Elk Mound volleyball sweeps Glenwood City and Mondovi
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The Elk Mound volleyball players had a strong week as they swept the Glenwood City Hilltoppers and Mondovi Buffaloes in three sets a piece to hold on to a share of first place in the Dunn-St. Croix race.
In the opening game of the week, hosted by Elk Mound, the Mounder Ladies stamped down the visiting Hilltoppers in three sets with scores of 25-17, 25-14 and a close third set of 25-20.
The Mounders traveled to Mondovi on Thursday, October 3, and walked out of the Buffaloes’ gym with a second, three-set win for the week.
Elk Mound now sits at 22-11 overall and are tied with the six-time reigning conference champs, the Colfax Vikings, for the Dunn-St. Croix lead at 4-0.
The Mounders will have only one game this week against the Panthers in Durand this Thursday, October 10. Elk Mound will compete this Saturday, October 12 in the Altoona Invite before wrapping up the regular and conference seasons with home matches against Boyceville next Tuesday, October 15 and rival Colfax on Thursday, October 17.
Glenwood City
The Elk Mound volleyball team had a good start to the week as they took down the Glenwood City Hilltoppers in three sets by scores of 25-17, 25-14, and 25-20.
Kortnee Halgren has been the lead setter for the Mounders and proved she has earned the spot as she had 27 assists. She also had five digs for the defense.
The offense was led by senior Maggie Bartig with 11 kills against the Hilltoppers, followed by Sophie Cedarblade with nine and Susan Marquardt with four.
McKenna Diermeier was on par from the service line with three aces for the Mounders and also led the defense with twelve digs.
Hailey Blaskowski and Issie Hollister also performed well on defense with six and five digs respectively, and junior Morgan Kinblom had four digs.
Mondovi
The Mounders headed to Mondovi on Thursday, October 3, and tackled the Buffaloes in three close sets with scores of 25-21. 25-23, and 25-22.
Senior setter, Kortnee Halgren, led the Mounders once again at the net as she put up 25 assists for Elk Mound and lead from the service line with three aces.
Maggie Bartig and Sophie Cedarblade split the offensive hitting with 10 and six kills respectively, Bartig averaged 3.3 kills per set and Cedarblade had a 19 percent kill ratio.
Handling things for the defense was McKenna Diermeier as she finished with 12 digs against the Buffaloes, followed by Hailey Blaskowski with 11 and Kortnee Halgren and Issie Hollister each with 10 apiece.