Wildcats top Loyal in nonconference net action

After dropping the first set, the Blair-Taylor volleyball team won three straight to beat Loyal on Tuesday of last week. 

B-T was close to falling down 0-2 in its home opener, but the Wildcats came through at the end to win the second set, 26-24, then won the next two for the 3-1 match victory. 

The Wildcats went 2-2 in a tournament at Black River Falls on Saturday. 

B-T begins this week with a 4-4 overall record. The team is set to begin Dairyland Conference play with a match in Whitehall on Thursday. This coming Tuesday, B-T will take on Cochrane-Fountain City.

B-T   18 26 25 25

LHS   25 24 21 18

The Wildcats used strong play at the net and the service line to pull out the win.

Chloe Medenblik had a team-high 17 kills for B-T while Charlyse Horton added 11 and Andrea Waldera finished with 10. Waldera added two blocks, while Medenblik and Horton both had one. 

B-T also scored 19 points directly from the service line as Horton and Addison Lejcher both had four service aces. Emma Wathke and Waldera both had three aces, Alyssa Tubbs and Medenblik had two and Andi Beck finished with one. 

Wathke had two blocks and led the team with 25 set assists. Horton added 11 assists. B-T also got five kills each from Tubbs and Lejcher and one from Kelcie Kindschy.

Medenblik and Waldera were both active defensively with the former registering 22 digs and the latter getting 17. 

BR Falls tournament

Three of the four matches B-T competed in were decided in straight sets with the Wildcats pulling off a pair of sweeps.

B-T swept Nekoosa, 25-20 and 26-24, and De Soto, 25-20, 25-19. The team lost to Viroqua, 25-14, 25-23 and La Crosse Logan, 25-18, 18-25, 15-12. 

Medenblik had team-highs with 43 kills, 32 digs and six blocks in the tournament. Waldera added 20 kills, 31 digs and five blocks. Horton did most of the setting with 36 assists, Wathke added 22 and Smetana finished with 18.

Waldera had a team-high six aces for B-T, one more than Medenblik while Wathke finished with four, Tubbs, Smetana and Horton all had two and Samantha Aguilar served one ace in the tournament. 

Independence/Gilmanton and Whitehall were also scheduled to compete in the tournament, but scores and statistics were not sent before press time.