. Plus 2 other results in the Duluth News Tribune.
Only one contest went more than three sets and it was slight upset---#5S Hinckley-Finlayson beat #4 Moose Lake-Willow River in four with a margin of 15 points.

Hibbing swept Two Harbors with a margin of 48 points. From the Hibbing Tribune.

8
Wadena-Deer Creek is seeded #2 in the south. Could they face #1S Perham in the finals From the Wadena Pioneer Journal.

WEST CENTRAL CHAMPIONHIP
St. Cloud Cathedral swept Benson with a margin of 26 in the battle between north and south champions.

Next up: A Playoffs

Sweep Times in AA

#2 posting 11.4.2007
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AA RESULTS
There were six contests that ended up 3-0 yesterday in AA, the most in any class.
1: Stewartville swept Caledonia. Erin Ness is back for Stewartville. It is the third straight trip for Stewartville.

2: Jordan broomed LeSueur-Henderson. I thought the Mankato paper might have something on this. I was wrong.

3: Marshall trailed 2-1 before rallying to beat Yellow Medicine East. Game five went 17-15. Since the Marshall and West Central papers aren't published on Sunday, I am sure we will be reading about that one on Monday.

4: Visitation beat Minneahaha in four. Nothing in either major metropolitan paper on this contest.

5: Delano had a tight sweep of Becker. Story, or paragraph, is at the end of the Shakopee story in the StarTribune.

6: St. Cloud Cathedral mowed down Maple Lake in three. The undefeated Crusaders are in the big show for the third straight year. From the St. Cloud Times.

7: Hibbing shut out Greenway. It was coach Gail Nucech's 799th win in her career. From the Duluth News Tribune.

8: DGF blanked Fergus Falls. DGF is 30-0. From the Fargo Forum and Fergus Falls Daily Journal. Jenna Green is back from the ankle injury for DGF.
Before the game FF coach Renee Erickson told her team to leave it on the court. also from the FFDJ.

BREAKDOWN
Technically the lowest seed advancing to the state tournament is Marshall as a 2SW seed in section 3 (Pipestone was #1). But Marshall has been in the top 10 all year and there for I do not consider the win over YME an upset. Everyone else was a 1 seed.
games, %sweeps; %fives; %first game winners; %upsets
8, .750; .125; 1.000; .000

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next up: Class A

Marshall's Revenge

#2 posting 11.2.2007
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AA ACTION
2: Jordan swept Montgomery-Lonsdale to win the East sub section. From the Jordan Independent.
In the west half it was LeSueur-Henderson beating Norwood-Young America in four. From the Mankato Free Press.

3: YME won the north half with a five game win over Montevideo. From the Marshall Independent and the West Central Tribune.
Marshall got revenge against Pipestone with a four game win. Pipestone beat Marshall during the regular season. From the Marshall Independent.

4: Visitation and Minnehaha, both #1 seeds in their subsection, moved to the finals with sweeps.

5: I reported on Delano's sweep over Orono last night. Becker beat #1 seed Mora in four. See the story below for the link.

6: St. Cloud Cathedral beat Sauk Centre in four. and Maple Lake beat Rocori in five. From the St. Cloud Times.

TOMORROW
8: Fergus Falls takes on undefeated DGF for the right to go to state. From the Fergus Falls Daily Journal.

BREAKDOWN
# of games; sweep%; 5%; first game win%; upset %
10, .400; .200; .800; .300

NUMBER CRUNCHING
KILLS
Anna Full, Marshall 22 vs Pipestone 3-1

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next up: Class A action