RPAC Rundown Featured Matchup: Medicine Valley Volleyball Triangular: Arapahoe - Medicine Valley - Paxton
Medicine Valley will host Arapahoe and Paxton for a triangular on Thursday, October 1st, with the first match at 5:00 PM CT.
Arapahoe
The Warriors are 12-3 and are coached by Katie Helms. Arapahoe was on a nine-game winning streak before they fell in five sets to Hershey on Tuesday night.
Junior Taytum Roskop leads the team with 118 kills; senior Desi Farner has 112 kills; senior Clara Hilker has 102 kills (hitting 0.143%); and senior Ruby McCune has 41 kills.
Arapahoe applies a lot of pressure from the service line, with 87 aces this season and an average of 2.3 aces per set. Hilker and junior Sawyer Shafer both have 25 aces this season. Junior Suttyn Shafer also has 17 aces this season.
Scrappy defense. This team hustles for the ball. From blocks to digs, they hustle. The team has 50 blocks this season. Hilker has 23 blocks this season, and 14 of those are solo blocks. McCune has 13 blocks, and junior Cydney Carlson has 12 blocks this season.
833 total digs, averaging 21.9 digs per set. Suttyn Shafer has 186 digs, Saywer Shafer has 149 digs, Roskop has 148 digs, Farner has 144 digs, and Hilker has 114 digs.
Sawyer Shafer has been running the offense for the Warriors and eclipsed the 1,000-career-assists mark in their game Tuesday night. She sits at 1,016 assists. Shafer has 358 assists this season and is averaging 9.4 assists per set.
Arapahoe is in the D1-10 District with Axtell, Loomis, Red Cloud, and Southern Valley.
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Medicine Valley
The Raiders are 3-12 and are coached by Danae Keech. Medicine Valley is coming off a five-set win over Sandhills Valley on Tuesday night.
Junior Oakley Stout leads the team in several stat categories. She has 126 kills, averaging 2.7 kills per set, while hitting 0.174%. Stout has 21 aces, 10 blocks, and 222 digs this season.
Medicine Valley has 334 kills this season. Senior TeeJay Hildebrandt has 57 kills, senior Kenley Cole has 52 kills, and Sophomore Aspen Closeman has 50 kills.
The Raiders have 86 aces this season. Hildebrandt has 20 aces, Closman has 19 aces, and sophomore Gracie Johns has 12 aces.
Medicine Valley is scrappy on defense, too, with 817 digs. Hildebrandt has 141 digs, Johns has 101, senior Delaney Evans has 108, and junior Zoe Trimble has 66.
Johns is running the Raider offense and has 254 assists this season, averaging 5.4 assists per set.
Another to watch for is freshman Donna Harding.
Medicine Valley is in the D2-9 District with Hitchcock County, Paxton, Sutherland, and Wallace.
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Paxton
The Tigers are 13-8 and are coached by Lisa Mitchell. Paxton split matches on Tuesday, falling to Sandhills/Thedford and beating Arthur County.
Junior Jakcee Mitchell leads the Tigers with 168 kills, averaging 3.7 kills per set, while hitting 0.207%. Sophomore Olivia McBride has added 113 kills while hitting 0.140%, and senior Reece Glinn has 89 kills.
The Tigers have a balanced serving game with 89 aces for the season and multiple players with double-digit aces. Glinn leads the team with 19 aces; junior Cayla Peterson has 16; Mitchell has 15; McBride has 11; senior Hadleigh Kramer has 11; and freshman Kuenning has 10.
Paxton has 999 digs this season, averaging 17.8 digs per set. These are going to be some scrappy matches with some awesome hustle plays. Peterson has 197 digs, Mitchell has 189 digs, Kramer has 168 digs, McBride has 150 digs, Kuenning has 197 digs, and Glinn has 120 digs.
Kramer leads the Tigers' offense with 389 assists this season, averaging 8.7 assists per set. She has 1,090 career assists.
Paxton is in the D2-9 District with Hitchcock County, Medicine Valley, Sutherland, and Wallace.
