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ORCS bounces back with sweep of Glenburn

The Our Redeemer’s Christian School volleyball team bounced back from a rare loss Tuesday night with a three-game sweep of Glenburn at Our Redeemer’s Christian School.

The Knights won 25-8, 25-12, 25-5.

Senior Morgan Olson paced ORCS with 20 assists, nine aces, and eight digs. ORCS also got eight kills from senior Makayla Gartner and eight digs each from senior Lauren Hendrickson and junior Ryleigh Popinga.

Sierra Hansen had three kills and two blocks in the loss for Glenburn, while Raylea Folstad added 15 digs.

The Knights will be at Des Lacs-Burlington on Tuesday.

Bad weather causes MHS cancellations

The Minot High School boys tennis and soccer team had to cancel their home matches Thursday against Legacy and Bismarck Century, respectively, due to rainy conditions. Tennis has been rescheduled to be played at 4 p.m. on Sept. 23 at Hammond Park and the soccer game has been moved to 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 26 at the Optimist Soccer Complex.

Minot State volleyball

falls in first conference match

MOORHEAD, Minn. – The Minot State University volleyball team suffered a 3-0 (15-25, 18-25, 20-25) loss to MSU Moorhead on Thursday evening.

The Beavers played well after timeouts taken by head coach Ben Kaszeta in his team’s first NSIC match of the season. Trailing 7-14 in the first set his team went on a 5-0 run to move the score to 12-14 forcing the Dragons to take their first time out of the night.

Minot State trailed 7-11 when Kaszeta decided to take a timeout in the second set. His team then came out and outscored their opponent 4-1 to close the gap to just one point.

Despite losing both of those sets in the end, Kaszeta saw some things he liked.

“We looked like freshmen out of the gate,” Kaszeta said. “We talked in the timeouts about slowing things down and communicating. After that we came out and played well.”

The Beavers and Dragons traded leads four times in the third set before MSU Moorhead took over after the set was tied 13-13 to take a 14-20 lead. Minot State came back within three at 18-21, but ultimately lost the set 20-25.

“We will learn to sustain that energy and convert better in the serve receive,” Kaszeta said. “In game three we had our best game on that end, being aggressive on the serve receive. Brileigh Boyce played in her first match of the season and got three points so I was happy with her level of play coming off of an injury.”

The Beavers were led by freshman Shelby Spuller on offense with 12.5 points coming from 11 kills and two blocks. Seniors Janelle Nagy and Cindy Pelo led the team with 14 assists and 17 digs, respectively. Shae Pedersen added to the MSU dig total with 12 of her own.

Minot State will host its first two home games Friday against No. 11 Northern State at 7 p.m. and Sunday against Briercrest at 11 a.m. Both games will be played at the MSU Dome.

– MSU Athletics

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