Today is Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Whitewater Volleyball defeated Evansville last night to improve to 2-1 in Rock Valley conference play and 11-10 overall. The match last night went 5 sets with the Whippets finishing on top with the scores of 25-22, 21-25, 25-13, 21-25 and 15-10.
The team played a very balanced game offensively and served aggressively. The Whippets compiled a total of 17 serving aces, 37 kills, 3 blocks, 33 assists, and 58 digs.
Saturday the Whitewater Varsity and JV2 head to Pewaukee for a very competitive tournament. The Whippets are looking forward to continuing with the momentum they have built from last weekend at the Parker Invite and the great conference play they had this week.
Article Submitted by Coach Kathy Bullis
By Tim Nelson, Coach
A shorthanded Whippets team fell to McFarland 1-6, in a series of very close matches.
I was very pleased with how we played this evening. We were without half of our 3 doubles team and our 4 singles player. McFarland is definitely a top-notch team and we pushed them in almost every spot. Their 1 singles player is a returning state qualifier and Cassidy pushed her to a third set tiebreaker. At three singles, Tessa has been fighting a cold all week, yet still pushed her player who will be one of the top seeds in the conference tournament to a 3rd set tiebreaker.
Doubles also saw some tight matches. At two doubles, Melanie and Mariana played one of their best matches all year and were in control the whole way. At both 1 and 3 doubles we played right with them the entire way, but just couldn’t quite get over the top losing 6-4, 6-4.
Next Thursday, at UWW and WHS, the Rock Valley Conference Tournament will take place beginning at 3pm.
Results:
1S Cassidy Laue lost Michelle Butcher 6-2, 2-6, 10-6
2S Kaitlyn Partoll lost Aeryn Olson 6-0, 6-1
3S Tessa Papcke lost Laura Maudlin 6-4, 4-6, 10-3
4S Crystal Chan lost Lexi Mazzara 6-0, 6-1
1D Odessa Sonn lost Grace Henes 6-4, 6-4
Sophie Olson Greta Corcoran
2D Melanie Reyes beat Sadie Bartzen 6-2, 6-1
Mariana Cano Sarah Kopp
3D Katelyn Lashley lost Lauren Shields 6-4, 6-4
Anisa Dauti Kimiya Pournik
Whippet harriers were led at the Marshall Invitational by Trenten Zahn and Gio Anello. These two finished in third and sixth with impressive times of 16:54 and 17:10. Cooper Hammond was the team’s third runner and placed 30th by dropping nearly a full minute off his best time this year. Also grinding out some great performances on the varsity team were Peter Zimdars, Will Hofmann, CJ Tomomitsu and Jack Mayer. The team finished in 4th place overall out of 12 teams.The JV team was led by Mason West placing 14th overall with a time of 20:34 and not far behind were Marcus DePorter and Evan Schepp. Both boys finished together in 25th and 26th place. Noteworthy races were also completed by Broderick Frye and Andrew Rollette.
The girls were led by Olive Coburn and Gwen Truesdale. They are hitting their stride and push each other well in races and finished with the same time of 24:47, good enough for 48th and 49th. Also crushing their race and making a huge drops in time were Sophie Walton, Sabrina Bomberg and Jenna Lee. The varsity girls placed 11th with 279 points. The JV team was led by Nikole Pelot placing 30th with a time of 28:12. Having stand out races in this field were Jeanette Falcon and Emma Weigel.
Next up for the Whippets is the Racine Saint Catherine’s Invitational at UW-Parkside on Saturday.
Attached pictured is Trenten Zahn (L) and Gio Annello (R), medal winners.
Full Results: https://www.athletic.net/CrossCountry/Results/Meet.aspx?Meet=162731&show=all
From Coach Tim Nelson
Whitewater celebrated senior night with a 5-2 victory on Sept. 17 over Edgerton. The win puts the Whippets at 14-7 on the year.
Overall, I was pleased with our effort. Our footwork was a little better this evening and we didn’t try and overdo things. Cassidy Laue played well this evening. She was down most of the first set but at 4-5 in the first set, she really started picking her game up and won the next three to take the first set and then kept it going in the second. Tessa and Josie at 3 and 4 singles were steady throughout the evening. Our 1 and 2 doubles teams were both pretty solid. They each had a game or two when they were a little flat, but were able to turn things around right away so that the matches were never in doubt.
We finish up the conference season at McFarland on Thursday evening.
Results:
1S Cassidy Laue beat Kelsey Lien 7-5, 6-2
2S Kaitlyn Partoll lost Sylvia Fox 6-0, 6-2
3S Tessa Papcke beat Ashley Ulset 6-2, 6-1
4S Josie Hintz beat Kylee Houfe 6-4, 6-1
1D Odessa Sonn beat Elizabeth Oetzel 6-1, 6-2
Sophie Olson Taylor Shaw
2D Melanie Reyes beat Johanna Rusch 6-2, 6-2
Mariana Cano Jordan Bauer
3D Katelyn Lashley lost Isabella Gilmour 6-3, 7-6(4)
Emily Scherer Karlye Smrecek
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