Elk Mound netters finish season with regional loss at Prescott
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by Marlys Kruger
Sports Correspondent
PRESCOTT — The Elk Mound volleyball team set two goals at the beginning of the season and ended up falling a little short on both of them.
With one goal being to win the Dunn-St. Croix Conference championship, they came oh-so-close, losing just one match to Colfax, the conference champions. And the second goal was to win at least one match in regional play. That goal was hard to come by as they played a WIAA Division 2 match at Prescott October 19 and lost in three sets by scores of 25-10, 25-18, 25-20.
The Mounders concluded their season with a 17-18 overall record and 6-1 in conference play.
McKenna Diermeier led the Mounders in kills against Prescott with ten and added nine digs while Stella Rhude slammed nine kills. Issie Hollister picked up nine digs and Brooke Emery had five digs and one serving ace, Kate Mohr and Lauren Garnett both added two blocks and Gracie Carlton had one while Tori Blaskowski smacked a pair of ace serves.
“Prescott played very well against us,” co-head coach Ryan Grimm said after the loss.
“Their record was the same as ours and I believe we could play with them and win when we are in our system. Sadly, our girls did not play up to their ability. Prescott did a good job keeping us out of system. We struggled passing, therefore we were unable to get in rhythm with setting and hitting,” he added.
Diermeier concluded her final year in a Mounder uniform with 120 kills in the seven conference games played, 13 assists, 11 ace serves and 40 digs and will take her talents to Upper Iowa University on a four-year scholarship next fall.
Fellow senior Hollister finished her year with 87 digs and 12 aces in the conference matches.
(stats from Wissports.net and were not available for all the tournament matches).