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HCC Sports Information
Saturday, August 29, 2009
COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa – The
13th-ranked Hutchinson Community College volleyball team finished off the
Iowa Western Reiver Invitational in style on Saturday with a pair of
three-set sweeps.
On Saturday morning, the
Lady Dragons upended No. 3 Missouri State-West Plains 26-24, 25-18, 25-22.
HCC then toppled Division II Kirkwood Community College 25-23, 25-21, 25-11
to finish the Reiver Classic 3-1.
The Lady Dragons will now
open Jayhawk Conference play on Tuesday night at Pratt, and then it’s off to
Florida for the weekend and the Hillsborough Invitational in Hillsborough,
Fla.
“I
told the girls to not get too caught up with that win because it's tough to
tell much from preseason polls,” HCC coach Ronda Shirley said. “But West
Plains always is in the top 10 and a big rival for an out-of-state team.”
WEST PLAINS RECAP
(Summary)
The Lady Dragons snapped a
five-match losing streak to West Plains and defeated the Grizzlies for the
first time since 2006.
Hutchinson hit a
tournament-high .263 as a team and tallied 8.5 total blocks with three aces
serves against West Plains.
Freshman Kate Morrell led
the Lady Dragons with a tournament-high 15 kills on .345 hitting. Morrell
added four block assists and three digs.
Sophomore Debbie Ohl had 12
kills on .308 hitting with six digs and four blocks.
Freshman setter Lindsay
Dusin had a double-double with 35 assists and 10 digs.
HCC was on fire on sets 2
and 3, hitting .462 in the second and .303 in the third set.
KIRKWOOD RECAP
(Summary)
Morrell capped off a solid
day with 12 kills and hit a .455 with three blocks to lead the Lady Dragons
in their invitational finale against Division II Kirkwood.
Sophomore Karol Marins had a
second-straight match with 12 kills, hitting a .281, with seven digs and two
blocks.
Sophomore Debbie Ohl pounded
down 10 kills and had six blocks and six digs. Sophomore Bailey Phelan had
seven kills and a career-high 19 digs.
Dusin, who earned all four
starts at setter for the Lady Dragons, finished with a tournament-high 40
assists.
The Lady Dragons hit .208
with 82 team digs and 11 total blocks. Hitting less than .200 in the first
two sets, the Lady Dragons hit .303 (13 kills, 33 attacks, three errors). |
