Lady Mavericks See Plenty of Action, Take Second in Scobey Invitational Tourney

The North Country Lady Mavericks Volleyball team had a week full of games as they took on Class B's Harlem Wildcats and won 3-0 on Thursday, September 12. They fell 1-3 to Scobey on Friday, September 13, and then competed in the Scobey Invitational on Saturday, September 14, and made it to the championship game.

The Mavericks fell in the Scobey Invitational's championship game 1-2 to the Circle Wildcats. The scores were 7-25, 25-23, and 10-15.

"Saturday's Scobey Invitational did not disappoint," Mavericks Head Coach Char Wasson said. "We played 16 sets of volleyball from 9:30 in the morning till 7:30 at night. We had eight sets of pool play throughout the day and then ended up seeded second out of our pool. We went into tournament play and played Froid/Medicine Lake, Scobey and Circle in the championship."

In the tournament, the scores were: Opening round win over Froid-Medicine Lake 27-25, 23-25, and 15-11. Semifinal round win over Scobey 25-14 and 26-24.

Stats for all three tournament matches are as follows: Aces: Team 21, Berkley Hillman 7, Emerson Downing and Gracie Wasson each with 5. Kills: Team 54, CharLee McColly 18, BaiLee McColly 16, Gracie Wasson 6. Assists: Team 48, Kennedy Simonson 25, Emerson Downing 12 and Gracie Wasson 6. Digs: Team 108, Kennedy Simonson 23, Gracie Wasson 22, Berkley Hillman 17, Ireland Mears 16, and Emerson Downing 14. Blocks: Team 9, Lyli Bear 4, CharLee McColly 3, BaiLee McColly 2.

In pool play vs Nashua: NC 25 - N 12, NC 25 - N 16; vs Plentywood: NC 25 - PW 19, NC 25 - PW 18; vs Plevna NC 25 - P 10, NC 25 - P 10; vs Circle NC 16 - C 25, NC 25 - C 19.

The total stats for all the pool play sets were: Aces: Team 33, Berkley Hillman 14, BaiLee McColly 6, Gracie Wasson 5, Emerson Downing 4. Kills: Team 68, CharLee McColly 26, BaiLee McColly 20, Lyli Bear 10, Gracie Wasson 9. Assists: Team 65, Kennedy Simonson 27, Emerson Downing 21, Gracie Wasson and Berkley Hillman 7. Digs: Team 97, Ireland Mears 20, Kennedy Simonson 19, Berkley Hillman and Gracie Wasson each with 14, BaiLee McColly 12 and Emerson Downing 11. Blocks: Team 2 BaiLee McColly 2.

In the team's loss to Scobey last Friday night, the scores were; 19-25, 25-17, 24-26, and 19-25. Stats for the Scobey game: Aces: Team 16, Lyli Bear 7, BaiLee McColly 4 and Berkley Hillman 3. Kills: Team 40, CharLee McColly 14, BaiLee McColly 13, Gracie Wasson 5. Assists: Team 29, Kennedy Simonson 11, Emerson Downing 10, Berkley Hillman 4, Gracie Wasson 3. Digs: Team 43, Emerson Downing 11, Berkley Hillman and Ireland Mears each with 8 and Gracie Wasson with 7. Blocks: Team 5, CharLee McColly 3 and BaiLee McColly 2.

"I knew this match would be our best competition so far in the conference," Coach Wasson said. "Scobey only lost one senior last year who did a little setting for them. They should be the most put-together team so far this season, which proved to be the case. We lost our match in four sets but came away with a lot of knowledge of where to improve our game. We battled hard and had very close sets that could have gone either direction."

In the Lady Mavericks' win over Harlem, the scores were 25-9, 25-23, and 25-23. The stat totals were as follows: Aces: Team 5, Gracie Wasson 2. Kills: Team 39, BaiLee McColly 11, CharLee McColly 10, Kodi McColly 8 and Emerson Downing 5. Assists: Team 32, Kennedy Simonson 17, Gracie Wasson 9 and Emerson Downing 4. Digs: Team 48, Ireland Mears, Berkley Hillman and Emerson Downing each with 8. Blocks: Team 5 BaiLee McColly 4 and CharLee McColly 1.

"I was proud of the way the girls were passing the ball off serve-receive this night," Coach Wasson said. "We are building it up and getting it to become very steady."

This week the Mavericks will travel to Malta on Friday, September 20 to take on the Class B Malta M-ettes and will host Nashua in Whitewater on Saturday, September 21.