KANKAKEE, ILL. - Friday's Kankakee Community College Triangular featured a pair of 3-0 sweeps for Madison College and sophomore
Ella Vosberg putting her name at the top of an all-time list. The #12-ranked WolfPack dominated their matches with wins of 25-16, 25-16, 26-24 over the host Cavaliers and 25-13, 25-9, 25-19 against South Suburban College to close the regular season with an 11-match win streak that includes ten wins by sweep. In the win over the Bulldogs, Vosberg recorded her 818th career kill to surpass the previous school-record of 817 set by Courtney Gorum just two years ago.
Match #1: #12 Madison College 3, Kankakee Community College 0 (25-16, 25-16, 26-24)
Madison College put together a 5-0 run in the first set to take a 6-2 lead. They eventually stretched the differential to eight points before playing sideout volleyball much of the remainder of the set to win by nine on an
Allie Andrews kill.
Another early 5-0 run broke open a set tied at 5-5, with four of the points coming as the result of errors by Kankakee Community College (15-20-1). The score remained within three points until late in the set with the Pack used an Andrews kill to start a 9-3 closing stretch that saw
Makayla Dallas post two kills and a set-winning ace.
The third set was a back-and-forth tussle that was even at 23-23 when Dallas terminated another kill to earn match point; however, a Cavaliers kill forced extra points. Following a KCC attack error to regain match point, Madison College closed out the win after the home team failed to get the ball over in three hits.
The WolfPack registered 32 kills, a .227 attack percentage, seven aces, 4.0 blocks, and 34 digs.
Dallas, a right side hitter from Valders, Wisconsin, hit at a .348 clip en route to a team-high ten kills. She also added two aces and five digs.
Vosberg was right behind with nine kills and a .273 efficiency. It left the outside hitter one kill shy of tying the record.
Andrews tallied 25 assists, while freshman
Amara Jahner collected a dozen digs. Fellow first year
Colby LaPlant led the WolfPack with three aces.
Madison College leads the all-time series by a 6-4 count with two wins this season after also sweeping KCC at the Parkland Mid-Season Invite two weeks ago.
Match #2: #12 Madison College 3, South Suburban College 0 (25-13, 25-9, 25-19)
Ella Vosberg's first kill of the day's second match tied her for the all-time record, and she immediately followed it up with the record-breaker as the WolfPack took an 8-1 lead in the first set. The outside hitter from Cuba City, Wisconsin, becomes the fourth player to break it in the last decade and joins Gorum as one of two players to surpass the 800 kills mark in school history.
The WolfPack started fast on the service of
Sam Schultz, who recorded two aces en route to a 6-0 lead. The differential pushed to 14-2 on a kill from
Braelee Kiepert as Madison cruised to the win.
Set two opened with three consecutive aces by freshman
Gretchen Kammerer, and was soon followed by an 8-0 surge with two more aces from
Jaydon Golsteyn to lead 11-1. They went on to secure a 16-point victory that ended with another Golsteyn ace.
South Suburban College (11-19) kept the third set closer as it was tied at 13-13 before the WolfPack took the next three points and never relinquished the lead. The matched ended with a Kiepert kill as Madison College improved to 5-0 all-time against the Bulldogs.
Kiepert racked up a career-high 14 kills and a .542 attack percentage. Vosberg added five kills, followed by four each for
Allie Andrews and
Colby LaPlant.
Andrews also had 11 assists; however, it was Kammerer that directed the offense for 20 assists. The native of Brodhead, Wisconsin, also had a team-leading four aces.
Libero
Amara Jahner, an Appleton, Wisconsin, native, was tops with 15 digs.
Madison College finished with 35 kills and an impressive .357 hitting efficiency, as well as 15 aces, 3.0 blocks, and 49 digs.
Up Next:
Madison College (28-6), who boasts its fourth 20-win season in five years under head coach
Mallory Stone, will open the Region 4 Tournament with a home quarterfinal match on Wednesday, November 4. First serve inside H. Douglas Redsten Gymnasium will be at 6:00 p.m. and will be streamed live at
MadisonCollege.tv.
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