Minnewaska middle hitter Ariel Ostrander, right, fires a shot by the block attempt of BOLD setter Samantha Luepke during the second game of the teams' West Central Conference match on Thursday in Olivia.

Prep volleyball: Minnewaska downs BOLD

OLIVIA -- The Minnewaska volleyball team stayed within sight of West Central Conference leader, state-ranked Sauk Centre, with a big road win on Thursday.

Minnewaska rolled behind 16 kills from Lexi Amundson and 40 Ashton Byrne set assists to defeat BOLD in four games.

The Lakers came through 25-23, 25-15, 15-25 and 25-20.

The Lakers improved to 7-1 in the West Central Conference, a game behind the undefeated Mainstreeters, and they are 13-4 overall. BOLD fell to 4-4 in the WCC and 7-8 overall.

Sydney Joos added 11 kills for the Lakers while teammate Taylor Noetzelman had 6.

Byrne also had 5 kills and the Lakers' Ariel Ostrander and Alexis Guggisberg both had 4.

BOLD's Baylie Kubesh struck for 13 aces in 38 hits. Mallarie Steffel drilled 5 ace serves on 19 deliveries with 1 errors.

Minnewaska 3, BOLD 1

Minnewaska 26 25 20 25

BOLD 24 21 25 22

(Key: good-attempts-aces)

Minnewaska

Serving: Ashton Byrne 15-17-2, Taylor Noetzelman 10-11-1, Alexis Guggisberg 16-17-2 ... Setting: Byrne 121-125-40 ... Hitting: Lexi Amundson 38-40-16, Sydney Joos 17-22-11, Noetzelman 15-17-6 ... Blocking (aces): Noetzelman 1 ... Digs: Amundson 10, Joos 10, Alison Hoeper 16

BOLD

Serving: Baylie Kubesh 7-10-1, Bailey Elbert 17-18-0, Carly Sigurdson 13-16-0, Mallarie Steffel 18-19-5, Sam Luepke 9-9-0, Paige Larsen 9-10-1... Setting: Kubesh 10 assists, Luepke 14 assists... Hitting: Kubesh 31-38-13, Taylor Ebnet 9-12-3, Sigurdson 17-30-5, Steffel 27-30-5, Andrea Maher 13-18-5, Larsen 12-13-4 ... Blocking (aces): Kubesh 2, Larsen 1, Maher 1 ... Digs: Kubesh 7, Elbert 9, Sigurdson 20, Steffel 11, Luepke 9, Larsen 19

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