September 26, 2017 at 3:22 a.m.
Tribe sweeps Lehman
Indians overcome slow start to beat Cavaliers
Tribe sweeps Lehman
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FORT RECOVERY — The Indians want to be undefeated against teams outside their conference.
Monday they kept their non-Midwest Athletic Conference record unblemished, but not until after a slow beginning.
The Fort Recovery High School volleyball team overcame an early 6-0 deficit to sweep the Lehman Catholic Cavaliers, 25-23, 25-13, 25-9 at Fort Site Fieldhouse.
“Called a timeout and just preached about our talk in the locker room about how we can’t have any setbacks,” FRHS coach Chelsea Kahlig, whose team moves to 12-2 on the year including a 9-0 mark against non conference opponents, said about the quick start from the Cavaliers. “I told them we kind of lost focus of what we were doing. I feel like if it was a MAC game there were certain things that wouldn’t happen.
“We just have to stay a little more disciplined.”
It took the Indians — they finished fifth in Monday’s Ohio High School Volleyball Coaches Association poll for Division IV — quite a while to catch up after struggling early on. The Cavaliers (8-8) kept the Tribe at a four-point cushion for most of the set before a 6-1 swing gave the Indians their first lead of the night, 17-16.
Kahlig burned her second timeout trailing 22-21. Out of the break, a Paige Fortkamp kill tied the score before an attack error made it 23-22 FRHS. But the Indians gifted a point to the Cavs on an attack that sailed long before Cassy Martin notched back-to-back kills to give Fort Recovery the opening set.
“I thought Cass played a heck of a game,” Kahlig said. Paige Jutte led the team with eight kills, while Martin was second with seven. Carley Stone was third on the team with six kills, and Paige Fortkamp tallied five kills.
Sophomore Brooke Kahlig came off the bench in the second set to serve to spark the Indians into a 9-0 run, which included a stretch in which Kahlig notched three aces in the span of seven points.
“She’s done a great job of stepping in and doing what she needs to do back there,” coach Kahlig said. “She’s had a great year on (junior varsity) and that’s something we see. Obviously when tournament time comes we’ll take full advantage of her.”
Kelsey Jutte had her turn at the service line in set three. Stone notched a kill to make it 6-4 Fort Recovery, then Jutte tossed up eight more points, including a pair of aces.
During the run, Brooke Gaerke had one of her four blocks while Fortkamp and Stone both had kills.
The Indians closed the match on a 6-0 run, including two kills and a block from Martin as well as a pair of Paige Jutte kills.
Fortkamp, a freshman, has come along nicely for the Indians over the last two weeks, emerging as a viable fourth attacking option for Fort Recovery alongside Paige Jutte, Stone and Martin.
“She definitely has her freshman mistakes, some errors,” Kahlig said. “She just fits in nicely right in there. Hopefully she can for sure keep getting better. Right now she feels like she’s in a funk, but she does some good things for us.
“We are finally spreading our offense and it’s nice to have those go-to options.”
And junior setter Madi Rammel, who also had three kills of her own, set them up by totaling 19 assists. Kiah Wendel paced the Indians defensively with 17 digs.
Despite totaling seven aces as a squad, Fort Recovery also had seven errors from the serving line. It was one of the performances Kahlig is hopeful her team will improve on as it continues MAC play Thursday against the Parkway Panthers.
“Our serving was wishy-washy,” she said. “We had a lot of aces but we missed seven serves in two sets. We just kept giving them too many points; hitting errors and blocking errors. That is kind of what set the tone that first set, it was just all us.”
Junior varsity
Unlike their varsity counterparts, Fort Recovery got off to a hot start in a 25-9, 25-19 sweep of Lehman Catholic.
Olivia Patch and Val Muhlenkamp combined to dominate the net. Patch had eight kills and Muhlenkamp totaled five, while both of them had two blocks apiece. Chloe Showalter’s four kills were third on the team.
All Rights Reserved
FORT RECOVERY — The Indians want to be undefeated against teams outside their conference.
Monday they kept their non-Midwest Athletic Conference record unblemished, but not until after a slow beginning.
The Fort Recovery High School volleyball team overcame an early 6-0 deficit to sweep the Lehman Catholic Cavaliers, 25-23, 25-13, 25-9 at Fort Site Fieldhouse.
“Called a timeout and just preached about our talk in the locker room about how we can’t have any setbacks,” FRHS coach Chelsea Kahlig, whose team moves to 12-2 on the year including a 9-0 mark against non conference opponents, said about the quick start from the Cavaliers. “I told them we kind of lost focus of what we were doing. I feel like if it was a MAC game there were certain things that wouldn’t happen.
“We just have to stay a little more disciplined.”
It took the Indians — they finished fifth in Monday’s Ohio High School Volleyball Coaches Association poll for Division IV — quite a while to catch up after struggling early on. The Cavaliers (8-8) kept the Tribe at a four-point cushion for most of the set before a 6-1 swing gave the Indians their first lead of the night, 17-16.
Kahlig burned her second timeout trailing 22-21. Out of the break, a Paige Fortkamp kill tied the score before an attack error made it 23-22 FRHS. But the Indians gifted a point to the Cavs on an attack that sailed long before Cassy Martin notched back-to-back kills to give Fort Recovery the opening set.
“I thought Cass played a heck of a game,” Kahlig said. Paige Jutte led the team with eight kills, while Martin was second with seven. Carley Stone was third on the team with six kills, and Paige Fortkamp tallied five kills.
Sophomore Brooke Kahlig came off the bench in the second set to serve to spark the Indians into a 9-0 run, which included a stretch in which Kahlig notched three aces in the span of seven points.
“She’s done a great job of stepping in and doing what she needs to do back there,” coach Kahlig said. “She’s had a great year on (junior varsity) and that’s something we see. Obviously when tournament time comes we’ll take full advantage of her.”
Kelsey Jutte had her turn at the service line in set three. Stone notched a kill to make it 6-4 Fort Recovery, then Jutte tossed up eight more points, including a pair of aces.
During the run, Brooke Gaerke had one of her four blocks while Fortkamp and Stone both had kills.
The Indians closed the match on a 6-0 run, including two kills and a block from Martin as well as a pair of Paige Jutte kills.
Fortkamp, a freshman, has come along nicely for the Indians over the last two weeks, emerging as a viable fourth attacking option for Fort Recovery alongside Paige Jutte, Stone and Martin.
“She definitely has her freshman mistakes, some errors,” Kahlig said. “She just fits in nicely right in there. Hopefully she can for sure keep getting better. Right now she feels like she’s in a funk, but she does some good things for us.
“We are finally spreading our offense and it’s nice to have those go-to options.”
And junior setter Madi Rammel, who also had three kills of her own, set them up by totaling 19 assists. Kiah Wendel paced the Indians defensively with 17 digs.
Despite totaling seven aces as a squad, Fort Recovery also had seven errors from the serving line. It was one of the performances Kahlig is hopeful her team will improve on as it continues MAC play Thursday against the Parkway Panthers.
“Our serving was wishy-washy,” she said. “We had a lot of aces but we missed seven serves in two sets. We just kept giving them too many points; hitting errors and blocking errors. That is kind of what set the tone that first set, it was just all us.”
Junior varsity
Unlike their varsity counterparts, Fort Recovery got off to a hot start in a 25-9, 25-19 sweep of Lehman Catholic.
Olivia Patch and Val Muhlenkamp combined to dominate the net. Patch had eight kills and Muhlenkamp totaled five, while both of them had two blocks apiece. Chloe Showalter’s four kills were third on the team.
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