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4 \ \ f e had a good overall season," one of the bright spots of the
V V said freshman volleyball coach season: "It was beautiful effort and
Ann Fulkerson. "'A' team was 7-3 important to the girls to see a
and took second place in reward for their efforts."
conference tournament. 'B' team "I thought it was going to be
was 2-7." easy to begin with," said varsity
"1 expected them to do well. volleyball coach Dale Kinney, "but
They were obviously fairly as it turned out, the schedule was
talented," stated Fulkerson. just as tough as last year. We
She explained that beating Gross played six teams in the top ten.
was the high point of the season: The competition was strong."
"They had 39 spike attempts in Kinney explained that the games
one game, which is pretty good for against Central and Bryan were the
freshmen. They played well." high points of the season because
According to Fulkerson, this was of the good team effort displayed.
the best freshman team she had "The match against Bryan was
seen at Ralston as far as records. hard fought and could have gone
"Very successful and rewarding" either way," said Kinney. The
was how j.v. volleyball coach Mike identical scores of 14-16 and 14-16
Friesz described the winning verified his statement.
season of 9-8. "The girls were easy For the first time in several years,
to coach, because they usually there were state qualifiers. Senior
knew when they needed help, or Anita Perich qualified through
when they just needed a little percentage of serves and junior
more hustle," said Freisz. Lisa Nelson through spikes.
The team placed second at the "Next year we rebuild, because
Lewis Central Invitational j.v. most of the team was seniors,"
tournament, after beating Thomas concluded Kinney. With the
Jefferson in the semi-finals and records of the freshman and j.v.
losing to Sioux City East in the teams he felt there would be a lot
finals. According to Friesz, winning of talent to build on.
against T.j. in the tournament was

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Team togetherness is just as important off the
court as on. Getting together during practice
are freshmen Karen Bone, Dawn Crinklaw,
Bump passing to sophomore Becky Burianek Tonya Johnson, and Kim Paskach.
in a game against Millard North is sophomore
Kim Farrell while sophomores Tracy Gibbons,
Karmine Dulany, and juniors Lynn Thompson
and Melissa Krause wait to help.

Good blocking technique defends any hit
Reaching above the net at practice are fresh­
man Gail Passmore and Jenny Burry.

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