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EMERSON - The Hartington-Newcastle volleyball season came to an abrupt halt in a loss in the opening round of the D1-4 Subdistrict Tournament Oct. 27 with a 25-17, 25-14 and 25-10 loss to Lyons-Decatur Northeast.
Final statistics were not available at press time. A complete statistical recount of the subdistrict game will be in next week’s Cedar County News.
The Lady ‘Cats showed signs of life throughout the match but the Lady Cougars snuffed out any hope with the 25-10 third-set win.
HNS hung around early in set two and earned back-to-back points on a kill off of the LDNE block and an ace serve by Ella Eickhoff but Lyons-Decatur would rip off eight of the next nine points to take a 20-7 lead.
The lead grew to 22-8 before a Lainey Morten block made it 22-10.
A Nora Lange winner and an Eickhoff block sandwiched around a couple of Lady Cougar errors and the score was 24-14, but LDNE took the set and went up 2-0 in the match.
Things went from bad to worse in the final set and LDNE walked away with the win to advance in the tournament.
On Oct. 21 the Lady Wildcats defeated Neiligh-Oakdale in a consolation match of the Greater Northeast Activities Conference Tournament.
Hartington-Newcastle got offensive in the contest with Eickhoff leading the attack with 16 kills.
She would go on to record a double-double with 10 digs and she also successfully passed on 21 serves in serve receiving.
Vayda Lippert also recorded a double-double with 20 set assists and 15 digs and also rifled seven ace serves. Karissa Bruning had nine kills, Lange hammered eight winners in the match and Lippert slammed seven.
Justyce Sohl posted 14 digs and 21 good passes off of the Lady Warrior serve.
Eickhoff, Lange and Bruning each recorded a couple of blocks at the net.
Lyons-Decatur NE 25 25 25 Hartington-Newcastle 17 14 10.
Hartington-Newcastle defeated Neligh-Oakdale (5-24) 25-18, 30-28, 25-23, 25-20 . k=Kills, a=Ace Serves, b=Blocks, d=Digs, s=Set Assists, r=Serves Received.
HARTINGTON-NEWCASTLE: Justyce Sohl 3k, 1a, 14d, 2s, 21r; Lainey Morten
4a, 1b, 6d, 16s; Vayda Lippert 7k, 7a, 1b,
15d, 20s, 9r; Ella Eickhoff 16k, 1a, 2b, 10d,
2s, 21r; Ella Kelly 1d; Nora Lange 8k, 2b,
9d, 1s, 3r; Karissa Bruning 9k, 1a, 2b, 4d; Hadley Grutsch 5d, 16r.
CLASS D1 VOLLEYBALL POWER POINTS
School Record Points Avg
1 Amherst 23-5 46.1429
2 Overton 25-4 45.7241
3 Morrill 24-3 45.2222
4 Central Valley 25-5 44.9667
5 EMF 23-5 44.7500
6 Shelton 24-5 44.6552
7 Ansley-Litchfield 23-6 44.5172
8 Southwest 26-5 44.3548
9 MayWd-Hayes 23-8 44.1935
10 Sutton 19-12 44.0968
11 Elgin/Pope John 20-10 44.0000
12 Cross County 24-8 43.8438
13 Tri County NE 23-5 43.7857
14 Riverside 25-4 43.6207
15 Neb. City Lourdes19-10 43.5517
16 Howells-Dodge 16-13 43.0690
17 Kenesaw 23-7 43.0000
18 Osceola 22-9 42.9032
19 Brady 19-7 42.7308
20 Tri County 18-14 42.5938
21 Wauneta-Palisde 19-11 42.4333
22 Grand Island Luth 20-8 42.0000
23 Cedar Catholic 12-18 41.8667
24 Bloomfield 18-9 41.7778
25 Plainview 18-11 41.6207
26 Arapahoe 16-10 41.5000
27 Burwell 17-11 41.4643
