Panthers second in own invite

Iowa-Grant finished second in its own invitational Saturday in an event featuring the Panthers and Highland among the local teams.

Seneca won the tournament beating Albany, Iowa-Grant, Belleville, and Iowa-Grant again in the championship. 

Iowa-Grant placed second, beating Highland, losing to Seneca, beating Darlington, and losing to Seneca in the championship. 

Scores for IG 

-beat Highland: 25-21, 20-25, 15-12

-lost to Seneca: 18-25, 17-25 

-beat Darlington: 25-16, 25-22

-lost to Seneca in final: 15-25, 25-23, 11-15

Stat leaders for the entire day: 

Serving Leaders:

Elli Moen: 8 aces

Emery Riemenapp and Adi Foley: 5 aces each 

Presley Lehman, Carly Shores, and Laila Ritchie: 3 aces each 

Passing Leaders: 

Quinn Hoeper: 49 digs 

Emery Riemenapp: 29 digs 

Elli Moen and Presley Lehman: 24 digs each 

Setting Leaders: 

Carly Shores: 39 assists 

Rena Pettit: 26 assists 

Presley Lehman: 1 assist 

Hitting Leaders: 

Laila Ritchie: 32 kills 

Adi Foley: 19 kills 

Presley Lehman: 15 kills 

Blocking Leaders: 

Laila Ritchie: 23 block kills 

Carly Shores: 2 block kills 

Highland finished the day 2-2. 

The day started with a meeting with the tourney host and neighboring Highland.

The Cardinals opened with a loss to I-G 21-25, 25-20, 12-15

STATS

Celia Oleson 10 kills 2 blocks 2 aces 8 assists 

Sophie Tarrell 4 kills 1 block 1 aces 8 digs 

Adilyn Esser 3 kills 4 aces 

Sumaryn Halverson 14 assists 1 ace 

Cora Healy Dougherty 10 digs 

“After the first set, we rotated ahead three spots to allow for a different look,”  Cardinal coach Maria Wineski said.  “It helped since we won that set, but didn’t give us enough momentum to carry thru the third set.” 

 The results going forward were:

Won vs Albany 25-20, 25-9

STATS

Sophie Tarrell 8 kills 3 aces 

Adilyn Esser 6 kills  

Celia Oleson 15 assists 2 aces 5 kills 

Sumaryn Halverson 9 assists 1 ace 

Brinleigh Bollant 8 digs 

Won vs Potosi 25-22, 25-10

STATS

Celia Oleson 7 kills 1 block 5 assists 1 ace

Sophie Tarrell 7 kills 3 blocks 

Sumaryn Halverson 8 assists 2 aces 

Brinleigh’s Bollant 6 digs 

Lost to Portage 22-25, 17-25

STATS

Celia Oleson 8 kills 7 assists 2 aces

Sophie Tarrell 5 killls 1 ace

Sumaryn Halverson 14 assists 2 aces 3 kills 

Brinleigh Bollant 11 digs 

It was less than ideal when it came to conditions of play for the Cardinals.

“It was a long, hot day for us,” said Wineski. “We played our first game around 9:30 and then played four games in a row with a 10 minute break after our second match and wrapped our play up a little after 2 p.m. With that kind of schedule, the girls didn’t have a lot of time to rest their legs and relax like most tournaments allow for.”

Wineski was very pleased with her team’s effort.

“My team played hard all day and we learned a lot about the things we need to work on,” Wineski said.  “We were the only team that had that kind of schedule.”