Highmore-Harrold’s Brooke Palmer plays a volley as teammate Morgan McCloud looks on during a 281 Conference Tournament match on Saturday in Wolsey. Rebecca Huizenga led Hitchcock-Tulare with six kills on 12 of 17 hitting. Regan Rink led the Lady Vikings hitting with four kills and also added three blocks. JVC moves to 8-13 with excellent serving in the match, including five aces on 10 of 11 serving from Lily Hofer and four aces from Colleen Wipf on a perfect 9 of 9 serving day. Set scores for the Lady Vikings were 25-23 and 25-16. The James Valley Christian Lady Vikings swept the Hitchcock-Tulare Lady Patriots to earn third place. The Spartans (15-5) were led by Avery Orth with five kills on 22 of 26 hitting as well as 10 digs and a block in the championship match. Mallory Miller had three blocks for Wolsey-Wessington and added eight kills on 20 of 20 hitting while also putting down two aces on 6 of 7 serving. Boomsma also had eight digs and a pair of aces on 8 of 10 serving.

Mya Boomsma led the attack for the Lady Warbirds, who finish the day 16-3, with nine kills on 15 of 17 hitting. The Lady Warbirds swept their way to the championship with a resounding victory over the Wessington Springs Trojans by set scores of 25-13 and 25-13. Dowling had four blocks and three kills.WOLSEY – The fifth-ranked Wolsey-Wessington Warbirds won the 281 Conference volleyball tournament Saturday in Wolsey. Brenna Held led the Lady Vikings with six kills and 19 digs. James Valley Christian finished the season with a record of 12-14. The Lady Warbirds will host Castlewood, who defeated Hitchcock-Tulare, on Thursday in Wolsey. Giyahna Richmond was strong at the net defensively with four blocks while Lainey Uttecht led the defense with 18 digs. Kaylie Robinson nailed a kill out of the break for JVC to make it 23-20, but a pair of Lady Viking hitting errors gave the Lady Warbirds the 25-20 victory and the 3-0 match sweep.īoomsma led the Lady Warbirds (26-4) with 18 kills on the night while Williams added 9. Her team responded out of the break as Williams nailed a kill and Alyssa Hiles scored her second service ace of the evening, drawing a timeout from the visitors. The Lady Warbirds stood with a 21-15 lead before a Dowling kill, a Lily Hofer kill, and a pair of W-W hitting errors brought the score to 21-19 and forced the first timeout from Lady Warbird coach Lindy Uttecht. The third set continued with aggressive hitting on both sides leading to 17 combined hitting errors in the set between the clubs. The lead was 7-2 before the Lady Vikings made their first run. The Lady Warbirds started slow in the first two sets but came out firing in the third as Boomsma tallied four kills of W-W’s first five points. The Lady Vikings didn’t go away, however, and a Lady Warbird service error, a Josie Dowling kill, a W-W hitting error, and a Karilyn Wieting ace brought the score to 24-20 before Taylor Horn put back the final kill to win the second set, 25-20. The two teams traded points until 10-10, when the home team went on a run to make it 16-10 behind big swings from Leah Williams that led to four kills in the set for her and consistently left the JVC defense scrambling to recover position. The second set was dominated by long rallies by both squads and aggressive hitting by Wolsey-Wessington that often led to points for JVC, as the Lady Warbirds committed eight hitting errors in the set. 23, which the Lady Warbirds won 3-1, the Lady Vikings weren’t going to go away easily. However, much like the first meeting between the clubs on Sept.

Once the Lady ‘birds got to 18-10, Mya Boomsma took over for W-W, nailing five of the remaining points with kills to close out the frame 25-12, giving her six kills and a pair of aces in a strong first set. The Lady Warbirds would storm back with a balanced hitting attack that forced a number of JVC attacking errors by keeping the Lady Vikings off-balance. The first set opened with a pair of service aces from JVC’s Autumn Gross to put the Lady Vikings up 2-0 off the bat.

Set scores for the Lady Warbirds were 25-12, 25-20, and 25-20. WOLSEY – The Wolsey-Wessington Lady Warbirds had to work hard to earn the final two sets, but they did come away with a sweep over the James Valley Christian Lady Vikings in Region 3B action Tuesday night in Wolsey.

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