9/18: #12 Elmhurst wins see-saw 5-setter at #21 Carthage

I started a new job that starts very early, so some scores could be left blank until the following afternoon. Sorry that I’m on my grandfather’s schedule, but I have yet to find a money tree and entities are requiring me to pay for a domicile, electricity, food, Internet and what-have-you. The nerve.

Anyway, here is tonight’s schedule.

CCIW • #12 Elmhurst 3, #21 Carthage 2 Set 5 ended 17-15; EC had four players with double-digit kills. • Millikin 3, Wheaton 1 MU’s Audrey Krajec had 15 kills, 5 blocks. • North Central (Ill.) 3, North Park 0 NCC hit .341 and had 10 aces.

IIAC • Coe 3, Central 0 Coe hit .319 with 9 blocks.

MWC • Monmouth 3, Illinois College 1 MC’s Chelsey Widdop had 15 kills, 13 digs.

NAC • Maranatha 3, Concordia Wisconsin 0 MBBC’s Torey DeLozier and Laci Peterson combined to go 39-11-74.

SLIAC • Webster 3, Blackburn 0 BC hit -.012. • Principia 3, MacMurray 0 PC’s Kiersten Andersen went 12-3-21 with 10 digs.

GPAC • Concordia (Neb.) 3, Nebraska Wesleyan 1 NWU’s Alex Springman had 48 assists, 10 digs.

Nonconference • UW-Superior 3, St. Scholastica 0 UWS’s Nikki Gosson went 19-0-32. • Mayville St. 3, Minnesota Morris 2 • Martin Luther 3, Macalester 1 MLC’s Rachel Hein went 14-1-23 with 5 blocks. • Lake Forest 3, Mount Mary 1 LFC’s Molly McCloskey had 11 kills, 10 digs. • Northland 3, Finlandia 0 NC’s Tayler Viegut had 7 kills. • Lincoln Christian 3, Greenville 1 • Transylvania 3, Spalding 2 Set 5 ended 15-9; SU’s Elisa Burkman had 22 kills, 16 digs. • Fontbonne 3, Robert Morris-Peoria 0 FU’s Abbie Bergtholdt had 11 kills. • Presentation 3, Trinity Bible 0

Top 25 upset watch #4 Hope 3, Alma 0#8 Cal Lutheran 3, La Verne 2#15 Juniata 3, Penn St. Altoona 0#18 Mount Union 3, Geneva 1#20 Eastern 3, Wilkes 0#22 Heidelberg 3, Wilmington 0#23 Salisbury 3, St. Mary’s (Md.) 1

-Ricky Nelson