Raiders, Hawks advance, Tigerhawks bow out of regional volleyball action

Three area high school volleyball teams opened playoff action Tuesday. Two teams play on.

Collins-Maxwell/Baxter and Colfax-Mingo played opening-round matches in the Class 2A Region 5 tournament. CMB’s Raiders rolled past host Madrid 25-19, 25-5, 25-16, while Colfax-Mingo’s Tigerhawks saw their season come to an end at State Center, losing 25-18, 28-26, 25-22 to host West Marshall.

Lynnville-Sully’s Hawks hosted a Class 1A Region 7 opening-round match in Sully. The Hawks turned away HLV of Victor, 25-9-25-16, 25-18. HLV had pushed the Hawks to five sets two weeks ago in conference play.

CMB (10-12) and Lynnville-Sully (13-9) advance into quarterfinal action of their respective divisions on Oct. 28. In Class 2A Region 5, the Raiders play South Hamilton at Jewel. The Hawks travel to Marengo to play 15th-ranked Iowa Valley in Class 1A Region 7 action. Both matches start at 7 p.m.

At Madrid, the Raiders were a force at the service line, going 67-for-74, which was 90.5 percent. Senior Abbey Appelgate had four aces while sophomore Kathleen Baldwin had two aces. Seniors Maddy Poage and Mackenzie Schmitz were perfect in serving the ball — 21-for-21 and 12-for-12, respectively — and each had two aces. Junior Bridge Hurley had one ace.

“The team played very well in all aspects of the game. We came our ready to play tonight, and we had a lot of fun. CMB withstood a strong start by Madrid. Down 14-17, I called a time out to just settle the team down,” said Scott Ranck, CMB head coach.

Ranck said the Raiders close out the set on an 11-2 run, and continued that hot streak into the second set. The Raiders had a 36-7 run over the two sets after Ranck called the timeout.

“Everyone was just on fire during that time, and even the girls who came off the bench really stepped it up and we just kept rolling,” Ranck said. “It was just amazing to see us so dominating for that long. The girls were like ‘Hey, this is awesome.’ Everything just started clicking.”

The Raiders dominated at the net also with 30 kills as a team. Junior Payge Jurgens hammered the ball for 12 kills and Hurley had nine kills as CMB’s attack leaders. Baldwin had 20 set assists. Poage made a solo block at the net. Freshman Brianda Bane and sophomore Mikayla Eslinger combined for a block.

Defensively, Schmitz came up with 14 digs for CMB. Hurley and Baldwin each had 12 sigs. Appelgate made 10 digs.

Colfax-Mingo put up a fight against West Marshall, but came out on the short end of the decision. The Tigerhawks finished at 5-24 for the season. They ended up 1-9 in Heart of Iowa Conference play.

“It was a close match throughout each set.  We had leads of four and five ponts in the first two sets and just couldn’t hang on,” said Michelle Grant, Tigerhawk head coach.

“It was an unfortunate way to end the season. We improved so much over the course of the season and I am very proud of the effort and hard work our student athletes put in this season. We thank our seniors for their leadership this season and look forward to next season’s growth and improvement.”

Against West Marshall, freshman Ries Wilson delivered 11 kills and had eight digs for the Tigerhawks. Senior Allison Teed downed eight kills and had two digs. Sara Lahart, a senior, went 11-for-11 serving with two aces, plus came up with 17 digs.

Senior Olivia Maggard had two set assists and three digs. She also had one ace, going 8-for-9 serving. Colfax-Mingo served at a 84-percent clip, 56-for-67, in the match.

Freshman setter Megan Earles had 19 set assists, one assisted block at the net and made 10 digs. Amy Russell, a sophomore, had 19 digs, one block assist, three kills and two ace serve. Sophomore Dakota Hostetter went 14-for-16 at the service line with one ace and she had four kills. Alivia Haley, another sophomore, had nine digs.

Lynnville-Sully got seven kills and five digs from Brenna Lanser and six kills and five digs from Shelby Davis in the win over HLV. Lysandra James put up three solo blocks and four kills at the net.

Riley Rockwell was credited with 15 set assists for the Hawks. James had 10 digs. Kay Sevcik went 15-for-15 serving.

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