Dispatching visiting Sibley East 2-1 on Monday, the JV girls closed their season on an uptick.
Keira Schipper sent a Wolverine over right back down for a kill and the first winner of game one. Jocelyn Kortuem followed with an ace serve, and three points later, Kaitlyn Flowers dished up a service ace, and the Clippers led 6-2.
Schipper uncoiled a kill for Clipper point eight and followed with an ace serve. Liviana Lee, who spent most of the year on C squad, sent over a diagonal kill, and the Clippers were ahead 11-6.
Schipper, Flowers and Aubrey Blaschko kept on the attack, to put the Clippers in front 23-10. The Wolverines won the next four points, but after a Blaschko kill, the game ended 25-14 when Kortuem tipped over an ace.
Lee swung for a kill for the first point of game two. With a Flowers ace tip, the Clippers led 7-2, but the Wolverines scored nine of the next 11 including three kills and an ace serve for an 11-9 advantage.
Evelyn Keltgen’s ace tip stopped the Sibley East rally and was the start of a six-point Clipper run that also included a Kortuem ace tip and a pair of Schipper kills. But after another Schipper kill put the Clippers in front 16-12, the Wolverines posted the next eight points, all but three of them on Clipper errors.
Flowers pushed the ball into a vacant spot to pull the Clippers within three, 22-19, but the Wolverines responded with a kill before the Clippers errored on the next two points to fall 25-19.
The Clippers never trailed in the rubber game. Lee had a kill early, and the Wolverines stuck the ball in the net on three-straight points to put the Clippers in front 5-2. From there, Lee smashed a kill, and Blaschko rolled over an ace.
Out front 12-9, the Clippers scored two points after a couple of Lee hits and then lost a point on a serve out of bounds. But with another Lee kill, the Clippers won the game 15-10.
Schipper spiked five winners. Blaschko hit four. Lee had three kills. Flowers hit for one kill. Kortuem set up six points.
Flowers scratched 11 digs. Valentina Rohlfing scooped nine digs. Amelia Chmiel and Cheyenne Lotspeich each had six digs. Ava Kluntz had two digs. Blaschko and Kortuem each had five digs. Keltgen had two digs. Schipper had three digs.
Flowers sent over four ace serves. Schipper, Kortuem, Lee and Rohlfing each served one ace.
Above: Evelyn Keltgen extends for a block.
