MADISON, WISC. - In a rematch of last year's Region 4 championship, Madison College sent a message to the rest of the region with a dominating three-set sweep of Harper College inside H. Douglas Redsten Gymnasium on Wednesday. The #14-ranked WolfPack cruised through the first two sets and then rallied late in a competitive third set to win in extra points. The victory on evens the all-time series at 21-21.
Madison College wasted no time flexing some early muscle as sophomores
Ella Vosberg and
Makayla Dallas terminated kills as a fast 3-0 start eventually turned into a 9-4 advantage after Dallas added another kill and an ace. Freshman
Amara Jahner registered an ace as part of a five-point service run that opened up the differential to 20-10. Harper College (14-7) fought off three consecutive set points before the Pack claimed it with a Hawks service error.
The second set opened with another Vosberg smash followed by three consecutive aces from freshman
Gretchen Kammerer. Following a kill by the Hawks, Jahner strung together another five-point run at the service line with one ace as the WolfPack assumed a 9-1 lead. The advantage swelled to 15-4 after sophomore
Caylee Coggins exchanged kills with aces from freshman
Danica Pauls in a 4-0 surge that forced a Harper College timeout. Coggins later added two aces of her own before Madison College finished off the set with kills by
Braelee Kiepert, Vosberg,
Colby LaPlant, and two by Pauls.
Playing with their lineup and rotation a bit in the third set, Madison College fell behind 8-4 before engineering a four-point run with a Coggins ace and Kiepert kill to take an 11-10 lead. With the set tied at 18-18, three consecutive errors by the Hawks handed the home team a 21-18 edge; however, Harper College continued to fight and won the next five points to make it 23-21. After a Madison College timeout, Kiepert and Pauls recorded kills and an illegal set by the Hawks made it match point at 24-23. Harper then claimed two straight points to reach their first set point of the match, and after another Pauls kill, the Hawks regained set point at 26-25. From that point on, it was all WolfPack with a Vosberg kill to pull even and a Harper error to regain match point. Jahner's third ace of the match proved to be the final point in the sweep.
Madison College racked up 35 kills with a .202 attack percentage, compared to 23 kills and a .102 efficiency for the Hawks. The WolfPack also held a 13-3 advantage in aces and a 53-38 lead in digs, while Harper College owned a 7-4 differential in blocks.
With a balanced offensive attack, Vosberg led the way with eight kills and hit at a .333 clip. Kiepert, an outside hitter from Appleton, Wisconsin, added seven kills, followed by five each for Dallas and Pauls. Dallas led the team with a .625 hitting percentage.
Setters
Allie Andrews and Kammerer each finished with 13 assists, with Andrews adding three kills and Kammerer tying a career-best three aces. Coggins, Pauls, and Jahner also had three aces as the Pack has reached double-digit aces in for the tenth time this season.
Freshman
Katrina Meinholz, a native of Mount Horeb, Wisconsin. was tops with 1.5 blocks, while
Sam Schultz and Jahner tied for team-high honors with a dozen digs each.
Up Next:
Madison College (14-4) continues their mid-season homestand with a Region 4 showdown against Rock Valley College (18-4) on Wednesday, October 7. The Golden Eagles hold a 46-32-1 lead in the all-time series, while the WolfPack have won the last three meetings. First serve is at 6:00 p.m. inside
H. Douglas Redsten Gymnasium and will be streamed live at
MadisonCollege.tv.
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