Ipswich participated in Tuesday and Thursday high school volleyball action last week - one match away from home and the other in the Tiger Den. Unfortunately they were both setbacks. That road match would be a clash of the Tigers, won by the Mobridge-Pollock Tigers last Tuesday in Mobridge -25-21, 25-14, 28-26. Then Ipswich sustained a 3-1 loss to Hitchcock-Tulare two nights later.
There were obviously some bright spots in both matches. A highlight of the Thursday match was that Ipswich had lost its opener 25-22, but regrouped for a 25-17 win of the second set. (That set point was scored by setter Quincy Olivier.) But the visitors coached by Jordan Opp evened the match with a 25-20 win, surviving a late rally by the Tigers. (Ipswich had fallen behind 23-15 after the Patriots had rattled off five unanswered points.) But Kaitlyn Bierman interrupted that H-T momentum with a kill. However, the visitors would clinch the set and the match with a decisive 25-17 set win of the fourth set.
Ipswich obtained a 76 of 89 serving evening to initiate its offense against the Patriots and included eight aces, led by Madison Geditz at 19-20 with three aces and Bierman 17-20 with a pair of aces. But the Patriots were 82-92 on the service line with four aces. Ipswich added a 102-134 evening at the net that featured 36 kills, paced by Bierman 43-48 with 15 kills, Gracie Lange 25-35 with 11 kills and Baylee Kulesa 15-18 with four kills. The visitors responded with 109 hits in 130 tries including 34 kills. Ipswich was 115-117 in setting attempts with 27 assists. Bierman finished 43-44 there with 13 assists and Olivier went 51-52 with 11 assists.
Ipswich was able to come away with 86 team digs, led by Geditz with 29 and Bierman with 17 and one solo block and six assisted blocks. Lange had one of each and Vanesa Diaz and Kulesa two assists each.
A bright spot of the evening was that Ipswich was able to sweep its JV match that night.
Meanwhile, Ipswich would end up 52-65 at the service line with four aces vs. M-P, led by Diaz 13-15 with two aces, Kulesa 10-11 with one ace and Geditz 9-11 with an ace. Ipswich set up its net play with 103 sets with no errors and 18 assists were included. Olivier went 52-52 in setting with 11 assists, while Bierman finished 31-31 with three assists and Geditz 15-15 with three assists. Ipswich finished 112-132 at the net and included 30 kills, led by Bierman 36-43 with 13 kills and Olivier 25-28 with seven kills. Lange was also 24-31 with seven kills.
Ipswich had 77 digs, led by Geditz with 22.
Next was to be a Monday evening match in Ipswich vs. LRC foe Leola/Frederick with the results not available as of our newspaper deadline. Then on October 25 the Tigers are scheduled to conclude their regular-season schedule with a home-court non-conference match vs. Herreid/Selby Area.
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