Oakes, ND (NewsDakota.com) – The District 5 Volleyball Tournament began on Thursday October 26th. The Results will be posted below as the games end.
Game 1: Carrington 3 – 0 Griggs-Midkota
Madison Johnson had a match high 11 kills to help the Carrington Cardinals defeat the Titans of Griggs/Midkota 3-0. The GM Titans kept things close during the first two sets, but in the third and final set, the Cardinals were in control for most of it and picked up the opening match victory. Tournament officials decided to play the match in Glenfield due to bad weather across the region. The fourth seeded Cardinals will now take on the number one overall seed of the tournament the Edgeley/Kulm/Montpelier Rebels in the first semifinal Friday night at approximately 5:30pm.
Game 2: LaMoure-LM 3 – 0 Barnes County North (25-13, 25-13, 25-7)
The Loboes controlled all aspects of play against the Bison picking up commanding set victory upon commanding set victory. The Loboes started out running in set 1 to go up 13-3 early. They would continue to build that lead to 18-6. BCN would battle back a bit to get it to 20-11 but the Loboes would put a stop to it winning 25-13. BCN would take an early lead in set 2 and keep it within 5 till 15-10 but then LaMoure-LM went on a 6-1 run and ended up winning 25-13. The final set was all Loboes as they took the lead early and never turned back winning 25-7.
LaMoure now play Oakes in the semis while BCN goes to an elimination game tomorrow against Ellendale.
Game 3: Oakes 3 – 1 Ellendale (25-20, 25-23, 23-25, 25-14)
The final game of the night was a 4 set brawl between the Tornadoes and the Cardinals. As each set had at least 4 lead changes and 5 ties. Set 1 saw both teams battling back and forth as Ellendale saw early success building a 10-5 lead before Oakes battled back to tie it at 12-12. Oakes would take the lead at 14-13. The lead would flip-flop again before oakes took it for good at 17-16 and take the set 25-20. Set two was more of the same with 8 ties and 5 lead change all the way to 13-13 thats when Oakes would take the lead and not give it up and win the set after 4 set points 25-23. Set 3 saw both teams make comebacks. Oakes would come back from a 9-3 deficit to tie it at 10-10 and take a 18-13 lead before the Cards came back and tied it 18-18 and took a 20-18. The game would be tied again at 21-21, 22-22, and 23-23 before Ellendale won it 25-23. Set 4 saw the Tornadoes find another gear and take the game home. They would take the lead at 8-7 and bring the game home from their winning 25-14.
The Tornadoes will now take on LaMoure-LM in the Semis while Ellendale will play BCN in an Elimination Game.
Tomorrows Schedule:
Game 1 (Elimination): Ellendale vs BCN – 4:00 PM
Game 2 (Semifinal): EKM vs Carrington – 25 mins after game 1
Game 3 (Semifinal): LLM vs Oakes – 25 mins after game 2