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Cowgirls Claim Title at Pelican Rapids Volleyball Tournament

By Craig Olson, 09/08/19, 11:45PM CDT

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The Breckenridge Cowgirls ended an exciting week with a first place finish at the Pelican Rapids Volleyball Tournament on Saturday.

 

The tournament started with a competitive match against the good defensive team, Battle Lake.  The Cowgirls finished the first set 25-19, but the second set was a back-and-forth battle with the Cowgirls finishing on top, 25-23. Abby Johnson (10 kills, 4 digs), Carcie Materi (8 set assists, 9 digs), Kaitlin Arnhalt (7 set assists), Riley Lorenz (8 kills), Camryn Kaehler (4 kills, 5 digs), Riley Finkral (10 digs, 2 ace serves), Madelyn Larson (8 digs) and Kayley Ceroll (6 set assists) were the leaders for the Cowgirls.

“Our focus for the tournament was play at our level, every set, and that’s just what we did,” said Breckenridge Head Coach Margaret Wilson.

The Cowgirls swept through Rothsay (25-16, 25-6) and LPA (25-13, 25-8), and took on Hillcrest in their 4th match of the day. Hillcrest put up more a fight for the Cowgirls, but the Cowgirls weren’t to be stopped and took the match from Hillcrest, 25-14 and 28-26.

Leaders against Rothsay were Johnson (6 kills, 6 digs), Ceroll (14 set assists, 3 ace serves) and Kaehler (3 ace serves, 8 kills, 4 digs).  Against LPA the Cowgirls were led by Johnson (7 kills, 2 ace serves), Arnhalt (9 set assists), Victoria Undem (5 kills), Kaehler (3 kills, 5 digs) and Sophie Larson (5 set assists).  In the Hillcrest match, leaders were Materi (6 set assists), Arnhalt (8 set assists, 8 digs), Johnson (3 ace serves, 3 kills, 5 digs), Kaehler (10 kills, 9 digs), Finkral (11 digs, 2 ace serves, 3 kills) and Jude Held (3 blocks).

Pelican was the last match of the day for the Cowgirls.

“We took a 12-2 lead right away in the first set, but a couple errors on our part and the momentum swung to the Vikings and we ended up with just a 2 point lead,” said Wilson.

The Cowgirls were able to get the momentum back as they took the first set 25-19. Momentum followed the Cowgirls into the second set and with solid serving by Abby Johnson (7 ace serves), the Cowgirls took the set and the tournament, finishing 5-0 with a first place medal. Other statistical leaders in the match were Arnhalt (15 set assists, 9 digs), Lorenz (4 kills, 4 block assists), Kaehler (7 kills), Finkral (8 digs, 3 kills, 4 set assists) and Undem (6 kills, 3 block assists).