Lady Tigers wrap up volleyball season with tournaments
The Osmond Lady Tiger volleyball team was very busy the past couple of weeks, with the Pierce County tournament on Oct. 15, conference games Oct. 17-19 and subdistricts on Oct. 26. Coach Tiffany Rice provided the following accounts of those competitions.
Pierce County Tournament
RANDOLPH — On Thursday, Oct. 15, the Lady Tigers traveled to Randolph for the annual Pierce County Tournament. The towns participating in the tournament include Osmond, Pierce, Plainview and Randolph.
To start off the night for the Lady Tigers, they took on the Pierce Lady Bluejays. The Lady Tigers matched well against the Bluejays, but were at a height disadvantage, which allowed for Pierce to put a block up against Osmond's aggressive hitters, limiting the Lady Tigers' ability to tally up kills.
The Lady Tigers fought hard against the Bluejays, but came up short, losing in two sets with scores of 20-25 and 16-25. Individual stats from this game are as follows: Macy Aschoff: 6 kills, 2 digs; Grace Gansebom: 2 kills, 10 assists, 6 digs; Kiera Moes: 2 kills, 1 assist, 3 digs; Lillie Gansebom: 3 aces, 2 digs; Bailey Schmit: 1 ace, 1 kill, 2 assists, 2 digs; Elisa Herrera: 5 digs; Cali Gutz: 4 kills.
After the Pierce game, the Lady Tigers went head-to-head against Randolph, losing in two sets with scores of 18-25 and 18-25. During this game, the Lady Tigers struggled at the serving line but did an exceptional job digging the ball and with their serve receiving. The Lady Tigers controlled the game at many times throughout the game, but Randolph fought equally as hard and took the win.
Individual stats for this game are as follows: Grace Gansebom: 1 ace, 16 assists, and 5 digs; Lillie Gansebom: 1 ace, 2 kills, 1 assist, 7 digs; Bailey Schmit: 7 kills, 3 digs; Kiera Moes: 1 kill, 1 dig; Macy Aschoff: 8 kills, 1 assist, 6 digs; Cali Gutz: 1 kill, 2 digs; Elisa Herrera: 10 digs.
Conference Tournament
LAUREL — On Saturday, Oct. 17, the Lady Tigers traveled to Laurel-Concord for pool play for the Lewis and Clark Conference Tournament. In Osmond's pool was Laurel-Concord-Coleridge (LCC) and Bloomfield. To start off the pool play, the Lady Tigers took on the LCC Bears.
"As a coach, I can say this was one of my favorite games that our girls played this year," Coach Rice said. "The passion and determination that was demonstrated on the court during this game was amazing."
The Lady Tigers fought hard until the end of each set, but came up short with scores of 23-25 and 23-25. The Lady Tigers put up some good blocks on the Bears, and tallied 53 digs, and 19 kills during the game.
Individual stats for this game are as follows: Grace Gansebom: 1 solo block, 17 assists, 12 digs; Elisa Herrera: 1 ace, 19 digs; Kiera Moes: 6 kills, 1 dig; Macy Aschoff: 1 ace, 9 kills, 5 digs; Bailey Schmit: 1 ace, 3 kills, 12 digs; Lillie Gansebom: 4 digs; Cali Gutz: 1 kill.
In the next game, the Osmond took on the Bloomfield Bees. The Lady Tigers carried over their intensity from their first game and had the determination to defeat the Bees from their loss to them earlier in the season and were successful, defeating them in two sets with scores of 25-14 and 25-23.
The Lady Tigers passed the ball well, which allowed the setter to set the ball up for some great hits. The Lady Tigers tallied 27 assists and 28 digs, and improved their hitting and serving percentage from previous games.
The individual stats for this game are as follows: Lillie Gansebom: 2 kills, 1 assist, 2 digs; Grace Gansebom: 2 aces, 2 kills, 24 assists, 4 digs; Kiera Moes: 6 kills, 4 digs; Macy Aschoff: 5 kills, 5 digs; Bailey Schmit: 1 ace, 10 kills, 7 digs; Elisa Herrera: 2 assists, 6 digs; Cali Gutz: 3 kills.
BLOOMFIELD — On Monday, Oct. 19, the Lady Tigers traveled to Bloomfield to go head-to-head with the Plainview Pirates for their last conference game. The Lady Tigers knew that this would be a game that Plainview would want to win, as Osmond had defeated them once earlier in the season.
The Lady Tigers came out strong and played hard and won in three sets with scores 25-20, 25-19, 25- 13. The Lady Tigers had a fantastic night at the serving line in which they recorded 11 ace serves.
Individual stats from this game are as follows: Macy Aschoff: 6 aces, 7 kills, 9 digs; Grace Gansebom: 1 ace, 1 solo block, 20 assists, 6 digs; Bailey Schmit: 1 ace, 2 kills, 8 digs; Lillie Gansebom: 1 ace, 3 digs; Elisa Herrera: 8 digs; Kiera Moes: 2 aces, 11 kills, 1 dig; Cali Gutz: 2 kills.
"These games gave the girls a lot motivation and determination going into subdistricts," Rice said. "This group of girls has overcome a lot of obstacles this season and have really improved, and make volleyball fun."
Subdistrict Tournament
HUMPHREY — On Monday, Oct. 26, the Lady Tigers traveled to Humphrey for the 2020 Class D1-3 Subdistrict Volleyball Tournament. In Osmond's subdistrict were the following teams: Osmond, Plainview, Tri-County Northeast, Wausa and Humphrey-Lindsay Holy Family.
Starting off the tournament, the Lady Tigers battled the Plainview Lady Pirates. Going into this game, the Lady Tigers knew that they were going to have to come out strong and play like they had not beaten this team previously. Plainview was out to win and Osmond had to be stronger physically and mentally to win this game.
The Lady Tigers fought hard for five sets, winning three sets to two with scores of 25-18 (O), 21-25 (P), 25-20 (O), 20-25 (P), 15-10 (O). The Lady Tigers played very well in every aspect of volleyball. The Lady Tigers tallied 96 digs, 15 ace serves and 52 assists which was double the amount of assists that the Lady Pirates put up.
The individual stats from this game are as follows: Macy Aschoff: 3 aces, 6 kills, 1 assist, 22 digs; Kiera Moes: 3 aces, 12 kills, 1 solo block, 7 digs; Grace Gansebom: 6 aces, 3 kills, 47 assists, 14 digs; Lillie Gansebom: 2 aces, 4 kills, 5 digs; Bailey Schmit: 16 kills, 1 assist, 25 digs; Elisa Herrera: 1 ace, 2 assists, 19 digs; Leia Buchanan: 1 dig.
With the win against the Lady Pirates, the Lady Tigers continued on in the subdistrict tournament. Later the same evening, the Lady Tigers went head-to-head with Humphrey-Lindsey Holy Family. Humphrey-Lindsey Holy Family brought a lot of tough competition to the court that included height and strength.
Starting this game, the Lady Tigers were intimidated by the height, but were reassured that height is not everything, rather it's how you play the game. With that advice in mind, the Lady Tigers were encouraged to play their game, and let the mistakes go.
Starting the third set, having lost the first two sets, the Lady Tigers were told to play this set like they want to remember their season. With that advice in mind, the Lady Tigers came out strong and played very well against Humphrey-Lindsey Holy Family.
Osmond, unfortunately, came up short in this game, losing in three sets with scores of 15-25, 7-25, 21-25, which ended the 2020 Lady Tiger volleyball season. During this match, the Lady Tigers put up 57 digs, which was impressive to see as the opponent hitters were very good.
Individual stats from this game are as follows: Cali Gutz: 2 kills, 1 dig; Kiera Moes: 1 ace, 4 kills, 3 digs; Macy Aschoff: 9 kills, 5 digs; Grace Gansebom: 15 assists, 12 digs; Taylor Thompson: 1 kill; Elisa Herrera: 3 assists, 17 digs; Bailey Schmit: 3 kills, 1 assist 13 digs; Lillie Gansebom: 1 ace, 1 kill, 6 digs.
"As the volleyball season ends, I could not be more proud of the Osmond Lady Tigers for the progress that they made throughout the season, despite obstacles of COVID-19, coaching changes, and a challenging schedule," Coach Rice said. "When diversity and challenges can be overcome, each individual betters themselves, which then betters the team, and the Lady Tigers proved that this season."
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