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REJECTED — Elk Mound senior Tessah Tyman (#15) blocked this hit by a Spring Valley player while teammate Gracie Carlton also threw up a block during a volleyball contest in Spring Valley on September 29.
—photo by Shawn DeWitt
by Marlys Kruger
Sports Correspondent
A change in the schedule resulted in the Elk Mound volleyball team playing Spring Valley in home and away matches last week and the Mounders were victorious in both of them in straight sets.
Elk Mound improved to 5-1 with the most recent wins.
At Spring Valley Tuesday, September 29, Elk Mound was dominant, taking the match 25-7, 25-18 and 25-10.
In that match, Morgan Kinblom and Tessah Tyman led the team in aces with five and four respectively. Kinblom also tallied 17 assists. McKenna Diermeier registered a team-high 13 kills and was credited with 20 of the squad’s 49 digs
ONE AND DONE — Senior Susan Marquardt (#14) gets a kill after hitting this shot passed a pair of Spring Valley Cardinal defenders during Dunn-St. Croix volleyball action in Spring Valley last Tuesday, September 29. Elk Mound won in three sets. —photo by Shawn DeWit
It appeared it would be a quick night once again when the Cardinals came to Elk Mound two nights later. The Mounders held a 19-5 advantage in the first set and used a pair of ace serves and a final kill to win 25-7.
After jumping ahead again in set number two 10-2, the Cardinals finally flew out of the nest and tied things up at 13-13. Elk Mound tightened things up for a three-point run and with the score at 17-15 in the Mounders’ favor, they went on a seven-point run to make it 24-15. The Cardinals added a couple of points before Elk Mound finally hit set point for the 25-17 win.
The Cardinals were not ready to concede however, as they pulled out to a 7-4 advantage in the third set, but after leading 9-7, a big kill by the Mounders’ McKenna Diermeier and a serving error by Spring Valley knotted things up at 9-9. Morgan Kinblom scored on a kill for Elk Mound, but the Cardinals found another burst of energy and pulled ahead 15-11 before Diermeier smacked another shot to the floor to break the run. At 15-15, Chloe Simpson put the Mounders up for good on her own kill shot. The score increased to 19-16 for the Mounders and it went to 22-16 on several Cardinal miscues along with another Diermeier kill. At 23-19, Susan Marquardt served up a point and another Cardinal error made it set and match for the Mounders.
Diermeier led the Mounders in kills with nine and aces with six and collected 20 digs. Marquardt and Simpson had five kills each and Kinblom came up with 19 assists.
Elk Mound hosted unbeaten Glenwood City, who swept Durand to improve to 5-0, last evening, October 6 and will travel to Glenwood City on Thursday, October 8. The Lady Mounders are then scheduled for a pair of matches against Durand the following week with a road visit to the Panthers’ lair on Tuesday, October 13 and home on Thursday, October 15.