By Laura Kish
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Kipling School's Senior Girls Volleyball team and Kipling School hosted an exciting weekend of volleyball competition with 12 teams from areas of Saskatchewan including Carlyle, Imperial, Whitewood, Grenfell, Wawota, Carnduff, Indian Head, Melville, Lampman, Moosomin and Rocanville on Friday, Sept. 14th and Saturday, Sept. 15th.
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Throughout the weekend tournament were exciting matches between the senior teams with lots of action and the bleachers were full at all times. 聽聽聽聽
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Pool standings at the end of the round robin:
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Pool A: 1st Rocanville (5 and 0); 2nd Kipling (4 and 1); 3rd Melville (2 and 3); 4th Moosomin (2 and 3); 5th Whitewood (1 and 4) and 6th Wawota (1 and 4).
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Pool B: 1st Lampman (5 and 0); 2nd Carlyle (4 and 1); 3rd Carnduff (3 and 2); 4th Imperial (2 and 3), 5th Grenfell (1 and 4) and 6th Indian Head (0 and 5).
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Quarter Finals: Rocanville defeats Imperial 25-18, 25-9; Kipling defeats Carnduff 25-22, 25-11; Lampman defeats Moosomin 25-11, 25-13; Carlyle defeats Melville 25-10, 25-14.
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Semi Finals: Rocanville defeats Carlyle 17鈥�25, 25-13, 15-9; Kipling defeats Lampman 25-22, 25-14
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Bronze Medal Final: Lampman defeats Carlyle 25-15, 24-26, 15-13.
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Gold Medal Final: Kipling defeats Rocanville 23-25, 25-15, 15-13.
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 All-Star Awards: Setter - #8 Leah MacFarlane (Carnduff Tigers); Right Side - #2 Kenzie Balon (Kipling Magyars); Power - #12 Irelend Biette (Kipling Magyars); Middle - #11 Brooklyn Slinson (Lampman Grizzlies); Libero - #1 Shaelen Smith (Carlyle Cougars).
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Tournament M.V.P. Award went to #12 Irelend Biette (Kipling Magyars).
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 鈥淲e would first like to say that the tournament was very high caliber for so early in the season. Any one of the 12 teams could have won the tournament. We as coaches are very proud of our Kipling girls who fought hard and played with a lot of heart throughout the two days,鈥� Coaches Garth Shoemaker and Susan Long agree. 鈥淓ven after losing the first set of the gold medal match, they came back to work hard and to want the win. We dedicated our tournament and gold medal to the memory of Benjamin Batters who attended school with half of our team. In honour of this, we would like to thank Gee Bee for the set of uniforms with his name over the players heart鈥檚. He lives on with us and pushes us to never quit, never give up,鈥� adds both Shoemaker and Long.
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 鈥淣ext year we are renaming the tournament the 鈥淪usan Long Magyar Classic鈥� in honour of Susan Long鈥檚 35 years of coaching Senior Girls鈥� Volleyball in Kipling School,鈥� explains Shoemaker.
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 鈥淲e always enjoy coming to Kipling because they have a very well-run and competitive tournament,鈥� comments Robin Ulrich, Head Coach of the Lampman Grizzlies who took the bronze medal. 鈥淚 was extremely happy with how the team played throughout the weekend. We were in a very tough pool and the fact we could come out of it undefeated and win the bronze medal, was a great boost for our team early in the season.鈥�
