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Pirates out after 2 matches at State
The Prairie Lady Pirates first appearance at State since 2003 didn’t last very long as they were ousted in two matches Friday, Oct. 28 at the LCSC Activity Center in Lewiston. In the first round they faced District 3 champion Horseshoe Bend, who was undefeated coming into the tournament, and lost 25-18, 8-25, 21-25, 16-25. Later on Friday they faced Hagerman and were eliminated 25-27, 9-25, 25-17, 24-26.  within
15-16 on a kill by Monica Lustig. Riener then served 8 straight points
to push Prairie to a 23-16 lead. She had 4 aces while Sam Poxleitner added
3 kills and Tanna Schlader scored another on what amounted to a bad pass
on her part.
The Mustangs finally scored the sideout and then added an ace service. On the next serve though Riener’s service dig found the floor on the Mustangs side for a kill and Stephanie Gimmeson served up an ace for the game-winner. As good as Prairie looked in that 11-2 finish of the first game, they looked that bad in the second game. Hitting errors, setting errors, service errors, you name it, as the Mustangs took leads of 0-3, 3-13 and 4-20 on the way to an easy win. It’s highly likely if they hadn’t let Horseshoe Bend dominate that second game, they would’ve been the one to face Troy on Saturday morning. The third game was a battle back and forth with neither team building much of an advantage until the very end. Prairie lead at 8-5 and 15-12 but the Mustangs came back to take the lead each time. Horseshoe Bend led 19-21 when Lustig scored a kill for a sideout and MeShel Rad followed with a kill to tie the game. Horseshoe Bend then called a timeout and followed that with a sideout. They then served out the game to take a 2 games to 1 lead. In game 4 the Mustangs jumped out to a 0-4 lead but then bricked a served and Megan Sigler was able to serve Prairie back into the game with 4 straight points on an ace with Rad adding a kill and 2 blocks for a 5-4 lead. It stayed closed until Horseshoe Bend scored a sideout to take the lead for good at 11-12. They scored the next 4 points to take a 5-point lead and after trading sideouts pushed the lead to 7 at 12-19. Prairie couldn’t get any closer than 5 at 15-20 the rest of the way as Horseshoe Bend held on to win the game and the match. Lustig had 12 kills, 14 assists and an ace in the match. Rad had 12 kills including 3 stuffs plus 2 aces. Poxleitner had 8 kills. Sigler had 6 kills, 22 assists and 2 aces. Schlader had 5 kills, 2 assists and 3 aces. Tyler Workman had 4 kills. Riener had 2 kills and 5 aces. Gimmeson had 2 aces. Hagerman then bricked a served and Rad served Prairie back into it. She had 4 aces in a 6 points run with Workman and Schlader each adding a kill as Prairie took a 7-6 lead. A Hagerman timeout broke Rad’s service rhythm and her next serve went long. Prairie took another brief lead at 13-12 but Hagerman took the lead back and led 14-19 and 18-24.  Workman
scored a kill to stave off game point and Riener then served an ace with
2 kills by Poxleitner and a kill each by Sigler and Rad enabling Prairie
to tie the game at 24-24. At that point Prairie all of a sudden couldn’t
serve anymore as Riener’s next serve went into the net. Rad scored a kill
to re-tie the game at 25 but Gimmeson followed with another serve into
the net and Hagerman was able to score the game-winning point.
Hagerman again jumped out to a big early lead, this time at 0-7, but this time Prairie didn’t bounce back as they repeated their second game effort from their first match of the day. In the third game Prairie finally was able to score first as Lustig opened the scoring with a kill. After trading sideouts Prairie was able to take the lead as Rad served 2 aces and Lustig stuffed a Hagerman spike attempt. Hagerman was able to cut the lead to 5-4 but Prairie answered by pushing the lead out to 11-5 on 2 aces by Lustig. Two aces by Sigler helped push the lead to 19-10. Hagerman pulled back within 6 at 21-15 but an ace by Schlader and a kill by Poxleitner followed by an ace by Lustig enabled Prairie to win the game and get back into the match. In game 4 Prairie took a 2-0 lead on a kill each by Sigler and Rad and pushed it to 5-1 on a Rad kill for a sideout and 2 aces from Rad. An ace by Gimmeson followed by a kill by Schlader had Prairie up 13-6 but the Pirates couldn’t hold it as Hagerman was able to come back and tie the game at 16-16. Prairie answered with 4 straight on a kill by Schlader, 2 kills by Poxleitner and an ace by Schlader to make it 20-16. Hagerman answered again though and came back to take the lead at 22-23. A kill by Poxleitner tied it at 23 but Hagerman scored a kill to get to match point. They gave Prairie new life with a bricked served that tied it at 24 but Hagerman scored another kill for the sideout and then scored the match-winning point. For the match Schlader had 12 kills and 3 aces. Poxleitner also had 12 kills. Rad had 10 kills including 2 blocks and 9 aces. Workman had 6 kills including a stuff. Sigler had 4 kills, 2 aces and 22 assists. Lustig had 3 kills including a stuff, 5 aces and 15 assists. Riener had 3 aces and Gimmeson had a kill and 2 aces. With the losses Prairie ends the season with a 17-13 record.
Theresa Lustig was presented with the sportsmanship t-shirt for Prairie at the State Volleyball Tournament. The team and coaches vote on who is to received the award. Photo by Loretta Riener. PIRATES GIRLS VOLLEYBALL SCHEDULE FOR 2011 27-Genesee JV Tournament, TBA 30-Tri-match here-vs. Summit, 5 p.m.; vs. Genesee, 8 p.m. Lost to Genesee 0-3, beat Summit 3-1, details next week. 6-Lapwai, there, won 3-2 8-Troy, there, lost 0-3 10-Kendrick Tournament, won 2, lost 2 - beat Orofino 2-1, lost to Summit 0-2, beat C.V. 2-1, lost to Orofino 0-2 in 3rd place match 13-Kamiah, here, lost 0-3 15-Tri-match at Grangeville/Cascade, lost to Cascade 0-2, beat Grangeville 3-1 19-Kendrick, here, won 3-0 24-Clarkston Tournament, TBA, won 4 of 15 games played, Idaho defeated Washington 39-36 27-Highland, here, won 3-0 29-Deary, here, won 3-0 4-Tri-match here, vs. Potlatch, vs. Grangeville, beat Potlatch 3-0, beat Grangeville 3-0 6-CV, Kamiah, V only, 5 p.m., beat C.V. 3-0, lost to Kamiah 2-3 11-Timberline, here, won 3-0 15, 17, 19-District at LCSC--beat C.V. 3-1, lost to Troy 2-3, beat Kendrick 3-1, beat Lapwai 3-1, third at District, qualify for State. 28-29-State at Lewiston, Lost to Horsehoe Bend 1-3, lost to Hagerman 1-3 PIRATES GIRLS BASKETBALL SCHEDULE FOR 2011-12 *indicates league game 17-C.V, here 18-Kendrick, there 22-Troy, there 28-Timberline, here 29-Potlatch, here* 2-Grangeville, hhere, Idaho County Shootout 6-C.V., there* 8-Genesee, there* 10-Kamiah, there 12-Troy, here* 16-Grangeville, there 6-Lapwai, there* 10-Deary, there* 13-Nezperce, there 19-Kendrick, here* 20-Kamiah, here 24-Summit, here Jan. 30, Feb 1, 3, 6 , 8 & 10-District at LCSC Feb. 11-State Play-In game at St. Maries Feb. 16-18-State at Nampa |
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