Baxter volleyball can’t find win column at BCLUW tournament

CONRAD — The Baxter volleyball team faced three teams with at least 21 wins and another Class 2A squad which has faced a tough schedule this season.

And the Bolts came home from the BCLUW tournament without as win as Baxter lost to Dunkerton, Gladbrook-Reinbeck, PCM and West Marshall on Saturday.

The Bolts also lost to a pair of Iowa Star Conference South Division rivals on Thursday. Baxter fell 25-10, 25-7, 25-7 to 1A No. 3 North Tama and lost 25-13, 25-20, 25-18 to GMG.

Before all of that, the Bolts defeated Colo-NESCO 25-16, 25-20, 23-25, 25-8 on Sept. 30.

Baxter also competed in a tournament at BGM on Sept. 27 and came away with a 2-2 day with wins over Collins-Maxwell and Twin Cedars and losses to BGM and Iowa Valley.

In the 21-8, 21-10 loss to Dunkerton, Alyvia Burdess finished with six assists, two kills and three digs, Mallory Bottorff put down five kills, Kamdyn Krampe had four kills and Denver Sulzle and Lillian Grunsted chipped in three kills.

Caydence Sulzle contributed two assists and three digs, Olivia Parrie dished out six assists and Lexi Dart and Kaylyn Krampe registered two kills.

Kylee Pexa led Dunkerton (23-10) with 12 kills and five digs and Daisy Fettketter chipped in seven digs and six aces.

In Baxter’s 21-3, 21-13 loss to 1A No. 7 Gladbrook-Reinbeck (23-13), Denver Sulzle put down four kills, Burdess had three kills and Emileigh Beals and Dart each collected two kills.

Caydence Sulzle finished with eight digs and Danika Flora had three digs.

PCM (21-5) downed Baxter 25-19, 25-12. Kamdyn Krampe had seven kills, Denver Sulzle totaled six kills and three blocks and Bottorff added six kills.

Luci Kucera had three digs, Caydence Sulzle chipped in two digs, Dart put down two kills and Grunsted tallied two blocks. Parrie delivered four assists and Burdess dished out two assists.

Parrie had 17 assists and four digs in the 21-12, 21-12 loss to West Marshall (5-26). Burdess totaled 16 assists and two digs.

Denver Sulzle and Kamdyn Krampe totaled seven kills, Bottorff and Kaylyn Krampe each contributed six kills, Caydence Sulzle had two kills and 16 digs and Grunsted posted two kills. Kaitlyn Engle registered for digs.

Riley Randall had 16 digs and Arya Wertz put down eight kills to lead West Marshall.

In the loss to North Tama (22-11, 7-0 in the conference), Burdess and Parrie each dished out three assists, Caydence Sulzle tallied 11 digs and Kaylyn Krampe totaled two digs.

North Tama got 15 kills and six digs from Kruiz Ewoldt and Addison Hochstetler added six aces and nine digs. The Redhawks served up 15 aces in the win.

Statistics for the conference matchups against GMG (9-18, 5-2) and Colo-NESCO (1-18, 1-6) and from the BGM tournament in late September were not available at press time.

The Bolts scored a 2-1 win over Collins-Maxwell (2-22) and defeated Twin Cedars (10-20) in two sets. BGM (11-8) and Iowa Valley (5-22) downed Baxter in two sets.