Edmunds County Tribune -

Ipswich hosted a Subway Invitational high school volleyball tournament last Saturday in the Tiger Den. It was a busy day indeed with action in both gyms.

Ipswich ended up in fifth this year thanks to a 2-1 fifth place win over Herreid/Selby Area in their placement match.

Aberdeen Christian won the event 2-0 over Kimball/White Lake. And Langford Area topped Milbank 2-1 for third. The seventh place game was won by Lemmon over Leola/Frederick Area.

Ipswich placed two players on the All-Tournament Team - Katie Bierman and Madison Geditz. So did Aberdeen Christian, who went undefeated in the tourney.

In the placement game Ipswich won 25-13, but lost 25-19 in the second game vs. HSA. The Tigers regrouped to win 26-24.

Bierman was 7 of 10 in serving with three aces, while Ipswich was 54-63 overall with six aces. (Gracie Lange went 12-12 with one ace.)

Ipswich was 93-106 at the net with 21 kills led by Lange 19-19 with seven kills, Bierman 27-30 with seven kills and Quincy Olivier 25-31 with three kills.

Ipswich had a perfect 103-103 setting effort led by Olivier 50-50 with 10 assists. (Ipswich totaled 16 assists.) Bierman also went 29-29 with five assists.

Ipswich had opened with a 2-0 sweep of Leola/Frederick Area (25-19, 25-20). The Tigers were 58-67 at the net with 20 kills led by Lange 17-22 with eight kills, Vanesa Diaz 5-5 with five kills and Olivier 13-13 with three kills.

In set assists they were led by Olivier with 14. Ipswich totaled 60 sets led by Olivier with 51 and the Lady Tigers totaled 16 assists.

Ipswich had 33 accurate serves with 11 aces led by Olivier 8-8 with two aces and Baylee Kulesa 6-8 with three aces. Diaz and Olivier each had a block assist and there were 39 digs led by Bierman with 14 and Kulesa with eight.

In other Tiger action:

Ipswich 1 - Milbank 2

(25-20, 22-25, 19-25)

Serving: 42 of 50, 6 aces (Katie Bierman 8 of 9, 2 aces)

Setting: 122 of 122, 28 assists (Quincy Olivier 95 of 95, 27 assists)

Attacking: 111 of 126, 30 kills (Katie Bierman 33 of 37, 10 kills; Baylee Kulesa 20 of 22, 9 kills; Gracie Lange 40 of 49, 7 kills)

Blocks: 4 Assists (Quincy Olivier, 2 Assists)

Digs: 71 (Madison Geditz 21, Katie Bierman 20)

Ipswich 1 -

Kimball/White Lake 2

(16-25, 25-11, 21-25)

Serving: 39 of 50, 8 aces (Quincy Olivier 6 of 8, 4 aces; Baylee Kulesa 11 of 11, 2 aces)

Setting: 93 of 93, 16 assists (Quincy Olivier 52 of 52, 9 assists; Katie Bierman 20 of 20, 6 assists)

Attacking: (Gracie Lange 21 of 23, 11 kills; Katie Bierman 24 of 29, 7 kills)

Digs: 69 (Madison Geditz 16, Baylee Kulesa 16)

ALL TOURNAMENT TEAM

Aberdeen Christian (first place): Mary Fites, Joy Rohrbach

Kimball-White Lake (second place): Ryann Nielsen, Madison Heath

Langford (third place): Ashley Cadwell

Milbank (fourth place): Hallie Schulte

Ipswich (fifth place): Katie Bierman, Madison Geditz

Herreid/Selby Area (sixth place): Kendell Sawinsky

Lemmon (seventh place): Allie Kohn

Leola/Frederick Area (eighth place)