Viking leaders were Morgan Korf (22 digs, 4 aces), Marie Backstrom (12 kills, 2 aces, 5 digs), Anna Roisum (9 kills, 10 digs, 5 assists, 1 ace), Ellie Welch (11 assists, 3 kills, 5 digs, 1 ace), Claudia Gurath (10 digs), Torie Jugovich (4 digs, 1 ace), Ari Hovland (3 digs, 1 ace) and Zayla Arrow (1 kills, 2 digs).

“The Vikings have been struggling with starting strong and executing at the beginning of the game,” said Coach Isaman.  “Unfortunately, we struggled again with this last night and did not execute well to start our first set.  We passed quite well tonight, but gave the Battlers too many unearned points with our hitting errors.  Then libero Morgan Korf got to the serving line and got a huge 8 point run with her very aggressive serving. This run got the Vikings to get into their more aggressive rhythm and we were able to win the first set.  Set 2 the Vikings executed much better with middle hitter Anna Roisum and outside hitter Marie Backstrom putting the ball down with power.  Setter Ellie Welch did a great job getting our hitters the ball where they needed it and Welch also had a big 8 point run herself at the serving line.  The Vikings controlled set 2 with their aggressiveness.  Set 3 was a different story.  The Battlers took their turn of controlling the game and they got their offense going. The Vikings had some hesitation on the offensive end and made too many errors.  We also hesitated a bit on the defensive side and the Battlers took advantage of this hesitation.  Senior Torie Jugovich came off the bench with confidence and threw out a 7 point run on the service line to get the Vikings back on track.  It was not our most aggressive set but the Vikings fought back and won the set 26-24 and the match, 3-0.  Overall, tonight was a great night of volleyball and community celebration! Thank you to everyone to contributed and showed support for the Roisum family.  Your generosity was very appreciated by all!”

Battle Lake stats will be added to the story once they are received.