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Cloquet's Keelee Grashorn extends to get to a ball on defense during the Lumberjacks 3-1 win over Duluth Denfeld Oct. 29.
Cloquet freshman Ava Carlson makes a kill against the defense of Duluth Denfeld's Anna Pozniak during Thursday night's volleyball match at Cloquet Middle School.
Cloquet's Trinity Semo uses a jump serve during Thursday night's volleyball match with Duluth Denfeld. The Lumberjacks beat Denfeld 3-1, with set scores of 22-25, 25-12, 25-18, and 25-21.
Cloquet senior libero Elli Willoughby gets one of her match high 17 digs during Thursday's volleyball match with Duluth Denfeld.
Cloquet's Emerson Rock makes one of her 29 set-assists during Thursday night's volleyball match with Duluth Denfeld. Rock also had 7 kills and 7 digs in the 3 -1 Lumberjacks victory.
Cloquet junior Breea Rasmussen hits past the defense of Duluth Denfeld's Sydney Larson during Thursday night's volleyball match at Cloquet Middle School. Rasmussen totaled 8 kills, and added 4 ace serves and 14 digs for the Lumberjacks.
The Cloquet High School volleyball team, with their 'socially-distanced' bench area await the start of Thursday night's match with Duluth Denfeld.
The Cloquet volleyball team is on a winning streak following their 3-1 win over the Duluth Denfeld Hunters Thursday, Oct. 29. The Lumberjacks dropped the first game 22-25, but rebounded to win the next three games by scores of 25-12, 25-18, 25-21 to secure their sixth win in a row.
After losing the opening game of the match, the Lumberjacks front row took control as Brenna McClarey hammered down 13 kills, Ava Carlson added 11 kills and Brea Rasmussen chipped in with eight kills.
"We have several players who are able to score points for us," said Cloquet coach Heidi Anderson. "McClarey, Carlson, Rasmussen, and Geneveve Fonoti are all able to put the ball down and give us a balanced attack."
McClarey also put up five blocks in the front row, Carlson added 10 digs and Rasmussen had four ace serves and 14 digs.
"Keelee Grashorn is also working really hard at the middle blocker/hitter position," Anderson said. "With our first two games against Hermantown and Grand Rapids, we only had five or six practices in after tryouts, so we were still working on figuring out who plays what position and who plays next to each other."
The Lumberjacks also got plenty of help from their setter as well. Emerson Rock ran the offense efficiently with 29 set assists to go along with seven kills and seven digs for an all-around impressive game.
"The timing between setters and hitters takes work," Anderson said. "We had a lot of errors in our first few matches, so we have been working hard to reduce those errors, earn more points, and not rely on the other teams' errors to score points."
In the back row, the Lumberjacks were consistent throughout the lineup, but Elli Willoughby was most impressive with 17 digs.
The win was the sixth victory in a row since the two opening losses.
"Denfeld was a fun win between two pretty evenly matched teams," said Anderson. "We had played against them a couple of times in summer league so we knew a bit about them. It's harder to scout with fewer games being played, but we made some nice game adjustments to get better blocking and defensive matchups in the second, third and fourth sets."
The win improved the Lumberjacks record to 6-2 on the season. If all goes as scheduled in these pandemic times, Cloquet was set to play unbeaten Greenway at Cloquet Middle School Thursday, Nov. 5, then Denfeld again on Nov. 12 and Esko on Friday, Nov. 13.
