Career Highs Lead To 5-Set Win
Three players posted career high stat totals in helping Concordia outlast St. Catherine 3-2.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (10/15/15)—A pair of 3-0 runs in the fifth set and three players posting career-high stat totals helped Concordia outlast St. Catherine 3-2 (25-18, 22-25, 25-22, 25-27, 15-8).
The win keeps the Cobbers near the top of the MIAC standings. Concordia is now 5-2 in league play and in a two-way tie for fourth place. CC is only one loss behind second place. The Cobbers are now 12-5 on the season. The 12 wins match the total from last season when they went 12-12.
The key for Concordia was its offense where they had five players record double-digit kill totals. The Cobbers finished with 73 winners as compared to only 51 for the Wildcats. CC also hit above .225 in three of the five sets including a .273 mark in the fifth, and deciding, set.
Senior Olivia Wangensteen led all players with 19 kills for the night. It marks the fourth time in the last five matches she has had at least 11 kills. Wangensteen also hit .151 and had 25 digs to post her second straight double-double and seventh of the season.
Anna Skow-Anderson, Kathleen Lippert, Heather Beaner and Haley Cuppett combined for 43 of the team's 73 kills. Skow-Anderson had a season-high 12 kills. She had a match-high .355 attack percentage as she earned her fifth double-digit kill total of the season.
Lippert also had a season-high kill total. She came away with 11 winners and also added four blocks. Beaner and Cuppett both had 10 kills each. Beaner hit .280 while Cuppett also recorded four blocks for her career-high kill total.
Junior Jena Klaphake was the quarterback of the offense for most of the night and played a high level. She came away with a career-high 43 assists.
Concordia's defense came up big when it needed to. The Cobbers held St. Catherine to a .000 attack percentage in the fifth set.
Korbyn Ross recorded a career-high in digs. She finished with 32 digs and also tied a career-high with three service aces.
WHAT'S NEXT: The Cobbers will stay on the road and head farther west to compete in the Sandy Schumacher Memorial Tournament held at Wis.-Eau Claire on Friday and Saturday. Concordia will face the host Blugolds and Wis.-Stout on Friday and then square off against Wis.-River Falls and St. Scholastica on Saturday.