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Volleyball season comes to an end

Oct 20

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It’s never easy to lose the first game in districts and end the season.  Even though IMS served 95% as a team and finished with 27 kills, their play was just not sharp enough tonight and that was the difference.  Casey Perez, Laura Hochstetler, Olivia Yutzy and Naomi Miller defensively dug a lot of hard hit attacks tonight but offensively IMS couldn’t put the ball down when the points were needed. 
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Coach Cindy Miller comments, “Laura Yoder played more right side tonight and did a great job setting and touching some of those attacks to slow them down.  Keilah and Naomi were rock solid, each serving 100% from the line.  The good news is that we say good-bye to no one and look forward to what these girls can accomplish together next year.”
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IMS vs HLV   1-3
scores  13-25, 25-19, 16-25, 19-25
 
Team stat totals:
95% serving 6 aces 70-74
27 kills
23 assists
1 block
75 digs
 
Individual highlights:
 
Laura Hochstetler – 9 kills, 5-6 serving, 23 digs
Olivia Yutzy – 11 kills, 1 assist, 12-13 serving with 3 aces, 15 digs
Casey Perez – 20 assists, 2 kills, 22-23 serving with 2 aces, 14 digs
Laura Yoder – 3 kills, 12-13 serving with 1 ace, 2 digs
Naomi Miller – 8-8 serving 100%, 10 digs
Keilah Brokaw – 11-11 serving 100%, 8 digs
Kristin Davis – 1 kill, 2 assists, 1 block, 3 digs
Anya Slabaugh – 1 kill, 1 block
 

IMS loses to Pekin

Oct 12

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Laura Yoder, Kristin Davis

Naomi Miller

Olivia Yutzy

Laura Hochstetler, Naomi Miller, Olivia Yutzy

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IMS lost a hard fought volleyball match at Pekin Tuesday night, 25-23, 18-25, 25-14, 13-25, 13-15.  Once again the IMS defensive play combined with 95% team serving kept them in the match but it wasn’t enough to take the victory.  The back row players consisting of Naomi Miller, Keilah Brokaw, Olivia Yutzy, Laura Hochstetler, and Casey Perez were busy accumulating 101 defensive digs in five games.  Laura Hochstetler and Olivia Yutzy led the team in kills with 17 and 12 respectively.  Casey Perez had 30 assists and 22 digs.  Coach Cindy Miller noted, “We  struggled all night to maintain the momentum and a continuity on our side of the net.  Hopefully we have learned from these recent losses and will take that knowledge into our post season tournament games.”

IMS travels to Victor to begin the post season tournament and will play the winner of English Valleys/HLV on Wednesday, October 19 at 7:00 pm.

Keilah Brokaw

Laura Yoder, Casey Perez

Olivia Yutzy, Laura Yoder, Kristin Davis

 

Anya Slabaugh

 
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Individual Stat Leaders:
 
Laura Hochstetler – 17 kills, 7-7 serving, 20 digs, 3 assists
 
Casey Perez – 30 assists, 8 kills, 18-19 serving 2 aces, 1 Block, 22 digs
 
Olivia Yutzy – 12 kills, 17-19 serving 1 ace, 2 blocks, 20 digs, 2 assists
 
Laura Yoder -4 kills, 16-16 serving 100%
 
Naomi Miller 11-12 serving 1 ace, 20 digs
 
Keilah Brokaw – 18-18 serving 100%, 15 digs
 
Anya Slabaugh – 3 kills, 2 blocks
 
Kristin Davis – 1 kill, 2 assists
 
Celia Hostetler – 1 Block
 
Laura Brenneman – 1-2 serving 1 ace
 
Hannah Miller – 1 assist

IMS competes in the Washington volleyball tournament

Oct 10

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IMS vs Keota  21-14, 19-21, 15-11

IMS vs Regina 21-12, 7-21, 7-15

IMS vs Wilton 15-21, 22-20, 14-16

 IMS vs Sigourney 17-25, 25-22, 10-15

IMS competed in the Washington tournament on Saturday.  IMS defeated Keota, but lost to Regina, Wilton and Sigourney. Coach Cindy Miller commented on the day. “For us, the tournament felt more like a marathon than a volleyball tournament.  Even after serving 93% as a team, we still took everyone we competed against to three games but failed to win more matches due to the inconsistency of our playing.  At times, our defense was absolutely amazing.   Casey Perez (39 digs), Naomi Miller (32 digs), and Laura Hochstetler (35 digs) made some unbelievable diving saves which contributed to wearing down opponents.”    The offense was sparked by Casey Perez with 57 assists and outside hitters, Olivia Yutzy (35 kills) and Laura Hochstetler (15 kills) but IMS just couldn’t maintain that level of excellence throughout every game with each opponent. IMS plays in their last conference game Tuesday night at Pekin.

Stat Leaders:

Casey Perez – 14 kills, 57 assists, 40-42 serving with 5 aces, 39 digs

Laura Hochstetler – 15 kills, 25-29 serving with 4 aces, 35 digs

Olivia Yutzy – 35 kills, 26-30 serving with 5 aces, 23 digs

Laura Yoder – 11 kills, 28-29 serving with 5 aces

Naomi Miller – 35-37 serving with 4 aces, 32 digs

Keilah Brokaw – 22-22 serving with 3 aces, 15 digs

IMS loses to Winfield Mt. Union in close match

Oct 7

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Anya Slabaugh

Laura Hochstetler, Naomi Miller, Hannah Miller

IMS lost to Winfield Mt. Union in a hard fought match Thursday night.  After losing the first two games, IMS came back in game three and four, but lost in game five 10-15.  “Defensively, I thought everyone was ready to move and we covered the court quite well.  The highlight was seeing our blockers getting their hands on the ball,” commented Coach Cindy Miller.  Anya Slabaugh and Olivia Yutzy contributed to a team high 18 blocks. “It’s always a positive to come back from two games down and have the momentum going into game five.  We just had a few more hitting errors than Winfield-Mt. Union and that cost us the match.   Our girls gained valuable court experience tonight that will definitely help us in future matches,” noted Coach Miller.

Before the match, senior manager Amber Davis was honored on senior night.  She is the only senior on the team.

Laura Yoder, Olivia Yutzy

Kristin Davis, Anya Slabaugh

Jeanne, Amber and Scott Davis

Olivia Yutzy, Anya Slabaugh, Kristin Davis

"Pink Out"

Oliva Yutzy

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Stat Highlights:
 
Team:  95% serving with 13 aces
Team:  36 kills
 
Casey Perez – 25 assists, 14-14 serving with 2 aces, 23 digs, 2 blocks, 4 kills
 
Laura Hochstetler – 11 kills, 20 digs, 1 block, 10-10 serving with 2 aces
 
Olivia Yutzy – 14 kills, 16 digs, 5 blocks, 13-15 serving with 4 aces
 
Anya Slabaugh – 6 blocks, 2 kills
 
Laura Yoder – 4 blocks, 2 kills, 23-24 serving wth 3 aces
 
Kristin Davis – 3 kills, 2 blocks, 2 digs
 
Naomi Miller – 14 digs, 11-11 serves
 
Keilah Brokaw – 7 digs, 12-13 serving with 2 aces

IMS loses to Wapello

Oct 5

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Casey Perez

IMS lost to Wapello 11-25, 4-25, 22-25 on Tuesday night at a volleyball match at Wapello.  “We never really started playing together until the third game.  Wapello’s middle hitter shut our offense down the first two games so it was good to see the girls bounce back from the two losses,” stated Coach Cindy Miller.   Casey Perez and Laura Yoder’s serving gave IMS the boost along with some Wapello mistakes to almost win game three.  IMS faces Winfield-Mt.Union on Thursday night at home.

Highlights:

Casey Perez – 13 assists, 10 digs, 10-11 serving, 5 kills

Olivia Yutzy – 8 kills, 6 digs, 5-7 serving 1 ace, 2 assists, 2 blocks

Laura Hochstetler – 7 kills, 2 digs

Laura Yoder – 7-8 serving 1 ace, 1 kill, 1 block

Naomi Miller – 8 digs, 4-5 serving 1 ace

Keilah Brokaw – 4-4 serving, 5 digs

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Anya Slabaugh

Olivia Yutzy

Laura Hochstetler

IMS defeats Waco at home

Sep 30

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Laura Hochstetler, Naomi Miller

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IMS defeated Waco at home Thursday night in three games with scores of 25-20, 25-5, 25-20.  Casey Perez served 10 serves in game two to really inspire the team to bring up their level of play.  Anya Slabaugh kept the offensive strike attacking putting down three kills.  Keilah Brokaw continued the serving streak with three of her own aces. Coach Cindy Miller said, “Game two was one of those games where we hustled and everything came together. It was fun to see the court covered so well and that everyone went after every ball.”

Anya Slabaugh, Laura Hochstetler

Naomi Miller, Olivia Yutzy, Hannah Miller

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IMS will play at Wapello on October 4 and play their last home match on Thursday night October 6 against Winfield Mt. Union.  It will be senior night for manager Amber Davis.

Match Highlights:

Casey Perez – 22-22 serves 4 aces, 20 assists, 3 kills, 12 digs
Laura Hochstetler – 10-11 serves 3 aces, 4 digs
Olivia Yutzy – 10 kills, 7-9 serves 3 aces, 4 digs
Laura Yoder – 7 kills, 7-7 serves 1 ace
Naomi Miller – 10-10 serves 2 aces, 6 digs
Keilah Brokaw – 13-14 serves 4 aces
Anya Slabaugh – 3 kills and a block