Awesome Blossoms get past Randolph volleyball team

Published 9:15 pm Thursday, October 24, 2013

The Blooming Prairie volleyball team beat No. 5 Randolph (8-16 overall) 25-17, 25-16, 25-15 in the first round of the Section 1A West Division tournament in BP Thursday.

Taylor Hagen slammed down 19 kills and had five blocks for No. 4 BP (22-7 overall), which will play top-seed Faribault Bethlehem Academy in Mayo Civic Center Saturday at 1 p.m.

BP allowed just once ace on Thursday and it tallied 11 ace serves of its own.

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“We wanted to make sure we were focused and we wanted to be aggressive with our serves,” BP head coach Gina McLaughlin said.

BP lost to FBA 25-21, 25-13, 25-19 in the regular season.

“We’ll have to control the passing and it’ll be a big game for us,” McLaughlin said.

BP stats: Taylor Hagen, 19 kills, 2 aces, 5 blocks, 1 dig; Madison Worke, 6 kills, 2 aces, 1 block, 29 set assists, 4 digs; Sara Noble, 10 kills, 10 digs, 1 block, 2 aces; Nicole Inwards, 11 digs, 1 set assist, 2 aces; Liz Willert, 2 kills, 1 set assist, 11 digs; Liz Willert, 2 kills, 1 ace, 2 blocks, 5 set assists, 3 digs; Lauren Larkoski, 2 kills, 2 aces, 3 blocks, 6 digs