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| 2005 7A State Tournament
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| West Salem vs. Metamora St. Mary's
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Both teams took a few minutes in game 1 to get into the swing of the first match of the State Tournament. Metamora St. Mary's eventually got up on West Salem 12-6 in game 1. The Warriors #9 Tyli Greathouse served 8 unanswered points to put West Salem up 14-12. #20 for the Lady Falcons came in to serve 4 straight points to give Metamora the win 16-14.
Metamora quickly scored 6 unanswered points to start game 2, but West Salem combined a great team effort and took control of game. The tied the game at 6-6 and never looked back. They eventually won game 2 15-9.
In game 3 Metamor started out hot agian. #4 Brianna Lampe served 8 straight points before the first side out. After West Salem added some points to bring the score to 8-4, #4 Lampe got a perfect set and kill for a sideout. #20 Natalie Marchal had a great block to put Metamora up 14-4, but net violation on the LAdy Falcons gave the ball back to the Warriors. Several sideouts later and #20 Marchal fired a serve over the net for the Lady Falcons win 15-4. #4 Lampe had 10 service points for game 3.
The West Salem Warriors finished the season with a record of 22-2. The Lady Falcons advance to the quarterfinals on Tuesday night with a record of 21-2.
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| Bunker Hill Meissner vs. Jacksonville Our Saviour
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In Match 2 Jacksonville Our Saviour jumped out with 5 unanswered points. #23 Katie Lindsey and #24 Casey Hance dominated the net with blocks and kills. #28 Morgan Eilering served out game 1 with 8 straight service points. The Shamrocks won game 1 15-3.
In game 2 the score seesawed back and forth. #25 Amy Golike came in to serve 3 straight points to put the Patriots up 10-5, but the Shamrocks would not go away. They managed to inch back in until they were up 12-10. The Patriots fought back to tie the match 12-12, but #24 Casey Hance served 3 straight points and 2 aces for the Samrocks and finished out the match 15-12.
Bunker Hill Meissner finished the season 11-6. Jacksonville Our Savior advances to the quarterfinals on Tuesday with a record of 25-1.
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| Peoria Limestone Walters vs. Bloomington Holy Trinity
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In a hard fought match Peoria Limestone Walters and Bloomington Holy Trinity went down to the wire in all three games.
In game 1 the two teams traded points and sideouts. #11 Kylie Beckman scored 5 straight service points for Limestone Walters to give the Rockets a 12-8 lead. But the Saints of Bloomington would not go away. #28 Stephanie Buhrow had two aces to give the Saints a one point lead. The Rockets held on to win game 1 16-14.
In Game two the Saints jumped out to an early 10-2 lead. #28 Buhrow again served 7 straight services points. But after a sideout the Rockets pulled the saints back in to tie the game at 12-12 behind the kills from #19 Amy Thomason. Holy Trinity finished the game with a win on an ace from #35 Caroline Fox.
Game 3 was the reverse of Game 2. Limestone Walters jumped out to an early lead of 13-3. It looked like they were going to close it out, but some great defense by Bloomington brought the Saints back in the game. #30 Elizabeth Swanlund served 6 straight points with 2 aces to give Holy Trinity a 15-14 lead before hitting the net on her next serve. #11 Kylie Beckman served out the match for Limestone Walters.
Bloomington Holy Trinity finished the season with a record of 21-3. Peoria Limestone Walters advances to the quarterfinals with a record of 24-1.
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| Divernon vs. Mendon Unity
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Mendon Unity jumped out to a quick start in game 1 of Match 4 with a 6-4 lead, but the Colts were too much for the Dragons of Divernon. Mendo won the first game 15-8.
In game 2 #4 Lizzy Bowles of Unity scored 5 straight service points to put the Colts up 10-1. The Dragons never seemed to get their feet under them as the Colts went on to win 15-3. #4 Lizzy Bowles and #16 Deanne Donley both had 8 service points for the match.
Divernon finished the season with a record of 16-5. Mendon Unity advances to the quarterfinal with a record of 21-2.
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| Oakland Lake Crest vs. Colchester West Prairie
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In game 1 of match 5 Colchester jumpred out to a quick 3-0 lead. Oakland was able to tie it back up at 4-4. The Cyclones pulled away again to a 10-4 lead. #7 Julie Heltsley served 3 straight points to close the lead 7-10. Oakland Lake Crest came back from a 10-4 deficit behind the hitting of Ashley Dyer and Emma Getche to win 15-12.
In game 2 Oakland put together 15-4 win on strong serving, great setting and persistent attacks to dominate the game.
Colchester West Prairie finished the season with a record of 20-4. Oakland Lake Crest remains undefeated and advances to the quarterfinals Tuesday night with a record of 23-0.
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| Mt. Pulaski vs. St. Elmo
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In Game 1 Mt. Pulaski had 7 unanswered points before St. Elmo got on the board 7-1. Mt. Pulaski swept the rest of the match to win 15-1.
In game 2 the Honeybears had 12 unanswered points. #4 Brooke Merold a sisth grade for Mt. Pulaski had 8 straight service points. #26 Tiffany Parrish finished the game with an ace to give Mt. Pulaski the match 15-2.
St. Elmo finished their season 18-3. Mt. Pulaski advnces to the quarterfinals on Tuesday night with a record of 19-5.
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| Elkhart vs. Gifford
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In Match 6 of the tournament Elkhart took on the Gifford. Game 1 of the match was a game of runs. Elkhart jumped out to an early lead 7-1 but under the scrappy defense of #26 Jessica Asbury and #10 Paige Harms the Eagles were able to tie up the match at 7-7 and then take the lead 12-7. Elkhart battled back behind the serving and setting of #5 Erin Olson. From that point on Elkhart didn't look back and took the first match on an ace by #8 Meghan Moore 15-12.
In Game 2 Elkhart kept the momentum going and #8 more served 7 straight service points. After a couple sideouts #1 Emma Anderson took over and served points 8-11 with 2 aces. #5 Ellen Olson served out game two and ended the match with an ace.
Gifford finishes their season with a record of 16-5. The Elkhart Redbirds advance to the quarterfinals with a record of 25-1.
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| Grand Ridge vs. Cissna Park
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In the final match of the opening round of the 7A State Tournament Cissna Park defeated Grand Ridge in 2 games.
In game 1 with the scored tied 4-4 Cissna Park started to pull away and never looked back. #26 Shelby Young scored 7 services points for the Wildcats who won the first game 15-5.
In game 2 the Wildcats had 10 unaswered points. #23 Lauren Bauer started Cissna Park out with outstanding serving to begin the game. #19 Taylor Wolfe served the last 5 straight points for the match.
Grand Ridge finished the season with a record of 13-8. Cissna Park advances to the Quarterfinals with a record of 16-6.
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| Metamora St. Mary's vs. Jacksonville Our Saviour
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Metamora St. Mary's road the serving of Brianna Lampe and the one-two middle punch at the net from 5-8 Natalie Marchal and 5-8 Ashley Voudrie to earn a hard-fought come-from behind 3-15, 15-7, 15-13 win over Jacksonville Our Saviour. Lampe served for a total of 20 points during the match. Marchal and Voudrie were in opposite rows and led back in the last two games against Our Saviour's front line of 5-9 Casey Hance, 5-7 Sam Heimgart and 5-10 katie Lindsey. St. Mary's advances to the semifinals Wednesday with a 22-2 record. Our Saviour ended at 25-2.
Game 1 -- The big front line of Our Saviour dominated after Brianna Lampe served the first point of the game for St. Mary's. Dot Fitzgerald served five straight points for Our Saviour to give the Shamrocks a 5-1 lead. She recorded three bullet aces during the serving spree. St. Mary's cut the deficit to 5-3 before Sam Heimgartner served five straight points for Our Saviour to move the Shamrocks ahead 11-3. Kate Lindsey finished off the first game serving for Our Saviour with four straight serves for points.
Game 2 -- St. Mary's regrouped from the first game rout and took a 4-1 lead with Brianna Lampe serving. Then Our Saviour cut the deficit to 5-4. St. Mary's Brianna Lampe took over serving after a sideout and the Falcons exploded to run off the final10 straight points and earn the 15-7 turnaround win.
Game 3 -- Like two heavyweight fighters slugging it out in close, the two teams kept one another from making any kind of long run. The score was tied a 4-4, 5-5, 8-8, 11-11 and 13-13, and the lead changed hands four times during the game. Neither team could go ahead by more than a two-point margin after Our Saviour took a 4-1 lead and St. Mary's tied it at 4-4. Our Saviour's Sam Heimgartner served for four straight points late in the game as the Shamrocks came back from an 11-9 deficit to take a 13-11 lead. Heimgartner blasted in a pair of aces right off the bat to tie the score at 11-11. then St. Mary's Natalie Marchal missed a block for a point for Our Saviour and the Shamrocks' Katie Lindsey scored on a power kill from the middle for the 13-11 lead. St. Mary's got the sideout on a spike by Marchal and that set up Marchal as the server. She served for four straight points. On the first serve, Ashley Voudrie was in the front line and scored on aspike. Then Marchal served two aces and Voudrie hammered home a spike after her teammates made two great digs.
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| Peoria Limestone Walters vs. Mendon Unity
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Pesky Peoria Limestone Walters, at many times its own worst enemy, battled taller mendon Unity and came off with a 13-15, 15-2, 15-10 win. Led by setter Kylie Beckman and 5-4 outside hitter Skylar Griggs, Limestone Walters scored when Griggs was in the front tow and struggled when she was in the backline. Mendon Unity made several comebacks during the match, but came up short. Mendon Unity ended the season with a 20-3 record. Limestone Walters advances to the semifinals with a 24-1 record and will face Metamora St. Mary's (22-2) at 3:30 p.m. Wednesday.
Game 1 -- With Kylie Beckman doing the setting and Skylar Griggs the hitting, Limestone Walters roared to a 13-4 lead. During the spurt, Griggs also served for four straight points (from a 5-2 lead to 9-2). Teammate Courtney Hufeld then served for four straight points, including a pair of aces off backline pleyers, to move the Rockets to their 13-4 lead. Back stormed Mendon Unity behind the serving of Lainey Brown (4 straight points) and Lanessa Bohan (5 straight) to cut the deficit to 13-12. During both sets of serves, Limestone Walters was its own worst enemy with poor sets, hitting regularly into the net on spike attempts, and serving into the net. With the score tied at 13-13, Unity's Kendra Smith served an ace and Brown's spike ended the scoring and the comeback.
Game 2 -- Mendon Unity took a 2-0 lead and then the flood gates opened. Courtney Hufeld served for 4 straight points for Limestone Walters and on three of them the combination of setter Kylie Beckman and hitter Skylar Griggs produced three straight points. Then Kaitlyn roos served for nine straight points and the 15-2 margin.
Game 3 -- Mendon Unity jumped to a 5-0 lead and had an apparent point nullified when 5-6 hitter Lainey Brown was called for lifting the ball on a push dink that fell in. That momentum change opened the door for Limestone Walters to run off five straight points and knot the score at 5-5. The score was tied again at 7-7 and 8-8 before the tandem of setter Beckman and hitter Griggs sealed the win. With Beckman serving, and then setting for Griggs on returns by Unity, the Rockets moved ahead 11-8. An ace serve by the Rockets' Kaitlyn roos made it 12-8. Mendon Unity narrowed the deficit to 12-10 before the Rockets' Kylie Beckman served again and for three straight points and the 15-10 margin.
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| Oakland Lake Crest vs. Mt. Pulaski
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In a battle of two highly-skilled volleyball teams, and a battle of perennial powerhouses, Mt. Pulaski got past Oakland Lake Crest 16-14, 15-11 to advance to the semfinals with a 20-5 record. Oakland Lake Crest bowed out at 23-1. Neither team could score in bunches and at no time in either game did one get more than four points ahead of the other, and that happened only once -- when Oakland Lake Crest built an 8-4 lead in the first game.
Game 1 -- Mt. Pulaski chipped away at Oakland Lake Crest's 8-4 lead and eventually tied the game at 10-10 on a spike from Ashley Southerlan. That came with teammate Meghan Stoll serving, and she eventually served for five straight points to put Mt. Pulaski up 14-10. Lake Crest battled back to tie it at 14-14 when Mt. Pulaski's Kyley Wyss hit one long. Mt. Pulaski got the sideout and then Wyss took over serving and both of her blasts from way back of the endline were not returned in three hits for the 16-14 win. Mt. Pulaski's balance countered the front line efforts by the Lake Crest trio of 5-5 Sadie Baird, 5-6 Ashley Dyer and 5-7 Emma Getche.
Game 2 -- Like two heavyweights in the championship bout, Lake Crest and Mt. Pulaski slugged it out in this game -- one in which there were 26 sideouts. Mt. Pulaski took a 6-3 lead with Ellen Foley serving. Trailing 3-2, Foley kept the serve in and Lake Crest kept misfiring on offense. But then the Titans spurted to take a 9-6 lead with 4-10 Hilary Stiff serving. Ellen Foley slammed home a kill for Mt. Pulaski to cut the deficit to 10-9. Lake Crest responded to go ahead 11-9. That set the stage for the Honeybears to run off the last six points of the match. Ellen Foley served for four of them and Ashley Southerlan the final two.
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| Elkhart vs. Cissna Park
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Tiny Elkhart, with a 7-8 grade enrollment of 19, roared into the semifinals with a 15-7, 15-8 win over Cissna Park. The Redbirds, who avenged their only loss of the season with a state series victory over Hartsburg-Emden, now face Mt. Pulaski (20-5) in the second semifinal match Wednesday at 4:45 p.m. Elkhart will take a 26-1 record into that match against a school in the same high school district. They both feed perennial IHSA Class A powerhouse Mt. Pulaski High School. By school district policy they do not schedule each other during the regular season, and this will be their first meeting of the year. Elkhart has a roster of 12 players which includes three fifth graders, two sixth graders and seven seventh graders. The starting lineup is composed of frontliners Meghan Moore (5-1), Ellen Olson (5-4) and Emma Anderson (5-0 sixth grader). The backline includes 4-11 Kate Anderson, 5-1 Morgan Litterly and 5-0 Lindsey Durchholz.
Game 1 -- Cissna Park grabbed a 5-1 lead before Elkhart's mighty mites came storming back behind the hitting of sixth grader Emma Anderson and the serving and setting of 5-4 Ellen Olson, the tallest player on the team. Olson served for two straight points to cut the deficit to 5-3. After a series of sideouts, Morgan Litterly took over service and brought the Redbirds to nine straight points, five on looping ace serves and three others on well-placed spikes from sixth grader Emma Anderson. Cissna Park closed to within 13-7 before Elkhart got the final two points.
Game 2 -- Picking up where they left off in the first game, the Redbirds of Elkhart rolled to a 5-1 lead behind the serving of Meghan Moore (2 aces) and the spiking of Emma Anderson (two kills for points). Cissna Park got back to an 8-4 deficit and then Elkhart kept plugging away on each turn at service to extend the lead to 14-4. Lauren Bauer served three straight points for Cissna Park when Elkhart's defense got sloppy for the only time in the match. The Wildcats added another point to narrow the margin to 14-8 before Elkhart's Emma Anderson ended it with a cross court spike from the left front. Except for those three points late in the second game, Elkhart displayed precise passing, great shot selection and an uncanny ability to get the ball wherever it went on the Redbirds' side of the net.
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| Metamora St. Mary's vs. Peoria Limestone Walters
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In Game 1, the Falcons of Metamora St. Mary's jumped out to an early 9-3 lead behind the excellent serving of Natalie Marchal and Morgan Obery. Peoria Limestone Walters answered with some scrappy team defense and superb setting by Kylie Beckman to pull within 2 at 8-10. Amy Thomason's tough serving gave the Limestone Rocket's 4 straight points and a 112-10 lead. After trading side-outs, the Rocket's Courtney Hufeld served the last three points, including an ace on point 15, to give Limestone Walters a hard fought victory, 15-10.
In game 2, teams traded serval sideouts before a Metamora tip found the floor for point 1. After the first rotation, Limestone Walters scratched out a 6-4 lead. Katlyn Roos went back to serve at 7-5 and extended the Rocket lead to 13-5 with solid defense for Limestone Walters. A Marchal save brought Metamora close at a 10-13 deficit, but after a side-out Skylar Griggs served out the match, finishing with an ace.
Both teams played an excellent match. Metamora St. Mary's moves to the Consolation match. Peoria Limestone Walters moves to the Championship match.
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| Mt. Pulaski vs. Elkhart
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Mt. Pulaski dominated the first game as they came out very sharp. Ashley Southerlan had 3 aces and 7 points to give the Honeybears an early lead. After the teams traded side-outs, Kyley Wyss, frest from dominating the net, served Mt. Pulaski to a 14-0 lead. Emma Thompson's 2 kills gave Elkhart its only points. Then Mt. Pulaski closed out game 1, 15-2. Wyss led the attach with 4 kills for the Honeybears.
Elkhart had trouble early solving Mt. Pulaski's defense, and despite showing great hustle, fell to Mt. Pulaski 15-6. The Redbirds of Elkhart received kills from Emma Anderson, Morgan Litterly, Meghan Moore, and Ellen Olson. Kyley Wyss served the last 6 points for Mt. Pulaski, as the Honeybears advance to the Championship match against Peoria Limestone Walters. The Redbirds of Elkhart move to the Consolation match to meet Metamora St. Mary's. Wyss combined with Ashley Southerlan for the Honeybear offense.
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| Metamora St. Mary's vs. Elkhart
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Metamora jumped out to a quick 5-0 lead behind some solid defense and the play of Natalie Marchal at the net. Elkhart came back to tie game 1 at 5-5 thanks to tough serving by Moran Litterly. Jordynn Peters aced a serve to tie the game at 6-6, but that would be the last point the Redbirds would score as St. Mary's defense, coupled with Lyndsay Hawk's 7 service points and Ashley Voudrie's 4 kills at the net, gave game 1 to St. Mary's.
Elkhart grabbed a quick 5-1 lead behind Ellen Olson's serving. The Redbird lead expanded to 9-2 before Natalie Marchal went to work at the net. A Marchal kill gave St. Mary's a side-out. She proceeded to bury 3 more balls for a 5-9 deficit, as Lyndsay Hawk registered 6 service points in a row. The match was tied at 10-10 when Megan Moore served 2 more Elkhart points. At 12-11, Elkharts' Emma Anderson closed out game 2 with the final 3 points. A very spirited game as Elkhart's all around play overcame 6 kills by Marchal.
In a hotly contested third game, neither team could grab more than a two point lead as both teams showed relentless offense, great diggs, and consistent hustle. Three consecutive service points by Moran Litterly gave Elkhart a slim 12-10 advantage. St. Mary's responded with a point before Lindsey Durchholz pushed the lead to 14-11. After trading side-outs, Meghan Moore served an ace for point 15.
Congratulations to both teams on an incredible match and season.
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| Peoria Limestone Walters vs. Mt. Pulaski
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Three ace serves gave Peoria Limestone Walters a 3-0 lead. Mt. Pulaski came back but had trouble getting any kills against the Rockets relentless pursuit on defense. Aggressive attacking by Skylar Griggs and Amy Thomason gave Peoria Limestone Walters the 15-10 victory.
Tough serving, strong defense, and teamwork all contributed to Peoria Limestone Walters victorious match. Smart setting by Kylie Beckman to Skylar Griggs' aggressive eight match kills helped the Rockets beat powerhouse Mt. Pulaski. Mt. Pulaski's Kyley Wyss had 5 kills in game two, but it was not enough against the Rockets great hustle on defense.
Congratulations to both teams on a fantastic match and season.
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