Class A SoDak 16 volleyball previews: Wagner, Winner to tangle again for state berth
Nov. 9—MITCHELL — Familiar foes in both the Southeast South Dakota Conference and in the Class A SoDak 16 will tangle once again with No. 6-seeded Wagner and No. 11 Winner facing off for a state volleyball tournament berth on Tuesday night at Mitchell High School. This will be the second year in a row and third time since 2022 that the Red Raiders and Warriors will have played with a state ...
Mitchell High School will host two Class A South Dakota volleyball matches on Tuesday night. The first game sees No. 6 Wagner and No. 11 Winner vie for a state tournament berth. This is the second time in back-to-back years that the teams have met in such a crucial match, with Wagner claiming victory in both previous encounters.
Wagner, a 26-5 team, defeated Winner 3-1 last season in Chamberlain, while the Warriors, at 20-9, claimed a 3-0 victory over Wagner in Plankinton during the 2022 postseason. The two teams have split their past eight meetings, 4-4. Wagner, however, has won three consecutive matches this season, including their Oct. 20 showdown in Winner, where Hannah Holzbauer led with 22 kills and a .315 hitting percentage.
Wagner's other notable contributors include Ravyn Medricky with 238 kills, Braxton Nedved with 831 assists and a .404 hitting percentage, and Brianna Fuchs with 58 blocks. For Winner, Payton Sargent has tallied an impressive 446 kills, while seventh Zeigler and Alice Wilson have contributed 204 kills and 494 digs respectively. Regular season winner Winner has qualified for the SoDak 16 in 11 consecutive years, reaching the state tournament in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2024.
The second match of the night sees Platte-Geddes, the 14-seed from Platte, take on St. Thomas More, the No. 3 seed from Wall. Platte-Geddes, led by outside hitter Kori VanDerWerff, is seeking its second state tournament berth in two years. St. Thomas More, meanwhile, is playing in the SoDak 16 for the third straight year, reaching the state bracket for the first time since 2016. The match is set to begin at 8 p.m. Central time.
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