Orioles improve to 15-0 with Bon Homme Tournament Title
- Lennox Independent Staff
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The Lennox High School volleyball team continued their winning ways this past week, defeating Elk Point Jefferson on Tuesday, Sept. 16 and winning the Bon Homme Tournament on Saturday, Sept. 20.
The Lady O’s traveled to Elk Point Jefferson for a DAK XII conference match on Sept. 16. The match started out in the Oriole’s favor with back to back kills from Libby Kranz and Rylee Hedin. Then the O’s started to struggle with serve receive and allowed the Huskies to get into the match.
“The majority of the first set was back and forth scoring, keeping the match tight until EPJ began to pull away,” said head coach Vanessa Gabel.
Lennox was down 16-22 and running out of time to get the set under control. Hedin and Sydney Johnson put up a kill block and Lennox started their comeback. The score finally got tied up at 23-23 and then Lennox finished it out by winning 26-24. Set two was a little easier as the Orioles started much stronger, got the lead and held onto it throughout the set, winning 25-16 after a kill tip by Addison Martz. Set three started out with some back and forth until Lennox started really pulling away and handedly put away the set 25-12, to win 3-0.
Catie Sherard let the offense with 16 set assists and Hedin led the hitters with 12 kills. Three blockers all contributed two blocks each: Mallorie Bittner, Jersie Hostetler and Hedin. Andie Peters led the defense with 18 digs. Both Peters and Kranz had great serve receive numbers for the night, passing 25 and 22 serves respectively. Kranz and Sherard each had two aces from the service line.
On Saturday, Sept. 20 Lennox traveled to Bon Homme for the Cavalier Clash. Lennox was the top seed for the tournament and didn’t disappoint.
The Orioles swept through their pool undefeated, sweeping AC/DC (25, 11, 25-3), Gregory (25-14, 25-12)and Elk Point-Jefferson (25-9, 25-23).
In the first-round of bracket play Lennox was matched up against Corsica-Stickney. Lennox won 25-13 and 25-13. The semi-finals were against Parker/Marion, again Lennox won 2-0 with scores of 25-23 and 25-11.
The finals were the expected meeting of seed one and seed two, Lennox vs. West Central.
The Orioles won set one 25-16, lost set two 21-25 and closed out with set three at 25-12 walking away with a first place finish.
“Andie Peters had a fantastic tournament. She picked up shots from all across the court and did a fantastic job setting our attackers when we were out of system,” said Gabel. “Andie is consistently getting better and better as the season is progressing. Hannah Adney really put up a lot of great sets for us. When the passes got a little crazy, she managed to put up some nice high sets to the pin hitters, giving them great opportunities to put the ball away.”
Combined stats for the whole tourney are as follows:
Libby Kranz with 43 kills, Jersie Hostetler with 30 kills; Andie Peters with 49 digs; Hannah Adney with 73 set assists; Mallorie Bittner with 11 blocks and Hostetler with ten blocks and Adney with nine aces.
With the wins, Lennox improved to 15-0 on the season.
Lennox will be at home on Thursday, Sept. 25 when they take on 9-3 West Central. Game time is set for 7 p.m.
“We’re hoping for a big home crowd,” added Gabel.
Lennox will be home again on Monday, Sept. 29 when they host Tea Area in a 7 p.m. match-up.
Photos by Mary Peters