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Mississippi Valley Conference Volleyball Tourn. FinalPosted Tuesday, October 13, 2009, at 8:54 PM
The Mississippi Valley Conference Volleyball Tourn. began Wed. October 14th at Zalma High School.
Seeds for the Tournament are: JV 1. Leopold 2. Meadow Heights 3. Zalma 4. Marquand-Zion Varsity 1. Leopold 2. Zalma 3. Meadow Heights 4. Greenville 5. Oak Ridge 6. Marquand-Zion Note: Leopold and Zalma's varsity pulled a BYE and will not start play until Thursday night. Attention!!! When I got to the tourament tonight, the school officals told me that Marquand-Zion has dropped out of the tournament due to the flu. This will effect the original game times. I got the updated game info from Zalma's coach. Please note the changed game times for Thursday nights action. Wed. Oct. 14th Game 1: Greenville vs. Oak Ridge (Varsity) 5:00 p.m. Tournament action kicked off with Greenville and Oak Ridge varsity takeing the court at Zalma. Senior Lauren Meyer with Oak Ridge was sitting out with an injury. She landed on her ankle/foot wrong in a regular season game at Leopold earlier this week. I hated to see her with yet another injury after being plauged with injurys in the past. Yet there she was, standing and cheering for her team mates as they took the court. We've watched Lauren play sports for Oak Ridge during her school career, always a talented, spririted player, we'd like to wish her the best of luck, heal quick. Greenville, who is a team of tall, athletic built girls, took a early lead in the first set, jumping out to a 6 -2 lead. Tara Porter #9, for Greenville was a strong player tonight. She blocks well and also gets clean kills. Stacey Roberts, a junior for Oak Ridge is a versitile player, dose a good job of keeping the ball in play and returning the ball from the back of the court. She also played smart, placing the ball in open territory on the opponents side of the court. I was also impressed with the play of Oak Ridge's #5 when she was setting the ball. (The program did not list her name.) Also, Emily Ruch, Oak Ridge's #17 did a clean job of blocking, which seems to be her area of expertise. Greenville lead 13-10, when Oak Ridge went on a scoreing spree and tied the game at 13. Action in the first set continued until Greenville won with a score of 25-20 Oak Ridge. Oak Ridge jumped out to an early 3 point lead over Greenville in the second set, mainly due to Greenville haveing difficulty reciveing the ball from Oak Ridge. Oak Ridge burst ahead, 8-1, again due to Greenville's play being out of bounds and poor passing of the ball. Greenville finally got to serve with the score 11-2, but the serve was out of bounds. At this point, Greenville started putting together sharper plays, but had trouble keeping their serves in bounds. Time out is called at with the score of Oak Ridge 13 to Greenvilles 4. The time out motivated Greenville, their play picked up considerably, working their way back to tie the game at 13 points. Greenville took the lead on an impressive kill by Tara Porter, then she followed with a awesome block. GHS took off and never looked back, winning the game on a kill by Tara Porter. (Greenville will now play first seeded Leopold at 7pm. Thursday night.) Game 2: Meadow Heights vs. Marquand-Zion (Varsity) 6:00 p.m. Marquand-Zion forfeits and Meadow Heights advances to play Zalma Thursday night at 6:00pm. Game 3: Meadow Heights vs. Zalma (JV) 7:00 p.m. Meadow Heights took off strong against Zalma's JV in the first game of their meeting tonight. Heather Baremore who plays for Meadow Hieghts was impressive tonight. She plays well at the net. Zalma's Krista Stevens did a good job of keeping the ball in action for the Bulldogs, as did Jenny Ware. Meadow Heights won the first set 25-9. The second set was back and forth, with the score being tied at 3, Zalma holding the lead 10-6, then Meadow Heights worked to tie the game back up at 10 points. Meadow Heights took the lead off a lift call against Zalma, running the score to 22 Meadow Heights 17 Zalma. After a serving run by Krista Stevens for Zalma, the score stood at 24 Meadow Heights 22 Zalma. Meadow Heights won the game on a missed serve by Zalma. Meadow Heights JV will now play Leopold's JV (who moved on due to Marquand-Zion's forfit) Friday night for the championship. Once again, please note the changed times and teams. There is now only 2 games Thursday night. Thurs. Oct. 15th Game 1: Zalma vs. Meadow Heights (Varsity) 6:00 p.m. Host and second seed Zalma took on third seeded Meadow Heights in game one of tonights action. The first set started of evenly, back and forth between the two teams. Zalma started building a lead off of super plays by Lesta Newberry. She had her blocking, hitting and killing warmed up tonight, using all of them to help Zalma cruise to an easy win in the first set 25-11. If memory serves correct, we (Ted Peters and us) beleive Zalma only missed one serve in the first set. (Correct us if we're wrong semocrat08.) Meadow Heights took the court ready for action in the second set. Gina Cureton, for Meadow Heights had quick clean moves, as did Jillian Mills. Erin Bollmann, also with Meadow Heights brought some kill action to this match. Play was tied at the 10 point mark, Meadow Heights had a few net violations, allowing Zalma to move ahead of the Panthers 15-13. Angela Dickenson of Zalma, never fails to amaze me. With quiet, easy moves, she places the ball smart and accurately. Play moved forward, with Zalma holding the lead at 19-14. Meadow Heights started fighting back with good play moves at the net, once again, Erin Bollmann had some key blocks at this point that help Meadow Heights bring their score up to within 1 of Zalma, 22-21. Close point to point action continued, down to the wire, when Zalma came out over Meadow Heights 25-23. Zalma now advances to play for first place Friday night at 7:00pm. Meadow Heights moves to the third place bracket and will play at 5:00pm. Friday night. Game 2: Leopold vs. Greenville(Varsity) 7:00 p.m. Leopold cruised past Greenville in both sets tonight. Leopold's Elizabeth Eftink's serves were a strong point for Leopold tonight. Greenville will now move to the third place bracket and play Meadow Heights Friday night at 5:00pm. Leopold will play Zalma for the championship tommorow night at 7:00. There was to be a JV game between Marquand-Zion and Leopold's JV tonight, but the Tigers have forfieted due to the flu. Leopold's JV advances automaticly to the championship game. The Friday night action at the Mississippi Valley Confrence Volleyball action. Game 1: Varsity third place game 5:00 pm Meadow Heights (3) vs Greenville (4) The first game of tonights action pitted Meadow Heights against Greenville for the third place varsity trophy. Meadow Heights started building a lead early in the first set on serves by #19, LeeAnna Reagan. Competition evened up, with Greenville catching up to Meadow Hieghts at point #7. Greenville took a lead 12-7 using the serve points and ace's of #15, Brooke Haynes. Greenville continues to score on play at the net by Tara Porter, leading over Meadow Hieghts 18-9. Meadow Heights works back at their deficit on blocks and then serve action by #2, Erin Bollmann. Being better organized, Meadow Heights closes up the gap between them and Greenville, bringing the score to within 2, 19-17. Meadow Hieghts scores again, bringing the game to with in one point, and then goes on to tie the game with Greenville at point #19. Point to point action continues threw points 21, 22, and 23. Lady Bear Tara Porter and Lady Panther Erin Bollmann had a blocking battle going on. Play ended when Greenville scored the two final points to win the first set 25-23. In the second set of the battle for third place, Greenville started better organized than in the first set. #2 Meadow Heights, Erin Bollmann started her blocking early in this match, giveing Meadow Heights a lead of 5-2. Meadow Heights continues to build a lead on Greenville, having them down 10-3, when Greenville took a run, tieing the game at 10 points apiece. Jillian Mills, #5 Meadow Heights, had some clean kills. Tara Porter #9 of Greenville was blocking again, keeping the score tied at 12 points. Play continues with Greenville slipping ahead 16-14. A time out was called by Meadow Heights, which I thought would motivate Meadow Heights, but it in fact motivated Greenville, they zoomed ahead in quick action 19-15. Greenville continues it's lead over Meadow Heights 22-17. When the set came to a close, Greenville, who came into the tournament seeded 4th, had managed and upset for the third place trophy, winning over third seeded Meadow Heights, with a final score of Greenville 25 Meadow Heights 20. Game 2: JV Championship Match 6:00 Leopold (1) vs. Meadow Heights (2) Leopold's JV, who made their tournament debut tonight played Meadow Heigths for the JV championship. Meadow Heights ran up an early lead on the JV Wildcats, 7-0. Leopold had trouble recieveing the ball from Meadow Heights. The Lady Wildcats jumped into the action, tieing the score at 7 points. A serving run by Emily Elfrink #4, Leopold help bring up Leopold's score. Point to point action continued threw out the match. Ashley Keim #3, Leopold was accurate tonight with her plays. For Meadow Heights, #10 Heather Baremore was impressive, she served well and kept her head in the game. She also covered the net well. The JV Wildcats won the first set 25-20. Begining play in the second set of the JV championship match once again found Meadow Hiegts holding a lead on Leopold, 7-1. Leopold takes a score run and eases past Meadow Heights, only to be tied up at point #10. Leopold worked ahead of Meadow Heights, first by 4 points, then by 8. Hannah Allen #11, Leopold brings a sweet serve when she comes in the back row for Leopold and tonight was no exception. When the set came to a close, the JV Wildcats had defeated second seeded Meadow Heights 25-20, claiming the JV conference championship. Game 3: Varsity Championship Match Leopold (1) vs. Zalma (2) Leopold and Zalma squared off once agian this season, this makes the third time the teams have met. This time it's for the varsity conference championship. Leopold's roster was a little off, Whitney Lukefahr has some pulled muscle issues, so she was on the bench. Takeing her place as leibro was #2, Kelli Woodfin. I must confess, these are my two farvorite teams and it's hard for me to report on the action when they play each other. I enjoy wathching both teams and when they are up against other teams, cheer unconditionally for both. I was raised around Zalma and live close to Leopold and love high school sports, so when Zalma plays Leopold, my favorite team wins either way. The first set found Leopold beating Zalma 25-19. The play was very good from both sides. The second set was tight action at the start. With the score tied at 4 points, the score basicly stayed tied threw point number 10. Leopold started to build a lead and kept it, finishing out the second set 25-19, claiming the varsity confrecne championship. Zalma ran their plays smooth, Lest Newberry had some good set-up's to get some clean kills. Torie VanGennip, did an exellent job on the back row and she hits the ball over the net sweet from mid court. Trista Clark and Whitney Walker, both sophmores at Zalma, were versitle tonight. Left handed Alisha Hendrix, played well at the net, as did Lori VanGennip and Anglea Dickenson. The team also served well too. Leopold's Lauren Sieler set the ball nicely so Kristen Thele and Abby Landewee had thier kills warmed up, as did Mackezie Beel. Elizabeth Eftink was versitile in Leopold's win, outstanding serving and working the back row well as did Kelli Woodfin. Also playing well in the back row was Tori Vandeven. Shelby Vandeven played well at the net, as did Mallory James. I'm proud of both teams and their play tonight, as I'm sure you can tell by my going on and on. The all Conference team is usally announced at a later date. I don't know why our confrence dose not announce the all confrence team at the tournament final. (Other confrence tournaments do.) It would be nice to get a picture of the all conference team together. Dose anyone who was at the tournament have any suggestions on who you think would make the team? I'd like to see Greenvilles Tara Porter, Oak Ridges Stacey Roberts, Meadow Heights Jillian Mills and Erin Bollmann. From Zalma, Lesta Newberry and Torie VanGennip. From Leopold, Abby Landewee, Kristen Thele, Mackenzie Beel and Lauren Sieler. Those are just my personal picks, any one eles have a personal pick? Comments Showing comments in chronological order [Show most recent comments first] |
Marcia, and her husband Tony, are avid Leopold Wildcat fans. Win, lose or draw, volleyball, baseball, softball, basketball, they're in the stands, cheering for the mighty Blue and White.
Living in southern Bollinger County, they also enjoy watching the Zalma Bulldogs. The only thing that takes them away from local school sports is farming. That, thank heavens, usually starts about the time the school year is ending in the spring, so there is little conflict. They live in the Glennon community, with their dog Jay Jay, and their cat Miss Addie Lee. Hot topics One Last Volleyball Blog(7 ~ 2:11 PM, Dec 17)
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When will the finals be played? Friday or Saturday?
The finals will be played Friday night. The first match that night will be for the varsity third place, at 5:00 pm. The second match will be the JV Championship, at 6:00pm. (There is only 4 JV teams in the tourn.) The final game will be the varsity championship and that time is 7:00 pm.
Hey Marcia, just wanted to let you know that I don't know if there's going to be a JV tournament now. I at least know that our JV isn't playing tonight. Cindy texted me and told me. One of our girls is out with the flu so our JV isn't going to play tonight. Not sure if that means we are just going to forfeit or if the whole JV tournament is going to be canceled.
Great analysis, Marcia. Can't wait to read your next one!! I agree with your assessment about Greenville's Tara Porter. When she gets a good set, she really can hammer that ball and is a good blocker, too. I heard that she is their all-star basketball player at Greenville, too. It was also pretty impressive by Greenville's freshman Mary Jo Atchison who was subbed in during the second set and went back and served at least 15 in a row is what we counted over at the official's table. That's exactly what Greenville needed: a consistent server to help them regain the lead. Their coach was really proud of them and I was proud of the Atchison girl as well.
Great post Marcia! I agree with your picks for All Conference and I too wish they would announce it the final night of the tournament. Like you said, a Picture of all of them together would be nice!! It was a good game, always is when they play each other. Leopold did miss some serves but made up for it with some great hits. Zalma is always scrapey and tough on defense. Lesta Newberry is a very tough hitter! Had some great hits! My only problem with Zalma is some of their high school boys cheering not FOR their team, but AGAINST the other team. YES, I am from Leopold but I think it is VERY admirable that Leopold Spirit Leaders DO NOT cheer against their opponent but rather FOR their own team. To me, that is the meaning of school spirit. Zalmas team seemed to all be good sports, it was just SOME of their boys yelling vulgar remarks to Leopold players that was my only problem! Sorry, just had to mention that! Keep up the great reports!!
seriously people get a clue. MOST CONFERENCE TOURNAMENTS DO NOT HAVE AN ALL TOURNAMENT TEAM. At the end of the year the coaches get together and decide the ALL CONFERENCE TEAM. There are only a few conference tournaments that have an all tournament team. The team that is picked out at the end of the year is not from the tournament.
Also, the tournament does not decide conference champions. It is just the conference tournament. Had Zalma beaten leopold 25-3 25-0 they still wouldn't be conference champs as long as Leopold goes undefeated in regular season conference play. Your record in the tournament does not count towards conference play
Thank you leopold_championship for the info and for straightning that out. The only other conference tournament I'm familar with is the Stoddard County Conference Tournaments and they annouce a confrence tournament team at the end of the tournament. The selected players are recgonized at the tournament, right after the trophys are given out.
Leopold_championship is correct. The All-Conference teams usually aren't announced until well after season is over. I think Marcia was just listing some players who she thinks deserves All-Conference Team honors, correct me if I'm wrong, Marcia. That being said, I'm sure Leopold has won the conference championship. With only one more week until Districts, Leopold has defeated all the teams in their conference: Zalma, Meadow Heights, Greenville, Oak Ridge, and Marquand-Zion, so I'm more than positive than they are the Mississippi Valley Conference Champions. Their record, I think, is 21-2 and they've only lost to Notre Dame and Scott City, and those teams aren't in the conference, so unless they play a team from the conference and lose this week, they'll be conference champions. Not that it matters, but Zalma will be second in conference. We've beaten all teams in the conference except Leopold.
As for the All-Conference Team, I agree with Marcia's picks; however, I'm going to be a bit more generous and award at least two selections from each school. That being said, I think Andrea Becker from Greenville should be on the list, as should Angela Dickinson from Zalma.
Leopold has 3 regular season games left this week, St. Vincent, Puxico and Notre Dame, all non conference games. Angela Dickinson is also an exellent choice for all-conference honors.
Thank you Ener1210 for pointing out fans like that. It really bothers me that I am not able to walk past an opposing school's Pep Club section without having remarks yelled at me. It just blows my mind that schools let their students act like that. I know for a fact that you are preachin the truth about Zalma yelling vulgar remarks about Leopold because they were said to me personally and while I was sitting in the Leopold section I heard a student and a teacher talking and the student called the Leopold section the (unpolitically corrected term) section...and the teacher just laughed. Like I said, it really bothers me that schools let their students act like that.
On the sunnier side of things I thought Leopold played EXTREMELY well Friday night! I can't wait to see my fellow seniors off tonight at their Senior Night against Puxico!!!!