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Pirates win 2 of 3 matches
The Prairie Lady Pirates won 2 of 3 matches this past week, winning twice at home and losing on the road. On Tuesday, Oct. 2 they swept C.V. in a league match at Cottonwood 25-13, 25-21, 25-9. On Thursday Oct. 4,, they got swept at Genesee 25-27, 17-25, 18-25. Finally on Monday, Oct. 8 they beat Grangeville on Senior Night, 27-25, 25-20 and 25-7. 
The opening game was tied 2-2 when C.V. missed a serve. Alexis Hiler served 2 aces and Ellea Poxleitner scored on a block for a 6-2 lead. At 7-4 Sierra McWilliams scored when her service dig found a hole on the C.V. side. Wemhoff followed with 3 straight aces for an 11-4 lead. At 12-6 Wemhoff scored a kill and Kristyna Krogh followed with a 9-point service run to really break the game open. She had 6 aces with Madison Shears adding 2 kills and Hiler 1. C.V. was able to get back within 10 at 23-13 before McWilliams scored a back row kill and Hiler served an ace to end the game. C.V. came out and competed in the second game as they jumped out to leads of 1-4 and 3-8. After 5 straight sideouts, McWilliams served Prairie into a 10-10 tie with 3 aces plus a back row kill. A kill by Shears tied the game back up at 11 and Prairie didn’t trail again although C.V. tied it at 13 and again at 16. Krogh served an ace for the game-winning point. C.V. scored the first point in the third game but that was their only lead. Krogh scored on a tip to tie it and then served Prairie to a 4-1 lead with a kill and an ace plus a kill by Hope Schwartz. After a trade of sideouts, Shears served Prairie to a 9-2 lead with 2 aces plus a block by Hiler and a tip by Wemhoff. Prairie steadily increased the lead until McWilliams had a 4-point run with 3 aces plus a kill by Shears that made it 19-7. Wemhoff, on the night of her senior project, scored the match-winning kill. For the match Shears had 12 kills, 2 assists and 4 aces. Krogh had 8 kills, 17 assists and 8 aces. Hiler had 8 kills, including a block, 1 assist and 3 kills. Wemhoff had 5 kills and 3 aces. McWilliams had 3 kills and 7 aces. Schwartz had 3 kills and 4 assists. Poxleitner had 1 block. Ashton Landers had 8 assists and 1 ace. Prairie also swept the JV match 25-16, 25-7, 15-9. Anna Kaschmitter served Prairie to a 9-0 lead in the first game with 6 aces plus 2 kills by Ellea Uhlenkott and a dig that scored by Kaschmitter. The two teams plays even the rest of the game with Prairie winning by that early 9 point margin. In the second game it was Delaney Lockett who had the big serving run. Kelly Stubbers and Uhlenkott each had a 3-point run to help Prairie take a 9-4 lead but Lockett took over at 11-6 and served 13 straight points to get to game point. She had 6 aces with Brooklyn Riener and Josie Remacle each adding 3 kills. C.V. stayed with the Pirates in the third game, even leading as late as 6-7. A tip by Remacle sent Trinity Martinez to the service line for 2 aces plus a kill by Remacle for a 10-7 lead. After 2 sideouts Sydnee Bruegeman served an ace with Halle Klapprich picking up a pair of kills to get to game point. C.V. scored the sideout but Stubbers followed with the game-winning kill The Lady Pirates also won all 3 games of the C match. If the two teams remain tied after the league schedule finished on Tuesday, Oct. 9, Prairie would be the #2 seed due to a tiebreaker. Prairie played at Lapwai while Genesee played at Potlatch. Genesee also won the JV match. Those seniors plus junior Landers started the match for Prairie. For Higgins it was her first action since the Border Battle due to a knee injury. Prairie got off to a slow start in the opening game as Grangeville led much of the way. Prairie took there first lead with Hiler serving. She had 2 aces and Poxleitner and Wemhoff each added a kill in a 4-point run.  Prairie
took an 11-7 lead as Landers had a 3-point run with an ace plus a kill
each by Wemhoff and Krogh.
Things got ragged for the Pirates at that point as Grangeville built a 14-21 lead. Prairie was able to close back with 2 at 21-23 before Grangeville scored to get to game point. Grangeville then bricked a serve. With Wemhoff serving Poxleitner scored on a block and Shears added a kill to tie the game at 24-24. Grangeville scored a kill but Shears answered with a kill to tie it again. McWilliams served an ace to give Prairie their first game-point chance. After a Grangeville timeout, Krogh scored on a block to give Prairie the game. A deflated Grangeville team, after coughing up 4 game point chances, fell behind 0-5 to open the second game as Krogh served 3 aces and Hiler added a pair of kills. Higgins then served Prairie to an 11-2 lead with 3 aces plus 2 more kills by Hiler. Prairie eventually led 17-4 before Grangeville started to rally. Grangeville managed to cut the lead all the way down to 3 points at 22-19 before Grangeville got called on hitting a return wide of the antenna. Wemhoff scored a kill to get to game-point. Grangeville scored to make Prairie have to play one more point. On that one Poxleitner was able to save a pass that went wide and Wemhoff managed to get the ball back over the net and just inbounds to end the game. In the third game Grangeville took a 1-3 lead but from that point on it was all Prairie. Higgins served Prairie into the lead with a 4-point run. She had an ace while Schwartz, Hiler and Wemhoff each added a kill to make it 6-3. Hiler and Wemhoff and Shears each had a 4-point service run to get the score to 24-7. At that point coach Julie Schumacher subbed in Poxleitner, who hadn’t served much during the season, to serve match point. Krogh wound up scoring the match-winning kill. For the match Wemhoff, after a slow start, wound up with 15 kills and 2 aces. Poxleitner, who seems to save her best for Grangeville, had 11 kills, which included 2 blocks, plus an assist. Hiler had 10 kills and 7 aces. Higgins had 7 kills and 4 aces. Krogh had 6 kills, including a block, plus 22 assists and 3 aces. Shears had 4 kills. Schwartz had 1 kill and 3 assists. Landers had 17 assists and 1 ace. Delaney Lockett, called up to the varsity for the match, had 3 assists. McWilliams had 1 ace. Prairie is now 12-6 on the season and 8-3 in league play. The JV team won their match 25-18, 25-20, 12-15. Uhlenkott had a 5-point service run to give Prairie their first lead in the opening game with 3 aces plus a kill each by Klapprich and Bruegeman. Grangeville kept it close cut could never even manage to tie, twice getting within 1 point. At 19-17 Prairie finally created some separation with Riener serving 6 straight as Bruegeman dominated at the net with 4 kills. After a sideout, Kaschmitter scored the game-winning point on a free ball. The second game was close early on with Grangeville leading several times early but never by more than a point. Prairie took the lead with Stubbers serving as Remacle scored a pair of kills to make it 12-10. Grangeville came back to retake the lead at 17-18 but then bricked a serve after 4 straight aces. Klapprich served Prairie into the lead with an ace and added 2 more with Stubbers scoring 2 kills and Remacle another for a 24-18 lead. She then missed a serve and Grangeville scored a kill to get within 4. It was then appropriate that Remacle scored the match-winning kill as she had 7 kills during the game. Prairie took the early lead in the final game but Grangeville rallied back to salvage a game.
Alexis Hiler has just spiked the ball on Senior Night against Grangeville. 25-JV at Genesee JV Tourn. 28-Potlatch*, here, won 3 games to 0 6-C.V.*, there, won 3 games to 0
2-C.V.*, here, won 3 games to 0 4-Genesee*, here, 5:00, C/JV/V, lost 0 games to 3 8-Grangeville, here, 5:00, C/JV/V, won 3 games to 0 9-Lapwai*, there, lost 2 games to 3, details next week 11-Highland, there, C/JV/V, 5 p.m. 13-17-District at LCSC, play C.V. at 1 p.m. Saturday Oct. 13. Play again at 4 p.m. with win, 7 p.m. with loss. 18-Regional Play-in at Post Falls 20-State Play-In at Grangeville 26-27-State at Skyview High, Nampa *League Game PIRATES JR. HIGH GIRLS BASKERBALL |
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