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Friday, December 30, 2011

Streeter boys fall to talented Little Falls squad

Little falls beat Sauk Centre 72-67 in the title game of the Little Falls Holiday Tournament.
SC had a ten point lead at halftime 35-25.
Little falls is now 6-1, they average 85 points a game and had 105 in one of those games.
The Sauk Centre boys are 5-3 and play at LP/GE on Thursday.

Top Scorers:
Nick Adams 23
Patrick Knoblauch 15
Travis Rieland 12
Terrence Ellis 11
Michael Knoblauch 4
Sam Fischer 2

North Stars' cooled off by Sauk Rapids-Rice

In the final game of the Granite City Classic, the Prairie Centre Area North Stars boys' hockey team was cooled off in a 4-2 loss to Sauk Rapids-Rice after winning their previous six outings.

After both teams battled to a 1-1 tie through two periods, the Storm erupted for three goals in the final period to pick up the win. Prairie Centre's six-game winning streak is the longest the program has enjoyed since the merging of the Long Prairie and Sauk Centre/Melrose programs earlier in the 2000s.

Now 6-4, the North Stars next take on Section 6A rival Little Falls (7-6) on Tuesday, Jan. 3 in Little Falls. The Flyers have won four games in a row, including two over Top 20 Class 1A schools.

An update on Fusion boys' swimming and diving, the Sauk Centre/Melrose team placed third at the five-team Brainerd Invitational on Thursday. Team scores were: Brainerd 663, Monticello 558, Sauk Centre/Melrose 382, Perham 314, Bemidji 203.

Read more about all the action this past week in the Jan. 5 issue of the Sauk Centre Herald.

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Video footage from the Albany vs. Sauk Centre girls' game

With Albany leading 56-53...a pretty weak blocking call was made against Sauk Centre in this clip...


Click below for a link to the Sauk Centre Herald's videos page and another clip from the Albany game:
http://saukherald.com/main.asp?SectionID=94&SubSectionID=381&NewsVideoID=50

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Streeter girls win Pierz tourney

The Sauk Centre girls beat St. Cloud Cathedral Wednesday night to claim title honors at the Pierz Healy Holiday Tournament.

Sauk won 53-34 after leading just 22-20 at the half.

Macy Weller and Ashley Gruber were named to the all-tournament team.

More in next week's Herald!

Streeter boys come from behind to win tourney opener

Sauk trailed by 13 at one point, but came back Wednesday to beat Pequot Lakes 62-60 in the opener of their holiday tourney in Little Falls.

Nick Adams scored 21 points and Patrick Knoblauch added 13 to lead the Streeters, who will face Little Falls at 7 p.m. tomorrow.

The win improves Sauk's record to 5-2.

North Stars make it six in a row

The Prairie Centre Area North Stars boys' hockey team won its sixth game in a row after edging Section 6A rival Morris/Benson Area 4-3 at the St. Cloud tournament today.

The North Stars, now 6-3 overall, face Sauk Rapids-Rice tomorrow at 4:15 p.m. in the championship game.

At Pierz, the Mainstreeters girls' basketball team leads St. Cloud Cathedral 27-21 with 12 minutes left in the game. Final score: Sauk Centre 53, Cathedral 34.

The Mainstreeters take a 6-2 record into the new year. They next face Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa (2-6, 0-2 Central MN Conference) on Tuesday, Jan. 3 on the home court in Sauk Centre.

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Prairie Centre Area wins 4-3 in opening around of the St. Cloud Tournament

In a hockey game held earlier today against Northern Lights, the Prairie Centre Area North Stars boys' hockey team won 4-3.

They are in action tomorrow and Thursday for the final two rounds of the tournament.

No word yet on who they play tomorrow.

The Mainstreeter girls' basketball team won against Crosby-Ironton in their opening-round game of the Pierz Healy tournament tonight. They play in the championship at 8 p.m. on Wednesday night. The final score of Sauk Centre's game was 39-27.

Pierz and St. Cloud Cathedral were playing in the other semifinal game tonight. During the second half at one point the Pioneers held a slim 46-41 lead. The Crusaders ended up winning, though, by a 62-50 margin.

Sauk Centre-area sports are in action today

At Pierz, the Mainstreeters girls' basketball team opens up a four-team tournament that continues tomorrow night. They face Crosby-Ironton with a 6 p.m. tip-off. The B- and C-squads play at 8 p.m.

At St. Cloud's MAC, the Prairie Centre Area North Stars boys' hockey team opens up a Holiday Tournament today as well. That event runs through Thursday night. The North Stars' game today began at 11 a.m. against Northern Lights.

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Wrestlers drop three at home quadrangular - Girls' basketball falls to Albany in conference opener

At halftime, the Huskies lead 33-28 over the Mainstreeters. Final: Albany 72, Sauk Centre 68.]

No word on the wrestling team, who hosted a Quad at Melrose.

**Update at around midnight...
Scores from the wrestling quadrangular
Mora 60, Sauk Centre/Melrose 7; Princeton 36, Sauk Centre/Melrose 28; Becker 61, Sauk Centre/Melrose 3.

Two events on tap tonight on the eve of the day before Christmas break

Will Funk in action earlier this year. Photo by Herman Lensing

At 5:00 p.m. tonight, the Sauk Centre/Melrose wrestling team will host a quadrangular in Melrose. Other teams included are Princeton, Mora and Becker.

Later in the evening, the Sauk Centre Mainstreeters girls' basketball team hosts Albany in the West Central Conference North opener. Both teams are expected to contend for the conference championship this season.

Sauk Centre's Liz Ellens drives the lane in the middle of this video clip during the Holdingford win on Dec. 6...

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

It's a good night for local sports teams - Mainstreeter boys' basketball wins shootout vs. Osakis while Prairie Centre wins at Redwood Falls

Final in boys' hockey action: Prairie Centre Area 6, Redwood Valley/BOLD 2.

On the home court tonight, the Sauk Centre Mainstreeters boys' basketball team defeated fellow Section 6AA member Osakis 77-69. It's a nice win that helps the team bounce back after getting beaten soundly at state-ranked Montevideo on Friday night.

At Osakis, the Mainstreeter girls' basketball team won 52-43.

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Monday, December 19, 2011

Elementary wrestling against B-B-E is at 5 p.m. tomorrow...later that night the varsity teams square off

The K-6th grade Sauk Centre/Melrose wrestlers will be wrestling against the K-6th B-B-E wrestlers before the JV match starts on Tuesday night at the high school in Belgrade. The JV wrestling is scheduled to begin at 6:00, and the elementary wrestling will start one hour prior at 5:00.

Friday, December 16, 2011

Mainstreeter girls' basketball returns to winning ways; Sauk/Melrose wrestlers pick up second win of the season

In a non-conference game at Montevideo tonight, the Sauk Centre Mainstreeters girls' basketball team defeated the Thunderhawks 69-60. Their next game is next Tuesday at Osakis. The Silverstreaks are 4-2 overall; tonight they lost to Melrose Area 49-40 in Melrose.

Sauk Centre is 4-1 overall and 0-0 in the West Central North Conference. They begin conference play next Thursday, when they entertain long-time rival Albany at the home gymnasium. Albany is 3-2 overall and lost to #2-ranked Braham tonight 91-47.

No word yet on how the Mainstreeter boys' basketball team fared at Montevideo.

**Update on Saturday...the boys' basketball team lost 75-41 to the Thunderhawks. They were paced by Nick Adams' 11 points. The scoring for Sauk Centre was as follows: Seth Otte 2, Patrick Knoblauch 7, Josh Buschette 1, Nick Adams 11, Dylan Kohorst 2, Terrance Ellis 6, Travis Rieland 10, Sam Fischer 2.

The Mainstreeters played a great first half, trailing only 35-27. They were limited to only 14 points in the second half, though, while Montevideo put up 40. Sauk Centre shot 15-for-44 from the field, while the Thunderhawks went a robust 28-of-42 from the floor and 9-of-17 beyond the arc.

Jena Klaphake and Macy Weller led the Streeter girls' team with 12 points each. Lexi Berscheit hit two three-pointers to help her amass 9 points as the third-leading scorer.

From Herman Lensing's Melrose Dutchmen Sports Blog:
SC/M went 1-2 in the SC/M quadrangular. Scores were:
Holdingford-54 SC/M-25
SC/MN-67 Parkers' Prairie-6
Osakis-46 SC/M-36.

Winning by pin were: Will Funk, Cory Messer, Devon Fischer, Roosevelt Austin, Mitch Wolbeck, Tom Latzka and Arturo Stefanoni.

The link to the Dutchmen sports blog is: http://dutchmensportsblog.blogspot.com

Thanks, Herman!

Tuesday night's Fusion swimming and diving results at Park Rapids meet

Park Rapids Area 98, Sauk Centre-Melrose 88

200 medley relay - John Schwieters, Nathan Welberg, Keenan Pearson, Brent Blommel 2nd 1:55.19.
200 freestyle - Aaron Stalboerger 2:04.38 2nd, Jacob Gerhartz 2:08.3 3rd.
200 IM - Jared Von Wahlde 2nd 2:24.82, J. Schwieters 3rd 2:25.46.
50 freestyle - Brent Blommel 3rd 25.63, Phil Budde 4th 25.94.
1 mtr Diving - P. Budde 2nd 143.1, Nolan Schmidt 5th 77.4
100 butterfly - Keenan Pearson 1st 1:00.62, J. Von Wahlde 3rd 1:05.29.
100 freestyle - A. Stalboerger 2nd 55.27, B. Blommel 3rd 58.07.
500 freestyle - J. Gerhartz 2nd 5:52.01, Ethan Ross 4th 6:13.15.
200 freestyle relay - K. Pearson, Ryan McBrady, Kurt Fritze, Josh Johnson 2nd 1:42.09.
100 backstroke - J. Schwieters 2nd 1:02.85, Tobie Danielson 3rd 1:06.92.
100 breaststroke - K. Pearson 2nd 1:16.35, N. Welberg 3rd 1:16.67.
400 freestyle relay - J. Von Wahlde, B. Blommel, J. Gerhartz, A. Stalboerger 2nd 3:50.56.

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Thursday, December 15, 2011

More scenes from the Sauk vs. B-B-E border battle

Coach Ellens gives instructions to his troops during a second-half timeout.

Travis Rieland pulls up on a baseline three-pointer.

The Mainstreeters had a great showing of fans at B-B-E on Tuesday night.

Wednesday, December 14, 2011

Sauk Centre/Melrose wrestling team earns first dual meet win; North Stars boys' hockey also wins

Sean Colton (#4) drives the puck down the ice with Dan Perry ready to take a pass along the way.




Read all about the action in this week's Dec. 15 issue of the Sauk Centre Herald.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Mainstreeter boys', girls' basketball teams both suffer first losses of the season

Final in girls' action: Alexandria 60, Sauk Centre 44. Against a very good Cardinals team, the Mainstreeters suffered over 20 turnovers and couldn't get any breaks against a trapping half court defense.

Final in boys' action: B-B-E 59, Sauk Centre 50. Against the #1-ranked (Class A) Jaguars, the Mainstreeters hung tough the entire game and had a 14-point second-half deficit cut down to five points with around 5 minutes left.

Action from early in the boys' basketball game at B-B-E...Sam Fischer drops in two points to make it 16-12 in favor of the Jaguars...

A busy night of action is underway for Mainstreeters sports teams

Every varsity team at Sauk Centre is in action tonight.

The lone home contest involves the Sauk Centre/Melrose wrestlers hosting a triangular that started at 5 p.m. at the high school.

The Prairie Centre Area North Stars host Section 6A rival Wadena-Deer Creek in Long Prairie; the Fusion boys' swimmers are in Park Rapids; the girls' basketball team is in Alexandria; and the boys' basketball team faces #1-ranked (Class A) Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa in Brooten.

Saturday, December 10, 2011

As the world turns...West Central Conference drama continues

It ain't over yet...

All the recent changes to the West Central Conference may have the typical sports fan out there thinking that things may settle down for awhile.

Not a bit.

The Western Guard newspaper (Madison's paper) reported recently that Lac qui Parle Valley is strongly considering fleeing the WCC to join the Camden Conference for most sports and the Little Sioux for football.

LQPV has been a member of the West Central Conference since 1990, when the 4 school districts of Marietta/Nassau, Madison, Appleton and Milan merged. They had a fair amount of success in the 1990s when their enrollment was high and they were one of the larger schools in the league.

Currently they are hovering under 900 students K-12...not good. The economies of their small towns are suffering considerably.

As far as the Camden Conference is concerned...LQPV would by far be the biggest school in that league if that move took place. The Camden currently includes schools such as MACCRAY (K-12 is around 700 students), Kerkhoven-Murdock-Sunburg (K-12 is around 550) and Dawson-Boyd (K-12 is around 650). Other schools in that league include Minneota, Canby, Lincoln HI (Ivanhoe), Russel-Tyler-Ruthton and Tracy-Milroy-Balaton. In football those above-mentioned schools with the exception of K-M-S are all in the Little Sioux Conference; all but Tracy-Milroy-Balaton are in Class 1A. (T-M-B is in Class 2A.)

As we learn more on this over the next few weeks and months we'll keep our public up to date!

~RO

Friday, December 9, 2011

Prairie Centre Area earns first win of the season

Against a solid and undefeated Litchfield/Dassel-Cokato team on the Sauk Centre ice, the Prairie Centre Area North Stars boys' hockey team earned its first win of the season by a 4-3 score.

L/D-C (3-1) trailed 4-2 before they scored with roughly 3:00 left in the third period. They launched a few shots in the closing minute but none were successful.

Derek Holm scored the Stars' first goal after they fell behind 2-0. Holm rifled a snapshot from the point that beat the goalie high. Ryan Connor then scored on a nifty shot coming down the right wing boards. Connor cut to the net and scored on a hard wrister that caught the corner of the net.

Connor scored again to give Prairie Center a 3-2 lead and then Holm set up Cody Bartkowicz, who tipped it past the netminder for a 4-2 lead.

L-DC scored late to make it 4-3 but Stars goalie Justin Brever held his ground til the final seconds ticked off for the big win.

North Stars drop 3-1 contest to Detroit Lakes

Detroit Lakes kept its hot streak going with a 3-1 win over Prairie Centre Area on the Long Prairie ice last night. The Lakers improved to 3-2 with the win, which came on the heels of two victories over #18-ranked Fergus Falls and also Northern Lakes. The North Stars fell to 0-3 on the young season.

Prairie Centre Area can be heard on BOB FM in tonight's contest against undefeated Litchfield/Dassel-Cokato (3-0).

Below, Mark and Joyce Knoblauch interview Melrose boys' basketball coach Ryan Duscha after their game at B-B-E last night...
BOB FM will broadcast tonight's hockey match against L/D-C. Kirby Hemmesch will be providing the play-by-play coverage; the contest begins at 7:30 p.m.

The Mainstreeters boys' basketball team hosts Staples-Motley (1-1) tonight, while the girls' basketball team travels to Long Prairie-Grey Eagle (1-1). The wrestling team competes at the Willmar Tournament.

Tomorrow (Saturday), the Sauk Centre-Melrose Area Fusion boys' swimming and diving team begins their 2011-12 season with a meet at St. Cloud Apollo.

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Sauk Centre Pep Band livens up atmosphere last night


And an action clip, with Berscheit draining a three-pointer in the second half of their game against Holdingford on Dec. 6...

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Sauk Centre girls' basketball easily handles Holdingford; Boys' squad wins big comeback at Holdingford

The Mainstreeters girls' basketball team led 52-24 with under 5:00 to go in the game against visiting Holdingford tonight. The Huskers are in the same sub-section as Sauk Centre in basketball.

The Sauk Centre boys’ basketball team made it two in a row with a nice comeback win tonight over Holdingford. After trailing 42-29 at the half, the Streeters outscored the Huskers 33-10 in the second half for a 62-52 victory. Pat Knoblauch led the team for the second straight game with 19 points. Travis Rieland scored 18 and Nick Adams had his second straight double-double with 14 points and 10 rebounds.
For more check out this week’s Sauk Herald, and be sure to support the Streeter boys this Friday in a section 6AA match-up against a very good Staples-Motley team.

Update on the girls' squad...Twelve different players scored in Sauk’s 56-30 win over Holdingford tonight in girls’ hoops. The Streeters led 38-11 at the half and never looked back. Macy Weller led the team with 12 points. Sauk Centre, which is ranked #10 in Class 2A in the latest coaches' poll, will take on Long Prairie-Grey Eagle this Friday in Long Prairie to try and improve to 3-0 on the season.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

Boys hoop squad dominates in opener

Patrick Knoblauch looks to stop and pop during Friday's action. Knoblauch finished with 24 points seven assists and five rebounds.
The Mainstreeters had quite the offensive output in their first game of the season Friday, beating Wadena-Deer Creek 85-57.

Patrick Knoblauch scored 24 points and Travis Rieland added 19 to lift Sauk to the win.

The Streeters scored 50 points in the first half and led 50-31 heading into the locker room. Both Rieland and Knoblauch got hot from the outside, making some key three-pointers that helped give Sauk the commanding lead.

Junior center Nick Adams also posted a double-double, notching 10 points and 11 rebounds.

The Streeters will take their show on the road Tuesday against Holdingford.

Luke Baum watches his 3-pointer fall on Friday.



Seth Otte put in some quality minutes in his first year of varsity action.

Travis Rieland finished with a career-high 19 points t help lead the Streeters to the win.

Friday, December 2, 2011

North Stars rally falls short

Robby Polipnick and Preston Pung do their best to protect the middle of the ice for goalie Justin Brever in Friday's action.

Tyler Schultz gets an early break on a face off in the North Stars' zone.
The Prairie Centre North Star hockey team had several scoring chances throughout Friday night's game against their rival neighbor Alexandria, but fell short 3-2.

The Stars' Nate Mettenburg scored his first tally of the year as the teams skated to a 1-1 tie after two periods. Prairie Centre outshot Alex 22-14 through the first two frames.



But Alexandria scored two quick goals in the third and it appeared the Stars were running out of gas. But with 1:38 left senior defenseman Derek Holm rifled home a shot from the half boards - a tough angled shot that somehow found the back of the net. The Stars had already pulled goalie Justin Brever and kept him off the ice for a chance to tie. They had a few scrums around the net in the final minute but couldn't get off any point blank quality shots.

It was a hard-fought game and got a little chippy at the end. The referees directed the Alexandria players to exit the ice first without shaking hands. There seemed to be some confusion from the coaching staffs on why the kids didn't shake hands, but the coaches did exchange handshakes in what turned out to be an entertaining game between crosstown foes.

Mainstreeter boys' basketball drubs Wadena-Deer Creek in season opener

The Sauk Centre Mainstreeters boys' basketball team won big over visiting Wadena-Deer Creek tonight in both teams' season opener. Final score: Sauk Centre 85, Wadena-Deer Creek 57. The Mainstreeters were led by Patrick Knoblauch's 24 points, seven assists and five rebounds.

Their next action is at Holdingford next Tuesday night.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Action from tonight's Prairie Centre Area boys' hockey season opener - Plus an update on the girls' basketball season opener

Prairie Centre Area boys' hockey action at the Sauk Centre Civic Arena tonight in the season opener against River Lakes. Footage shown from the second period.

When I left the Civic Arena at the end of the second period, River Lakes held a 2-1 lead. Both teams punched in goals while I was watching over the majority of the second period. It was an evenly-played match from what I saw. Hopefully the North Stars pulled out the win!

At the high school gymnasium, the Sauk Centre Mainstreeters girls' basketball team won their season opener 44-27 over St. Cloud Cathedral. They will sit on a 1-0 record over the next four days of practice before another home game next Tuesday, Dec. 6 against sub-section rival Holdingford.

The Mainstreeters jumped out to a 13-0 lead tonight against the Crusaders while shutting out the visitors over the game's first 8 minutes of play. Cathedral made a run to make it 13-9, but that was as close as they'd get as the Mainstreeters led 22-10 at the break.

Sauk Centre continued to build on the halftime lead and was able to overcome poor 11-for-21 free throw shooting. The Crusader helped the cause for the Maroon by going a dismal 9-of-29 from the charity stripe.

Macy Weller, a junior post, led all scorers with 18 points.

Look for more in this week's Dec. 1 issue of the Sauk Centre Herald!

Mainstreeter girls lead big in the 2nd half, North Stars trail 2-1 heading into third period

The Mainstreeters girls' basketball team leads 30-13 in the second half of tonight's home contest against St. Cloud Cathedral.

On the other side of Sauk Centre at the Civic Arena, Prairie Lakes Area trails 2-1 after two periods are complete.

Check back later tonight for results!

An exciting addition to the Sauk Centre school campus (video below)

Mainstreeter girls' basketball, Prairie Centre boys' hockey seasons kick off tonight

The Mainstreeters girls' basketball team opens the 2011-12 season tonight with a home game against former conference rival St. Cloud Cathedral. The B-squad and C-squad games begin at 6 p.m., with the varsity tip-off to follow at 7:30 p.m. at the high school gymnasium.

At the Sauk Centre Civic Arena, the Prairie Centre Area North Stars boys' hockey team begins their new season with a contest against River Lakes, a conglomerate including Paynesville Area, Albany, Rocori and New London-Spicer schools. The puck drops at 7 p.m.

Saturday, November 12, 2011

Streeter swimmers compete at sections

Tia Marthaler in the 100 breastroke.

Danielle Banal in the 100 backstroke.

Senior Jenna Tullis in the 500 freestyle.
Julie Bushard competes in the 200 freestyle relay. PHOTOS BY RANDY OLSON

Despite a valiant effort and plenty of close calls, the Sauk Centre girls' swimming and diving team will not be sending anybody on to the state meet.
The Mainstreeters swam well at the section meet Friday and Saturday in Morris, but couldn’t muster any qualifiers in what has become a very tough section. Sartell-St. Stephen’s Marisa Wood and Ellen Bloom dominated the meet in several individual categories.
Sauk’s best chance to get to state was in relays. The 400-meter freestyle relay and the 200 freestyle relay both fared well, but fell just short. The 400-relay team was disqualified in the finals. Still, even their preliminary time wouldn’t have been good enough to get them to state. The team of Sarah Nelson, Katie Schulte, Jenna Tullis and Tiana Molitor finished third in prelims with a time of 3:51.42, more than five seconds ahead of their seed time.
The 200 freestyle relay squad of Nelson, Julie Bushard, Tullis and Molitor also had a great showing, finishing fourth in the finals with a time of 1:44.50, more than five seconds ahead of their seed time.
That was the case for many Sauk swimmers, who earned improved times in the section meet.
Other top finishers in individual categories were Molitor and Tullis. Each posted a fifth place finish. Tullis, a senior who capped off a great career, was fifth in the 200 freestyle with a time of 2:02.64, more than six seconds ahead of her seed time.
Molitor was fifth in the 100 freestyle with a time of 55.64. Her preliminary time was even better at 54.84, which was ahead of her seed time of 56.00.
Molitor also finished seventh in the 50 freestyle in 25.22. Sarah Nelson was ninth in that race, capping off an impressive meet for both sophomores, who look to be great up-and-comers for the Sauk program. In addition to her ninth place mark in the 50 freestyle, Nelson was also seventh in the 100 butterfly in 1:05.46, more than two seconds ahead of her season best seed time.
Senior Katie Schulte also turned in a good meet, finishing 9th in the 500 freestyle in 5:46.08, a full eight seconds ahead of her seed time. Schulte was also 14th in the 200 freestyle in 2:11.16, two-plus seconds ahead of her season best.
Also placing for the Streeters were senior Tia Marthaler(9th, 100 breaststroke, 1:15.95), Shaylynn Wichryk (19th, diving, 93.35), Danielle Banal (15th, 100 butterfly, 1:10.67; 14th, 100 backstroke 1:08.15), and the 200 medley relay team of Kendyl Tullis, Marthaler, Banal and Bushard, who finished 9th in 2:03.64.
Despite not getting anyone through the tough section, the Sauk girls had an outstanding season, and despite losing some quality seniors such as Tullis, Schulte and Marthaler, will be a forced to be reckoned with in the next couple years with a plethora of quality young swimmers waiting in the wings.

Check out the summary and photos from swimming and diving at Section 6A last night

Click to read the article:
http://saukherald.com/main.asp?SectionID=8&SubSectionID=358&ArticleID=13490

Mainstreeters volleyball jumps all over Esko in game one

Sauk Centre jumped ahead 6-0 right away and now leads 11-2 after Macy Weller pounded down a kill in game one.

Game two...
After winning game one 25-9, the Mainstreeters again jumped out to a big lead in game two and led 8-1 in the early stages. As of this update at 11:26 a.m., the blog counter hit 35,000 on the nose!
The Mainstreeters earned a side out and it's 13-5.
Esko then scored three straight to make it 13-8.
An Esko hit out of bounds put the Mainstreeters up 16-9.
Sauk Centre put the pedal down and ended up on a 4-0 run to lead 19-9; Esko called their final timeout.
(live blogging now)
Esko found new life and cut the cap to a 21-15 score.
A hit out of bounds by Esko 22-15
A hitting error by Sauk 22-16
Krista ace attack! 23-16
Jordan Gamradt serves...but Esko returns it for a kill 23-17
Esko kill 23-18...timeout Sauk Centre, Coach Klaphake's first of game two
Sauk hits out of bounds to the left 23-19
Sauk ace block 24-19 to end a 10-4 run by Esko
Ashley Kollman serves...but after two returns Esko knocks down an ace tip 24-20
Game point! Krista kill off of a block 25-20

Game three...
We've got a barn-burner going in game three. After it was tied 3-3, the Mainstreeters pulled ahead 6-3 only to see Esko tie it again at 8-8.
Esko then went ahead 10-8 after the Eskimos earned a kill off the block.
Esko hits long after going up 11-8 and now it's 11-10
Krista block and it's tied 11-11
Krista right side kill 12-11
Sauk hit out of bounds 12-12
Esko kill into a block 12-13
Esko ace serve 12-14
Esko kill in the middle 12-15...timeout by Coach Klaphake
Sauk scores three straight, the third point on an ace block 15-15 tie
Esko kill 15-16
Krista kill in the middle 16-16 tie
Esko hit into the net 17-16 lead and timeout Esko
Macy kill glances off an Esko bump 18-16
Esko net violation 19-16
Macy kill off the block 20-16!...put the hammer down!
Sauk serve out of bounds 20-17
Esko kill 20-18
Esko lift call 21-18
Sauk scores again 22-18 and Esko burns the final timeout
Esko kill 22-19
Macy kill off the block 23-19
Esko kill 23-20
Sauk wins 25-21!
Fifth place is a truly spectacular showing for this Sauk Centre volleyball team that finishes 30-5 overall. Enough said.

Friday, November 11, 2011

Here we go again, game five begins...

Game five begins at 20:33...what a crazy roller-coaster!
Maple Lake block 0-1
Maple Lake block 0-2
Sauk error 0-3
Maple Lake hit out of bounds 1-3
Jena serves...Macy block! 2-3
Sauk net violation 2-4
Maple Lake kill by Rachel 2-5 not good
Macy kill! 3-5
Liz serves...Macy kill! multiple returns by both teams, Krista had an incredible back row save...4-5
Macy kill again! Irish bump glances out of bounds, Jena with a perfect set 5-5 and Coach Kiebel calls a timeout at 20:37
Ahhh...Sauk serves long 5-6
Maple Lake's fronts collide, 6-6
Macy serves...Irish kill with no block 6-7
Ashley K splits the back row defense, kill! 7-7 tie
Krista kill! Sauk Centre pulls ahead 8-7****
Maple Lake kill, Sauk bumps out of bounds 8-8 tie
Another Irish kill, Sauk bump it out...8-9 and Coach Klaphake fires a timeout at 20:41 hours
Maple Lake block goes out, Krista kill! 9-9 tie
Ashley K serves...Sauk hits long by inches...9-10
Krista in the clutch! 10-10 tie and Macy comes to the front...
Sauk in the net, 10-11
Maple Lake lift call! 11-11 tie...cliffhanger again
Jena serves...Sauk in the net with a bad pass 11-12
Maple Lake scores...not good! 11-13 and a Sauk Centre timeout (20:45)
Irish serve into the net! 12-13
Liz serves...Macy kill!!!! YES! 13-13 tie
TIME OUT IRISH...
Irish kill by Rachel 14-14 tie...OH my.
MACY ACE BLOCK! 15-14
Maple Lake is blocked again! 16-14...what a most incredible win!

Up next: an 11 a.m. match on Saturday against Esko in the consolation championship...GO STREETERS! Bring home some hardware!

Be sure to catch post-match notes at http://www.saukherald.com later tonight and in the morning too.

Game four...finish them off, Mainstreeters!

Game four begins at 20:08 hours...
Let's go Mainstreeters!
Macy ace block! 1-0
Jena ace block! 2-0
Kill #17 of the night for Macy...3-0
Irish hit into the net 4-0!
Sauk hitting error 4-1
Irish kill 4-2
Irish error 5-2
Irish hit past the baseline! 6-2
Jena ace serve! 7-2
Macy kill with a cross court attack 8-2
Sauk hitting error 8-3
Irish ace serve 8-4
Irish ace serve again 8-5
Irish ace serve again 8-6
Irish scores 8-7 for a much-needed side out
Irish serve out of bounds! 9-7
Liz serves...Ashley Kollman kill! 10-7
Irish error with an Ashley K kill 11-7
Irish kill by Shelby Rachel through a block 11-8
Irish serves long 12-8
Irish kill 12-9
Irish kill by Knott 12-10
Macy kill! 13-10
Irish kill by Rachel on Decker's short set 13-11
Irish service error 14-11
Sauk line error (net violation) 14-12
Sauk bump out of bounds 14-13
Irish kill by Puncochar to tie it 14-14 it's gut-check time for Sauk, gotta shut them down and do this in four!
Krista finds an opening for a kill 15-14 clock reads 20:18
Sauk jump serve into the net 15-15 tie
Sauk scores, Irish bump out of bounds 16-15
Sauk scores, Irish hitting error 17-15
Sauk hit out of bounds 17-16
Sauk bad block, Irish score 17-17 tie
Irish score with an ace attack 17-18, they take the lead; Coach Klaphake calls a timeout at 20:21 hours
Irish ace serve 17-19
Irish hits out of bounds, that helps! 18-19
Liz serves...both teams return the ball five+ times, then Irish hit out of bounds, 19-19 tie!
Maple Lake kill, 19-20
Maple Lake kill by Rachel, 19-21 and Coach Klaphake calls his 2nd timeout at 20:24 hours
Macy delivers! Ace attack! 20-21
Macy serves...multiple returns, Krista kill! 21-21 tie
Maple Lake hits out of bounds on a clean hit 22-21...Coach Kiebel calls a timeout at 20:27 hours
Sauk hit into the net 22-22 tie...we've got a cliffhanger on our hands in this game
Krista in the clutch! Ace attack! 23-22 lead
Maple Lake kill 23-23 tie
Irish Puncochar kill 23-24 as they drive it to the back row, Sauk bumps it but the pass goes to the floor...crazy, just crazy
Irish Knott kill 23-25 final with the clock reading 20:29 hours

Time to dig deep Mainstreeters, you've got guts and heart on your side!

Game three...gotta win this one!

It's 19:45...game one begins with Sauk Centre receiving the first serve
Macy ace block! 1-0
Kendra kill! 2-0
Ashley Gruber block! 3-0 let's go!
Sauk service error 3-1
Irish missed serve! 4-1
Sauk hitting error 4-2
Macy buries it 5-2 she has 14 kills
Macy goes back to serve...Maple Lake hit out of bounds! 6-2
Maple Lake lift call (again) 7-2 and Coach Kiebel burns his first timeout of game three at 19:48 hours
Krista kill on a great set near the net by Jena 8-2
Maple Lake hit out of bounds 9-2
Macy ace serve! 10-2
Krista was blocked 10-3 the rally stops at an 8-0 run
Ashley Gruber kill 11-3
Maple Lake's Knott kill through a block 11-4
Irish serve into the net! 12-4
Sauk lift call 12-5
Irish kill 12-6
Kendra buries a jump shot attack 13-6 let's roll!
Irish can't get it over the net, error 14-6
Sauk scores 15-6
Irish score 15-7
Macy buries a kill in the back row 16-7
Irish error 17-7! Timeout Maple Lake at 19:55 hours
Maple Lake kill 17-8
Ashley Kollman kill! 18-8
Maple Lake kill 18-9
Maple Lake scores 18-10
Krista puts some power on it for a kill 19-10
Maple Lake kill by Knott 19-11
Ashley Kollman drives another attack off a block for a kill 20-11
Ashley K goes back to serve...Irish get blocked! 21-11
Irish kill by Knott 21-12
Sauk scores 22-12
Irish score 22-13
Macy block after a long volley with 6+ returns 23-13
Jena serves...but Sauk hit out of bounds 23-14
Maple Lake block 23-15
Sauk blocking error 23-16
Irish score 23-17 and Coach Klaphake fires off a timeout at 20:02 hours
Irish Hudek kill 23-18
Multiple vollies go by, back and forth...and Macy buries it after several attacks to bring game point 24-18
Liz comes in to serve...Liz Ellens ace serve! 25-18

Way to go Streeters! Lots of perseverance and heart out there, especially without one of your senior leaders on the floor

Game two!

Game two starts at 19:25 hours...
Krista ace serve! 1-0
Sauk serving error 1-1
Macy kill 2-1, that's her 8th kill in this match so far
Irish kill 2-2 tie
Maple Lake serve out of bounds 3-2
Irish kill through the block 3-3
Irish kill off the block again 3-4
Macy drives an attack through a double block off of Jena's back set 4-4 tie
Irish kill by middle hitter Sami Knott 4-5
Irish ace serve 4-6, Jordan Gamradt comes in at libero
Knott kill again in the middle 4-7, Irish score a 3-0 run
Krista kill with Jena's short set for a side out and it's 5-7
Irish kill again 5-8
Sauk hit out of bounds 5-9, Irish gets the first 4-point lead of the night
Krista drives down a kill around a double block for a side out and it's 6-9
Irish kill by outside hitter Puncochar 6-10
Irish kill by Puncochar again 6-11
Sauk hit out of bounds 6-12 and Coach Klaphake calls a timeout at 19:33 hours.
Krista kill out of the timeout 7-12
Maple Lake Puncochar kill 7-13
Macy kill! 8-13
Irish kill 8-14 Sauk needs to rally!
Macy kill 9-14 as she takes advantage of a slow-moving block
Irish kill by Hudek 9-15
Irish ace serve 9-16
Macy kill 10-16 we need more of that! Let's do this in three!
Maple Lake lift call 11-16
Irish kill 11-17 this one is mirroring the image of game one but in reverse
Irish kill 11-18
Sauk lift with a Knott block 11-19 and at 19:38 hours Coach Klapkake calls his second and final timeout of game two
Sauk hit out of bounds 11-20
Irish kill by Knott through a double block 11-21
Sauk hit out of bounds 11-22 ouch
Sauk miscommunication 11-23
Maple Lake bad set and a hitting error 12-23 time to rally and get some momentum back!
Irish kill 12-24
Irish hit out of bounds that helps 13-24
Ashley Kollman serving...Irish can't return it 14-24
Sauk hit out of bounds to give Maple Lake the win 14-25 final score


This one could be another barn burner!

Game one begins against Maple Lake

Game one begins at 19:06 hours...
Macy kill! 1-0
Irish kill 1-1
Irish ace serve 1-2
Macy kill off the block! 2-2 tie
Kendra Zenzen ace serve 3-2 lead
Sauk serve into the net 3-3 tie
Sauk Centre ace block 4-3 lead
Irish kill 4-4 tie
Krista kill off the block 5-4 lead
Maple Lake kill 5-5 tie
Maple Lake takes the lead with a kill 5-6
Krista again for a kill, this one goes to the back corner 6-6 tie
Maple Lake kill off a block 6-7
Irish serving error into the net 7-7 tie
Irish hit out of bounds 8-7 lead
Irish kill 8-8 tie
Macy kill! Two bumps glance out of bounds 9-8 lead
Sauk block 10-8
Macy kill 11-8 lead
Sauk block again! 12-8 lead

(*missed some points, had to switch which vehicle I'm using to hear it on BOB FM)

Macy kill and they lead 14-9
Sauk serve into the net 14-10
Great back set by Jena and a kill for Macy 15-10 lead
Macy ace serve! 16-10
Irish 4-year setter lifts the ball 17-10
Macy drops another serve to the floor! She fakes out the defense 18-10
Ashley Gruber slices a block and it's 19-10...Maple Lake calls their second timeout of the opening game.
Sauk hit out of bounds to stop the rally 19-11
Sauk hitting error (lift) 19-12
Maple Lake hit out of bounds 20-12
Liz Ellens serves...but the Irish earn a kill and it's 20-13
Maple Lake serves out of bounds and it's 21-13
Another lift call on Maple Lake's 4-year setter 22-13
Ashley Kollman ace serve! the ball hits the top of the net and rolls over so it's 23-13
Sauk hit out of bounds 23-14
Jena drills the Irish with a soft-touch tip kill GAME POINT! 24-14
Macy ends the game with a kill! the final score 25-14


**Watch out, though. Maple Lake trailed 17-6 in the opening game of their conference match up with Belgrade-Brooten-Elrosa on Sept. 29. They ended up coming back to lose 25-23 in that game one. Ultimately they pushed the Jaguars to five full games before losing to B-B-E 15-13 in game five.

Scenes from the volleyball team's send-off on Thursday morning



Fun stats: Macy Weller recorded 409 kills in the regular season this year. Also, this is Maple Lake's first ever appearance in the state volleyball tournament.

Mainstreeters girls' swimming and diving gears up for Section 6A meet

Action begins at 5 p.m. today at the University of Minnesota-Morris. The top 16 finishers in each event will advance to the second round of Section 6A.

The second day of the meet begins in Morris at 11 a.m. (diving finals) and 3 p.m. (swimming finals) on Saturday, Nov. 12.

Check back tonight for more on the Mainstreeters swimming and diving team, including comments from Coach Schreiner on how they fared on the first day of action.

Thursday, November 10, 2011

SomePhotosfromThursday'saction:
Krista Primus had 8 kills and 12 digs for the Streeters.

Kendra Zenzen had 6 kills and 16 digs.

The Streeters celebrate a point in Thursday's action.

Brianna VonWahlde bumps one up for her teammates.

Lexie Berscheit makes a great effort to dig one up. Berscheit would later have to leave the match due to an injury.

Game five begins...yes, a five-game match takes place for the third time in the last four outings for Sauk Centre's volleyball team

Game five is set to begin at 21:16 hours...Macy had 2 kills in game four.

Here we go folks, game five...
Chambers hitting error! 1-0 lead for Sauk Centre!
Jena serves...but Chambers earns a kill on the outside 1-1
Chambers slices a block for a kill 1-2
Ashley Gruber ace block on Chambers! 2-2 tie
Liz serves...Chambers kill to the back row 2-3
Jordan ace serve, ball rolls over the net, 2-4 deficit
Chambers again 2-5 and at 21:20 hours Coach Klaphake calls a timeout
Jordan net violation! 3-5
Macy serves...Chambers buries it 3-6
Chambers ace serve 3-7
Macy kill! 4-7
Jordan Gamradt serves...Jordan scores on Sauk tip out of bounds 4-8
Jordan hit out of bounds! 5-8
Ashley K serves...Jordan block error and Jena kill 6-8!
Each team pounds it down three times on the other and then Jordan scores, 6-9
Jordan kill 6-10
Sauk ball handling error 6-11 and the final timeout by Coach Klaphake is called at 21:26 hours. This match is in its 126th minute of the night!
Jordan hit out of bounds! 7-11
Krista serves...Jordan misses again, hits long! 8-11
Jordan misses again! Error! 9-11 Timeout called by Jordan at 21:28 hours with Chambers in the back row
Jordan kill on the left side 9-12
Macy and Ashley G. team up for a block! and it's 10-12
Jena serves...Macy blocks Chambers, it is denied! 11-12!
Jordan kill 11-13 deficit
Sauk can't get it across 11-14 deficit at 21:31 hours
Chambers is stuffed by Macy/Ashley G. and it's 12-14
Liz serves...Jordan gets the final point on a kill by Chambers to end it. 12-15 finish; this match took 2 hours and 13 minutes to finish.

That is about as tough as it gets; the Mainstreeters left everything they had on the court. You can't ask for more. Still, it is without a doubt an incredibly tough loss to swallow.

Game four begins...

It's 20:49 hours with game four beginning.
Macy had 4 kills in the third game after piling up 18 kills in games one and two

Game four begins at 20:49...
Macy kill 1-0 lead!
Jordan hit out of bounds 2-0
Jordan biffs it! Nobody called a return bump and it's 3-0
Jordan scores with a kill by Chambers 3-1
Ashley Gruber gets a kill shot around Chambers down the right sideline for a 4-1 lead!
Sauk tip out of bounds 4-2
Sauk hit into the net 4-3
Macy was blocked by the 6'2" middle Courtney Smith 4-4 tie
Macy is blocked again, same story, 4-5 and Jordan's first lead of the game
Jordan point 4-6 with five points scored in a row
Jordan scores on a Chambers kill off the block 4-7
Jordan ace serve 4-8, Sauk searching for momentum
Chambers hits into the net side out and it's 5-8
Chambers smashes it, 5-9
Chambers serves...Krista scores a kill off the block 6-9
Lexi serves...Jordan kill 6-10
A one+ minute volley plays out...then Chambers net violation 7-10
Ashley K serving...Chambers hits into the net 8-10
Jordan scores 8-11
Sauk error 8-12
Jordan hit out of bounds 9-12 and Macy moves back up front
Sauk missed dig 9-13
Jordan kill on the right side 9-14
Chambers drives to the baseline but it's out of bounds! 10-14 She's all over the court but appearing winded
Kendra kill off the block and it's 11-14
Jena serves...Jordan scores off the Chambers kill 11-15
Jordan serves out of bounds (Paige Smith) 12-15
Liz Ellens serves...Jordan error 13-15!
Jordan's Chambers kill 13-16
Chambers kill again 13-17
Jordan hit out of bounds 14-17
Jordan kill 14-18 but Chambers drops back to serve
**Chambers serves into the net again! it's 15-18
Lexi serves...Jordan can't return it! Ace serve! 16-18
Jordan's Chambers hits out of bounds! 17-18 Clock reads 21:04 hours
Chambers cross-court kill 17-19
A player injury leads Sauk to employ a 5-1 offense through Jena Klaphake trailing 17-19
Jordan kill 17-20
Krista ace attack off the block! 18-20 they are within range
Sauk serve into the net 18-21
Timeout Sauk Centre at 21:07 hours...
Smith kill for Jordan in the middle 18-22
Jordan hit out of bounds 19-22
Krista serves...Jordan has no return! 20-22 and Jordan calls a timeout at 21:10 hours
Sauk serves into the net, man that hurts 20-23
Chambers kill 20-24 and timeout for Coach Klaphake at 21:11 hours
Jordan error! 21-24
Jena serves...MACY KILL! 22-24
Jordan wins and the score is 22-25 with the game finishing at 21:14 hours...Sauk couldn't pull through down the stretch, and we are going to a fifth game for the third time in the last four matches! It's just a little bit crazy, just a little!

Game three begins...

It's 20:25 hours and game three is about to begin!

Kendra block! 1-0 lead
Jordan scores off a block 1-1 tie
Sauk net violation 1-2
Jordan's Chambers with a kill 1-3
Jordan hitting error 2-3
Jordan muffs a serve-receive (Chambers) and it's tied at 3-3
Chambers kill off a block 3-4
Macy kill on the baseline! 4-4 tie and her 19 unofficial kills
Jordan can't return it, Kendra ace serve with a 5-4 lead
Jordan point 5-5 tie
Macy kill off a block after Krista passes a hard shot from Chambers to Jena...6-5
Macy ace serve! 7-5 lead!
Sauk serve out of bounds 7-6 lead
Jordan can't clear the net on the attack and it's 8-6 in favor of Sauk Centre!
Lexi serving...but Sauk hitting error 8-7
Sauk error 8-8 tie
Krista kill in the middle! 9-8 lead and we are 70 minutes into this match!
Smith kill for Jordan 9-9 tie
Chambers kill (she has over 400 kills this season) and it's 9-10
Kendra kill off a block! Sauk ties it 10-10
Krista serving...Jordan returns a kill against no block 10-11
Jordan kill by Chambers 10-12
Jordan hits out of bounds and it's 11-12, Streeters catch a break
Ashley K at the 10-foot line for a kill shot to the floor! 12-12 tie
Jordan slices the defense and it's 12-13
Jordan kill 12-14
Jordan's Chambers with an erratic attack with an error and it's 13-14
Sauk serves out of bounds to erase that previous play and it's 13-15
Jordan scores and it's 13-16...Coach Klaphake calls a timeout at 20:36 hours to talk things over with his squad
Jordan point 13-17
Jordan hits the net on a serve! 14-17
Jordan error! 15-17
Macy serves...Jordan hits out of bounds and it's 16-17 with Chambers in the back row
Jordan scores off a double block 16-18
Jordan kill 16-19
Jordan kill off a free ball 16-20 with a steep deficit...Coach Klaphake calls a timeout at 20:40 hours
An incredibly long volley plays out...back and forth almost 10 times, but Jordan scores on a kill by Chambers for a 16-21 game
Krista kill to the corner! 17-21
Lexi serves...Jordan hits out of bounds 18-21
Jordan scores 18-22
Sauk hit out of bounds by inches 18-23
Jordan's Chambers kill 18-24
Macy back row kill 19-24
Jordan point 19-25 loss with game three ending at 20:45 hours
Sauk now regroups for a battle in game four!

Game two begins at 19:55 against #2-seeded Jordan

Jordan's front line goes 6'2", 6'0" and 5'10" by the way. Unofficially Macy had 11 kills in the first game.

Game two begins...
Sauk error, 0-1 score
Macy kill 1-1 tie
Jordan point 1-2
Macy kill 2-2 tie
Jordan kill 2-3
Jordan ace serve 2-4
Sauk hitting error 2-5 deficit
Macy kill 3-5 score
Sauk can't return an attack, point Jordan, 3-6 deficit
Jordan earns an ace block 3-7 (their biggest lead of the night)
Krista kill to the corner for a side out and a 4-7 deficit
Ashley Kollman hit off the block for a kill and a 5-7 score
Sauk serve into the net 5-8
Macy was blocked and it's 5-9
Krista knock at the net for a side out and it's 6-9
Jordan hit out of bounds wide left on an attack! 7-9
Jordan hits out of bounds again (Chambers) for an 8-9 score
Jordan kill 8-10
Sauk scores it's 9-10
Sauk serves out of bounds 9-11
Macy kill off of a block 10-11
Jordan kill by 6-footer Paige Smith for a 10-12 deficit
Jordan kill and it's 10-13 with their 6'2" blocker up front
Jordan hit out of bounds 11-13
Jordan's Chambers knocks it out of bounds and it's 12-13
Jordan's Chambers puts it away and it's 12-14, Sauk is trying for all they're worth to tie the game and hang onto the momentum
Macy buries it! Point for Sauk! 13-14 deficit
Jordan's Chambers buries a short set and it's 13-15
Jordan hit out of bounds! Their hitters are strong but erratic at times, it's 14-15
Jordan scores and it's 14-16 (Clock reads 20:08 hours)
Krista kill shot off the block and it's 15-16
Jordan hits into the net! TIE finally it's 16-16
Kollman serves...then they hit out of bounds on the return 16-17
Jordan kill by Smith, she's got power, it's 16-18
Krista kill again! 17-18
Sauk serves out of bounds, it's 17-19
Jordan kill 17-20...Coach Klaphake calls a timeout at 20:11 hours with his squad trailing 17-20.
Macy kill off the block! A great set from Lexi and it's 18-20
Jena serving...Macy blocks Chambers! NICE! It's 19-20
Jena serving again...Chambers drives an attack out of bounds and it's tied at 20-20!
Jena serving...Sauk scores on a net violation by Jordan! 21-20! Sauk dominates out of the timeout. The current timeout is called at 20:14 hours.
Jordan hit out of bounds! Sauk leads 22-20!
Jena serving...they get a free ball on return, and then another free ball on the return. But Chambers drives down a kill, 22-21
Jordan serves out of bounds! NICE, it's wide left. 23-21 lead!
Chambers smashes a kill on a block with authority...23-22
Jordan ace serve, Sauk bumps out of bounds 23-23 tie
Chambers with a hitting error! Too much on that attack...24-23 lead! Jordan blows their final timeout of game two at 20:17.
Macy serving...Chambers kill on their second attack...24-24 tie, and another extra-point game
Jordan's Chambers serves into the net! 25-24 lead
Lexi serving...Jordan kill 25-25 tie
Jordan hits into the net! 26-25 lead
Ashley K serves...Jordan kill off a block 26-26 tie
Kendra Z kill! 27-26 lead
Krista serves...Macy kill off a block! Sauk Centre wins again in extra points! 28-26 lead and it can't get any more exciting after two games are in the book at the state volleyball tournament.
TWO DOWN, ONE TO GO!

Sauk Centre scores first vs. Jordan

Game one...
Macy Weller put Sauk Centre up 1-0 with a kill!
Sauk hit out of bounds 1-1 tie
A 2nd kill by Macy for a 2-1 lead
(The Mainstreeters are digging well against Jordan's hard-hitting attack)
Kill by Jordan for a 2-2 tie
Macy for a 3rd kill to make it a 3-2 lead
Sauk serve out of bounds to tie it 3-3
Jordan kill by a sophomore hitter for their first lead of the game at 3-4
Jordan hit into the net for a 4-4 tie
Macy ace serve! 5-4 lead
Jordan kill into a block to tie it 5-5
Sauk hit out of bounds for a 5-6 deficit
Jordan hit out of bounds by Chambers and a 6-6 tie
Ashley Kollman knocked a kill into a block for a 7-6 lead
Jordan kill, a hard shot to the floor for a 7-7 tie
Macy scores on a kill on the 10-foot line for an 8-7 lead
Sauk Centre blocks an attack for a 9-7 lead
Jordan tips it out of bounds for a 10-7 lead by Sauk Centre!
Illegal hit called on Sauk Centre to make it 10-8
Sauk hit out of bounds 10-9
Jordan puts one away to tie it 10-10...both teams went on 3-0 runs back-to-back
Double-hit violation on Sauk Centre to put Jordan ahead 10-11
Jordan scores again to go up 10-12
Sauk hits out of bounds 10-13 deficit
Jordan hits out of bounds to end the run at 6-0 and make it 11-13**
Jordan buries a quick set for an 11-14 score
Sauk scores after a long volley of back-and-forth attacks to make it 12-14
Kendra Zenzen knocks down a ball through a double block to make it 13-14!
Jena Klaphake knocks down an ace serve! Tie game! 14-14 score
Macy earns a kill on a high set to put the Mainstreeters up 15-14!
Chambers hits a kill for Jordan to tie it 15-15
Macy kill again! 16-15 lead for Sauk Centre
Sauk serves into the net to tie it 16-16
Jordan scores off of a block to go up 16-17
**Coach Klaphake calls a timeout at 19:36 hours...
Jordan scores out of the timeout 16-18
Jordan hitting error, 17-18 deficit for Sauk
Sauk serves out of bounds 17-19 deficit
Ashley Gruber kill to make it 18-19
Jordan kill off of a block 18-20 deficit
Kollman kill, Jordan block out of bounds 19-20 deficit
Kollman goes back to serve...Von Wahlde keeps a return alive, but Jordan scores on a kill to make the score 19-21
Jordan's Chambers hits from the left side for a kill to make it 19-22
Jordan's Chambers knocks the ball out of bounds past the baseline to make it 20-22
Primus serving...Jordan returns it out of bounds for a Primus ace! 21-22 deficit...at 19:41 Jordan calls a timeout.
Macy knocks it down at the middle! Point Sauk Centre! 22-22 tie!
Sauk hits out of bounds to trail 22-23
Macy kill off of a block! NICE...23-23 tie
Jena serves...After three returns, Macy scores after they receive a free ball! Game point! 24-23 lead for the Mainstreeters!
...and Jordan calls a timeout at 19:44.
Jena serves again...Chambers earns a kill on the baseline. 24-24 tie, crazy
Chambers kill...game point the other way, 24-25 deficit
Sauk timeout at 19:46...
Macy kill into a block! 25-25 tie
Liz Ellens comes in to serve...odd violation, Ellens serves it too far back? What a nasty call by the stripes. 25-26 deficit
Chambers serves, into the net! 26-26 tie!
Macy serves...Kollman scores a kill! 27-26 lead!
Macy serves again, a hard top spin serve...#14 kill for Jordan 27-27 tie
Jordan net violation! 28-27 lead!
Lexi Berscheit serving...but after a great save by Lexi after two returns each the Mainstreeters hit out of bounds. 28-28 tie
Jordan hitting error! 29-28 lead for Sauk!
Jordan kill, tie game 29-29
Chambers kill for Jordan with no block...29-30 deficit, not good
Jordan can't get a ball across, Chambers can't deliver...30-30 tie! CRAZY
Krista Primus serving...Jordan hit out of bounds by Chambers! 31-30 lead
Krista serve...Macy SCORES! KILL FOR SAUK! Oh boy! A 33-minute game ends with Macy knocking down a kill after a great serve by Krista. It's 19:53 hours.
Final score: 32-30 win for the Maroon!

Mainstreeters are warming up at Xcel Energy Center! Match to begin soon

The Class 2A state quarterfinal match between Sauk Centre and Jordan will begin at about 19:20 hours tonight. Mark Knoblauch is reviewing the Sauk Centre lineup prior to the start of the match on BOB FM 105.5.

Coach Klaphake enters the match 180-55 overall in his 8 years as head coach at Sauk Centre.

Mainstreeter volleyball interviews - thoughts on STATE!

Two of the seniors, as well as Coach Klaphake...




Stay tuned for more updates today on the Mainstreeters volleyball as well as girls' swimming diving teams...

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Passing along a note from DTV-20

If you can't attend the state tournament volleyball matches in St. Paul this week, be sure to follow the team's progress at the Herald Sports Blog as well as with DTV20 in Sauk Centre.

Our link to the sports blog is: http://heraldsportsblog.blogspot.com

DTV20 will offer state tournament DVDs. I have to check on the price, but whatever it is, I will say it's a great deal!

~RO

More scenes from last week's Mainstreeters football and volleyball action

The Mainstreeters win game one against Annandale...

...and the game two win on Saturday...

At the Fargo Dome in the Section 6AA championship game, a long pass to Derek Holm in the end zone was knocked down during the 4th quarter at the Fargo Dome...

How exciting! Division I letter of intent signing held at Sauk Centre high school

(Right) Dozens and dozens of Sauk Centre students, teachers, family friends and other Mainstreeter fans gathered this morning at the gymnasium to witness Kali Peschel's signing of her letter of intent with the Iowa Hawkeyes Division I women's basketball program.






(Herald video below) Excitement was in the air prior to the signing this morning...

Sauk Centre's football team displays school pride on the gridiron and on the sidelines for Mainstreeters volleyball






Monday, November 7, 2011

Fan Buses slated for state volleyball tourney

Minnesota National Bank and First State Bank are once again sponsoring fan buses for Thursday and Friday night's games for the Sauk Centre volleyball squad.

The Streeters will play Jordan Thursday at 7 p.m. and win or lose will play Friday at 7 p.m.

Buses are scheduled to leave from the high school at 3:30 p.m. on both days.

Cost to ride is $10. Deadline to sign up is noon on Thursday.

To sign up call Minnesota National Bank at 352-5211 and ask for Rita or Brenda.

Hurry because spots will fill up fast!

GO STREETERS!

Saturday, November 5, 2011

Section Champs!

Streeters headed back to state!

Jena Klaphake with the set.
Kendra Zenzen puts one past Annandale.

Ashley Gruber and Macy Weller go up for a block.
They did it again.

After going the distance against Albany and Little Falls to get through the sub-section playoffs, the Sauk Centre volleyball squad beat Annandale 3-0 (25-12, 25-16, 25-16) to advance to their second consecutive state tournament.

While the matches against Albany and Little Falls were highly intense and close, this one was relatively anti-climactic. Sauk got out to an early lead in game one and never looked back. Annandale had some spurts of solid play, but the 26-4 Streeters were just too much for the 10-19 Cardinals.

After struggling with their serving and passing in their last two matches, Sauk looked solid in the section final. They were able to spread the ball around to numerous hitters. It wasn’t just Macy Weller and Krista Primus putting balls down…it was Ashley Kollman, Kendra Zenzen, Ashley Gruber, Brianna VonWahdle and many more taking their turns. Solid setting was provided by both Lexie Berscheit and Jena Klaphake.

Klaphake, along with Weller and Primus, were named to the All-Section squad after the game.

The win improves Sauk to 27-4 and puts them in position to make a run at a state title. Their first-round opponent is unknown at this point. They will play Thursday at the Xcel Energy Center at either 5 p.m. or 7 p.m.

Macy Weller was named to the all-section squad.

Jacob Gerhartz medals at State Cross Country meet!

In a superb performance at the state cross country meet this afternoon, senior Jacob Gerhartz ran a 16:19.2 race and took seventh place individually to earn a Top-10 medal. A total of 150 male athletes competed in the race.

Eighth grader Madison Greenwaldt placed 80th with a race of 16:19.0. A total of 156 female athletes competed in the race.

Check out next week's Sauk Centre Herald's Nov. 10 issue to read more about their performances at the state meet, including comments from Coach Trutna.

In just under 60 minutes, Sauk Centre dispatches Annandale 3-0 in section volleyball championship! Up next: STATE!

The 11th-ranked Sauk Centre Mainstreeters volleyball team swept upstart Annandale out of the playoffs with a 25-12, 25-16, 25-16 sweep in the Section 6AA championship match.

In game three, the Mainstreeters overcame a 4-2 deficit to take a 7-6 lead and then never trail the rest of the way.

A block from Kendra Zenzen, two straight kills by Macy Weller and a kill by Ashley Kollman fueled a rally that gave them a 13-9 lead. They went on another surge after leading 17-13 to close out the match with an 8-3 run to close out the match.

Coach Klaphake commented right after winning today, "The girls played really well. Taking a break yesterday and going to the football game was good for us. We came out fired up today.

Our serve-receive and ball control was great tonight. We had them on their heels for most of the match."


The Class 2A state volleyball tournament opens up on Thursday this next week. Match time for the quarterfinal match will be either at 5 p.m. or 7 p.m.

Seeding takes place at 8 a.m. on Sunday (tomorrow), and later tomorrow morning the first-round opponent for Sauk Centre will be announced.

Stay tuned!