Katelyn Mazour (7), Emily Troudt (8) and Claire Himmelberg (24) look on as Bailey Ceder (12) digs out the ball during match action with Lawrence-Nelson player Sydney Biltoft (2) in the back court.
Claire Himmelberg (24) awaits the arrival of the ball from Blue Hill as Lawrence-Nelson teammate Sydney Biltoft (2) looks on. The Raiders are headed to sub-district play Monday.
Sydney Biltoft (2) sends the ball back across the net to Blue Hill for Lawrence-Nelson during a recent match at Nelson. The Raiders begin sub-district play Monday.
Katelyn Mazour (7) controls the ball for Lawrence-Nelson during a recent match against Blue Hill at Nelson.
Claire Himmelberg (24) rises up to return the ball to Blue Hill for Lawrence-Nelson during a recent match at Nelson. Sub-district play for the Raiders gets underway Monday.
"A bit of trouble and hardship builds character" so the old saying goes.
But then, how much character do you need?
The 2020 L-N Lady Raiders got struck again by the COVID-19 pandemic. After giving up a number of games earlier in the season, they had to give up playing the Twin Valley Conference tournament which started last weekend.
Earlier in the week they played Blue Hill to an almost stand-still before dropping the game 2-3. L-N also came up on the short end of the score in a home triangular with BDS and High Plains.
The game summaries:
L-N – BLUE HILL: 25-23, 20-25, 23-25, 25-22, 11-15: Small town volleyball at its best . . . except for the L-N fans, the wrong team won. The annual match with neighboring Blue Hill was held in Nelson last week and it was a game worth watching for exciting volleyball.
The 2 – 3 set loss was hard for the Raider fans, but the game was interesting to watch. The summary:
Set No. 1: The opening set appeared to be a Raider victory right from the start. L-N pounded down a lot of kills and BH suffered a number of hitting errors. L-N led 21-10 at one point. The Raiders had a series of hitting errors as well and the set was tied at 23-23 before L-N won their only volley of the set for the 24th point and a BH net ball gave L/N the first set victory.
Set No. 2: Blue Hill had only a few ace serves in this set, but they came a vital points in the set. Unlike the first set, there was only one long volley in this set. There was only a two point difference in the score until late in the set when BH managed a 4-0 scoring run.
Set No. 3: L-N opened the set with a 6-0 scoring run with points coming from several ace serves, an ace block and a Raider kill. BH went on their own seven point scoring run and tied the score at 15-15. In the end of the set the score was tied six time and BH won four of five long volleys to win the set.
Set No. 4: Win, or end the game. Talk about a close set. This set saw: • scored tied 14 times; • score changed hands five times; • no scoring runs longer than three points and that happened only once; • only two ace serves in the game, one by each team. L-N trailed 21-22 before the Raiders came up with four straight kill to ice the win.
Set No. 5: This set was close the whole time until BH managed a four point scoring run very near the end thanks to several Raider hitting errors. Both teams played well at times and both had some errors.
Emma Epley and Emily Miller recorded 20 and 19 kills respectively for the match. Emma and Emily Miller both had four kills.
(Kills, Ace, Digs) Aleah Heikkinen 7, 0 17; Emma Epley 20, 4, 18; Elsa Jorgensen 0, 4, 29; Katelyn Mazour 5, 0, 28; Emily Troudt 0, 1, 2; Avery Mazour 1, 0, 1; Tori Miller 2, 0, 1; Emily Miller 19, 1, 14; Kylie Beard 0, 0, 0.
Blocking: (Solo, assisted) Aleah 1, 3; Emma 1, 1; Katelyn 0, 1; Emily Miller 1, 1.
Ball Handling: Katelyn 82 of 82 with 23 Assists; Emma 49 of 49 with 17 Assists.
Serve Receptions: Elsa 43 of 46; Aleah 13 of 16.
L/N – BRUNING-DAVENPORT – SHICKLEY: 21-25, 25-23, 20-25: The first game of the L/N Triangular Meet last Thursday resulted in a 1 Set to 2 Set loss to BDS. For the season BDS has lost only four sets and the Raiders were one of the four teams to record a set victory over the state leading BDS from class D-1.
Emily Miller recorded double digit Kills with 16; Emily Troudt recorded three Ace Serves to lead in that deparment.
(Kills, Aces, Digs) Aleah Heikkinen 3, 0, 5; Emma Epley 7, 1, 3; Elsa Jorgensen 0, 0, 8; Katelyn Mazour 0, 1, 11; Emily Troudt 0, 3, 11; Avery Mazour 0, 0, 2; Tori Miller 1, 0, 3; Emily Miller 16, 0, 12; Kylie Beard 0, 0, 0; MacKenzie Ostdiek 0, 0, 0.
Blocking: (solo, assist) Aleah Heikkinen 0-1; Emma Epley 0-1; Emily Miller 0-1; Kylie 0-1.
Ball Handling: Katelyn 42 of 43 with 13 Assists; Emma 24 of 25 with 11 Assists.
Serve Receptions: Elsa 26 of 28; Emily Miller 12 of 12; Aleah 10 of 11.
L-N – HIGH PLAINS: 19-25; 13-25: The Raiders faced another Class D-1 school in High Plains in the closing match of the triangular last Thursday. The two set loss came from a number of hitting errors by the Raiders and a scarcity of ace servings.
(Kills, Ace, Digs) Aleah Heikkinen 1, 1, 4; Emma Epley 5, 0, 5; Elsa Jorgensen 0, 0, 10; Katelyn Mazour 1, 0, 7; Avery Mazour 0, 0, 1; Tori Miller 2, 0, 0; Emily Miller 6, 1, 9; Kylie Beard 0, 0, 0; MacKenzie Ostdiek 0, 1, 0.
Blocking (solo, assisted) Aleah 0, 1; Emma 0, 1; Tori 0-1, Emily 0-1.
Ball Handling: Katelyn 33 of 33 with 9 Assists; Emma 27 of 28 with 5 assists.
Serve Reception: Elsa 20 of 22; Aleah 8 of 10; Emily 8 of 9.
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