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| Waiting for their medals tonight. |
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| Tessa Halvorson setting up her attackers in game one. |
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| Coach Weller is shown giving instructions in the middle of game two tonight. |
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| Becca destroyed the block attempt in this photo from early in game three. |
The 6th-ranked Jaguars volleyball team smoked Royalton 25 to 10 in game four to win the school's 12th sub-section title in school history. They were sluggish to start game one and that appeared again in game three when they fell 25-23 after holding a 23-20 lead. Game two was no problem, though, when they won 25-13 (25-14 in game one).
The Jaguars (26-7 overall) picked up the pace in game four after trailing 3-2 and went on a smoking hot 9-0 run that removed every last bit of momentum and energy that Royalton (17-11-1) brought in their short 20-minute drive to Pierz. The Jaguars then led 18-6 and 21-8 before earning four of the last 6 points scored in the match.
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| Royalton was in plenty of trouble when reinforcements showed up!! Loved that crowd tonight. |
Up next: red-HOT Nevis, who lit up Braham 3-0 in the SS-North championship earlier tonight. The Section 5A championship match will be held at 7:00pm in Pierz on Saturday night. The Bombers, who entered the match 22-5 overall, simply did not have it tonight. I was actually pretty shocked that Nevis took them apart like they did. Braham went 12-0 in the Great River Conference, which shows the type of competition in eastern Minnesota. (Sorry) Nevis is 20-9-2 overall. *Game scores in the Sub-Section 5A-North championship were 25-15, 25-14, 25-14.
Below, the end of tonight's exciting match and part of the post-match celebration!
**NOW we turn our attention to tomorrow night!!! Time to head home. We have the BIGGEST football game in school history coming up. It's gonna be GREAT! I will see you there hopefully.
Signing off until after 11:30.
Area volleyball playoff scores on October 31:
Sauk Centre 3, Melrose Area 0 (Dutchmen put up little resistance tonight)
Dassel-Cokato 3, Rocori 0
Maple Lake 3, DeLaSalle 2 (Irish are 22-8-1 overall)
Morris Area/Chokio-Alberta 3, New London-Spicer 0
Marshall Area 3, Jackson County Central 1
Minneota 3, Central MN Christian 0
Henning 3, Battle Lake 0
BOLD 3, Buffalo Lake-Hector-Stewart 0
Tracy-Milroy-Balaton 3, Murray County Central 0
