MADISON, WISC. - In their final regular season appearance inside
H. Douglas Redsten Gymnasium, the Madison College women's volleyball team split a pair of matches during their
Madison College Quad on Friday afternoon. The WolfPack opened with a key 3-0 sweep of Sauk Valley Community College in a Region 4 match, but followed with a 3-0 loss to Heartland Community College, who entered ranked #11 in the same
NJCAA Division II Poll that listed Madison College as receiving votes. The Pack closes the home slate of the regular season schedule with an 11-2 record.
Match #1: Madison College 3, Sauk Valley Community College 0 (25-11, 27-25, 25-20)
Madison College used a number of small three- and four-point service runs to slowly pull away from the Skyhawks. Leading 17-9, sophomore
Tyra Anderson earned a kill to ignite a final 7-0 surge to reach set point and eventually win 25-11.
Sauk Valley Community College (19-13) answered in the second set and got out to a 9-5 lead early, however, the WolfPack posted four consecutive points to pull even. The back-and-forth set featuring 11 ties and seven lead changes never saw the lead grow beyond four points. Trailing 20-17, freshman
Addyson McHugh registered back-to-back kills to pull within one. The Skyhawks maintained the edge, and evetually reached set point at 24-22 before an SVCC attack error and a
Gabby Hack kill evened the score at 24-24.
Tyra Anderson's kill made it a 3-0 run and set point for the WolfPack until Sauk Valley answered to tie the score one last time. The set closed with a block from McHugh and another Anderson kill.
Set three turned on a 6-0 run that turned a two-point deficit into a 15-11 advantage. The teams played sideout volleyball the rest of the set until Hack's block of a SVCC attack finished off the sweep.
Madison College posted 36 kills and a .186 attack percentage, as well as seven aces, seven blocks, and 38 digs.
McHugh, a first year outside hitter and middle blocker, led the Pack with 12 kills, hitting .108 for the match. She also tied for team-high honors with two aces and two blocks. McHugh boasts 11 matches with double-digit kills this season.
Also in double-figures for kills was freshman
Courtney Gorum, who tallied 11 kills and hit .500 for her fifth match reaching that attack percentage. The native of Chesapeake, Virginia, also earned a team-best 15 digs for her eighth double-double of the fall.
Freshman setter
Hope Hesselberg accumulated 20 assists and two aces, while sophomore
Daryn Schaefer added 15 assists.
Libero
Kendall Weisensel registered ten digs and two aces.
The Skyhawks still lead the all-time series by a 20-6-1 margin.
Match #2: #11 Heartland Community College 3, Madison College 0 (25-22, 25-18, 25-20)
Nearly three weeks after upsetting then-#6-ranked Heartland Community College in four sets at the Parkland College Tournament, the #11 Hawks earned some revenge against the WolfPack with the road sweep. An early 5-0 run in the opening set created some separation for Heartland Community College (25-7) at 8-3. Madison College did close to within 17-16, but was unable to break through.
The Hawks came out firing in the second set with a 5-0 before a
Tyra Anderson kill got the WolfPack on the board.
Gabby Hack's block nine points later again pulled Madison College to within a point at 8-7, however, HCC never relinquished the lead. The final set featured an early six-point cushion for the visitors with a 9-3 lead, after which the Pack never got closer than three.
Sophia Venne hammered home a kill to make it 20-17, but the Hawks earned the next five of the next eight points to win the set and match.
Madison College racked up 28 kills, led by an 11-kill third set, and hit .155 for the match. They also added four aces, nine blocks, and 37 digs.
Courtney Gorum, a sophomore transfer, was tops with 11 kills and hit at a .121 clip. She also chased down a team-leading dozen digs for her ninth career double-double.
While freshman
Hope Hesselberg led the team in assists with 16, it was sophomore
Daryn Schaefer's ten assists that moved her to 1,719 for her career and into second on the school's all-time list for assists. She passed Hannah Grahn's (2013-14) 1,711, and only trails Kristen Klein's (2008-09) career mark of 1,949.
Hack, a native of Lake Mills, Wisconsin, set a season-high with five blocks, giving her five matches with five or more in her career.
The match result evened the all-time series at 1-1, with both matches taking place this season.
The other two matches in the quad saw Heartland Community College defeat Milwaukee Area Technical College, 3-0 (25-18, 25-11, 25-15), and SVCC use five sets to get by the Stormers, 3-2 (25-19, 22-25, 23-25, 25-19, 15-10).
Up Next:
Madison College (20-9) will finish the regular season on Tuesday, October 24 with a road match against in-state rival Milwaukee Area Technical College (17-12). The WolfPack has dominated the all-time series by a 93-29-3 mark, and owns wins in 39 consecutive matches going back to 2003. First serve is at 7:00 p.m. at
Reiman Gymnasium on the Alverno College campus in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
All matches will stream live at
MadisonCollege.TV.
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