October 2023

Cardinal runners continue postseason tune-up

The state-ranked Redwood Valley boys and girls cross country teams continued their tune-up for the upcoming postseason by winning the BOLD Invitational Thursday on a windy, fall day at the Olivia Golf Club.The Cardinal girls smoked the field, finishing with six girls in the top 10 to score 19 team points easily outdistancing second place MCC (57) and GFW (69) in the six team race.Addie Thomes finished in first with a time of 19:48 and Lola Luze was right behind in second (19:59).Madi Munsell (20:23) would finish fourth, Ellie Nelson (20:35) was fifth and Reese Prescott seventh (21:14).Annie Lunde (21:53) recorded a season best to finish 10th and Karsyn Ramey set a new personal best of 23:38 to finish in 21st.Klaira Horesji (23:46) was second in the JV race race, Ming Lin third, Paige Kaupang fourth and Sophia Bidinger fifth.The Redwood Valley boys also claimed the title, edging a good MCC squad by a single point (27-28) despite Landyn Nordby not in the line-up.Will Ahrens rolled to the individual title with a time of 16:02.Teammate Kilen Cilek was second (16:30), Clayton Salmon placed fifth (17:55), Aidan Salmon was ninth (18:23), Mason Anderson was 10th (18:25), Tyler Robinson 12th (18:34) and Elway Berg 15th (18:47).Joe Gerke and Thomas Gerke finished one-two in the JV race.

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Cougar netters pick up victories

The Cedar Mountain girls volleyball team went 3-2 over the weekend at the Jimmy John’s Tournament held in Marshall.The Cougars (14-6) opened up with wins over YME (25-11, 25-16) and Adrian-Ellsworth (25-15, 25-22).Hailey Hollar had 24 kills and 24 digs, Kendra Erickson added 48 set assists and 19 digs and Aubrey Steffl had 12 kills and 17 digs.Reagyn Kleinschmidt added 11 kills, Kenley Schiller had four kills and Lauren Baringer added eight digs.On day two the Cougars would top Cleveland (25-20, 25-23) before falling to Redwood Valley (25-22, 25-13) and RTR (25-11, 25-15).Hollar finished with 28 kills and 39 digs, Erickson added 61 set assists, two kills and 13 digs and Kleinschmidt had seven kills.Steffl added 15 kills and 17 digs, Baringer had 18 digs and Schiller had four kills and four digs.---Wabasso topped Springfield in recent Tomahawk Conference girls volleyball action.The Rabbits (15-7) won 3-0 - 25-9, 25-21, 25-23 - over the Tigers to improve to 7-1 in conference play.Alivia Olson had 15 kills, two blocks and was 9-for-9 serving with an ace.Camryn Irlbeck had eight kills and four blocks and Avery Carlson added seven kills, was 19-for-19 serving with an ace and had 14 digs.Sara Carlson finished with 40 set assists and was 11-for-11 serving with three aces, Audren Johnson had 14 digs, Lyla Kittelson had two blocks and two ace serves and Natasha Doubler added nine digs.The Rabbits also fell to RCW in a recent non-conference match-up 3-1 (24-26, 25-16, 15-25, 19-25).Sara Carlson finished with 36 set assists, 13 digs and two ace blocks.Olson had 22 kills and was 12-for-13 serving with an ace and Avery Carlson had seven kills, 15 digs and an ace block.Johnson added 18 digs, Kittelson had two ace blocks and was 24-for-26 serving with four aces, Irlbeck had six blocks (four solo) and Doubler added 13 digs.

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