Northern Athletics Conference Volleyball

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News about an honor for a Concordia-Chicago player here:

http://northernac.org/releases/2009/2009_10/20091024a.html

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Attended the WLC home triangular over the weekend. Concordia-WI and Ripon were scheduled to play the second match of the day. Ripon won the second set 35-33, but Concordia-WI ended up winning the match in 5! Wild!

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10/27 NAthCon Final:

Concordia-WI over Marian U (25-18, 25-19, 25-20)

(That puts the Falcons a game behind Lakeland & Benedictine and 1/2 game up on Aurora. It also means that WLC and Edgewood will end up playing first-round matches on the road, Concordia-Chicago will also end up on the road.)

Should Dominican beat WLC at home tomorrow, and Aurora beat Concordia-Chicago, the Spartans and Falcons would finish with 9-3 records and CUW would get the 4th seed, having beaten Aurora earlier this season head to head.

The only tie WLC would have an advantage on would be if the Warriors beat Dominican and Aurora lost to CUC. (WLC beat Aurora on head to head this year.

If Dominican loses tomorrow, Lakeland wins the regular season conference title, having beaten Benedictine head-to-head.

If WLC and Edgewood remain tied after tomorrow's action, the WI Eagle squad gets the #6 seed, having beaten the Warriors head to head.

Suppose Lakeland, Benedictine & Dominican all finish at 10-2? (and/or WLC, Aurora and Edgewood all finish 8-4?) This poster will clam up and let the NAthCon commissioner & company sort those scenarios out.  

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10/28 NAthCon final just in:

Dominican over WLC (17-25, 25-16, 25-22, 25-17).

With that result the Stars finish the regular season in a 3-way tie with Lakeland and Benedictine at the top. If my calculations are correct, WLC will end up as a 7th seed in the conference playoffs.

More finals later.

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Other NAthCon finals:

Edgewood over MSOE:

Aurora over Concordia-Chicago:

Dominican ended up winning out on the 3-way tie at the top-will have home court throughout if they keep winning:

Unless I botched up somewhere, here are the conference tournament 1st round match-ups:

Concordia-Chicago vs. Dominican:
WLC vs. Lakeland
Edgewood vs. Benedictine
Aurora vs Concordia-WI

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News about a milestone reached by an MSOE player here:

http://northernac.org/releases/2009/2009_10/20091029a.html

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NAthCon Tournament Final just in:

Dominican over Concordia-Chicago (25-9, 25-16, 25-19)
    Per Dominican stats:
        Dominican --Kammeier 11 kills, 3 players with 10 or more digs
        CUC --Wietfeldt 13 digs.

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Other NAthCon Championship results:

Lakeland over WLC in 3 (25-21, 25-18, 25-23) 
     Muskies' Paulus one of 3 Lakeland players with double digit kills.

Edgewood upsets Benedictine in 4 (28-26, 25-17, 12-25, 25-14)
      Edgewood's Palmer--12 kills, 18 digs
      Benedictine--Leyden 19 kills, 20 digs

Concordia-WI over Aurora in 3

WLC finishes 17-17 overall on the year and the squad's 7-5 in-conference mark was the best since an 11-5 mark back in '05 in the old LMC (the same year Maranatha and Lakeland duked it out at the top, with Lakeland winning out on tie-breakers--the Warriors also made the LMC playoffs that year-losing at home to Marian in the opening round).

This season, given A) there was a major shift in coaching (2 new assistants)  B) the squad lost a couple of starters from last season and C) it fought its' way out of an early 0-3 in-conference hole, this poster's not complaining too much.

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NAthCon Championship Semi-Final Results:

Dominican over Concordia-WI  (17-25, 26-24, 25-21, 25-22)
   Per Star stats:  CUW-- Roessler 12 kills, 18 digs
                            Dominican--  Kammeier 20 kills, 15 digs, Moore 24 digs

Lakeland over Edgewood in 4

Final:  Dominican vs. Lakeland   (Kammeier & Moore vs. the Muskies' Paulus, Linger & Co.--and Lakeland will be on the road this time.)

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NAthCon Final just in: 

Lakeland over Dominican (25-27, 24-26, 25-19, 25-14, 15-10)
         (Muskies had higher attack pct. the last 3 games)

    (Muskies also did that in '04 at home in the LMC final.)

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Good news and bad news for Lakeland followers:

Good news:  Lakeland doesn't have to play a WIAC school in the first round this year.

Bad news:  The Muskies' draw--Hope (MI) on Hope's home floor.

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NAthCon volleyball awards are now up:

http://northernac.org/releases/2009/2009_11/20091111a.html

(At the risk of sounding "homer-ish" I'll toss out an honorable metion to WLC's Coach Balsiger for getting the Warriors in the NAthCon playoffs for the first time since '05. I posted on the other factors that figured in some 4-5 posts back.)

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Hope beat Lakeland in 3 in NCAAs.

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Alverno's going VB coach hunting:

http://athletics.alverno.edu/volleyball

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Alverno's got a new coach:

http://northernac.org/releases/2010/2010_03/20100309a.html