Fort Loramie’s Deanna Rodeheffer spikes as Minster’s Brooklyn Osterloh defends during a regular season game on Monday at Minster.
Luke Gronneberg | Sidney Daily News
MINSTER — Fort Loramie is off to strong start and is hoping it’s a good sign for the rest of the season.
The squad took down the rival Minster Wildcats in three sets 25-9, 25-11 and 25-16 on Tuesday at Minster Elementary School.
“I think we did a lot of really good things out here tonight,” Fort Loramie head coach John Rodgers said. “We maintained our pace and speed. That’s something we wanted to accomplish tonight.”
Jenna Barnhorst finished with 31 assists which nearly doubled the Wildcats’ team total of 16. Kill leaders for Fort Loramie were Avery Brandewie (13), Victoria Mescher (9) and Deanna Rodeheffer (6) who also had three aces.
Barhorst surpassed 2,000 career assists in the squad’s season opener on Saturday.
Digs leaders for Fort Loramie were Katie Luthman (7) and Brandewie (5).
Fort Loramie took control at the start of the game and never let its foot off the gas, only allowing Minster to hold small leads for just a few serves at a time.
“We’ve got to get better at blocking right now,” Rodgers said. “We were really good at it for a while in preseason. Possibly we’re thinking too much. But outside of that we came in and did what we wanted to tonight.”
Fort Loramie started the season by going 2-1 in the Coldwater Spikeoff and then beat Houston 25-9, 25-11, 25-16 on Thursday. Brandewie had eight kills, Mescher had seven and Rodeheffer had six. Barhorst had 31 assists and four aces.
Fort Loramie beat New Knoxville 25-11, 25-20 and St. Henry 25-23, 25-10 on Saturday in the Coldwater Spikeoff before losing 25-22, 25-17 to the Cavaliers.
Minster’s stat leaders on Thursday were Kiersten Williams with six kills, Ava Stueve with four digs and Brooklyn Osterloh with 7 assists.
Sidney has strong start to MVL play
After losing 2-1 to Indian Lake and Wapakoneta in a tri-match to start the season on Saturday, Sidney bounced back with a pair of 3-0 wins in Miami Valley League play this week.
The Yellow Jackets (2-2, 2-0 MVL) beat Troy 25-23, 25-12, 25-19 on Tuesday in Sidney and beat Xenia 25-12, 27-25, 25-12 on the road on Thursday.
Sidney lost 25-27, 25-15, 25-19 to Indian Lake and 25-11, 22-25, 25-16 to Wapakoneta in Saturday’s tri-match.
Kalesha Rush had 10 kills against Wapakoneta while Cynthia Davidson had 16 kills, 15 digs and three aces against Indian Lake. Davidson had 17 digs and eight kills against the Redskins. Alena Swearingen had 48 assists across the six sets and 30 digs.
Sidney is scheduled to host West Carrollton on Tuesday and Stebbins on Wednesday in MVL action.
Lehman Catholic goes 1-1 in 1st week
Lehman beat Fairlawn 3-0 on the road to start the season on Saturday and lost 3-1 to Parkway on Thursday in Sidney.
Lehman beat Fairlawn 25-21, 25-19, 25-14 to open the season. Kailee Rank had 22 kills and 18 digs while Lilly Leininger had 12 kills. Madison Rank had 39 assists and four aces. Lily Graham had 16 digs.
The Cavaliers lost 25-17, 25-17, 23-25, 25-15 to the Panthers on Thursday.
Lehman is scheduled to travel to Milton-Union on Tuesday for its first Three Rivers Conference match.
