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By DALE KUGATH
Sportswriter
The New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva volleyball team continued its struggle to reach the .500 mark last week.
Coach Joe Kuechenmeister’s squad won two of five games at the Class AA Showcase Tournament in Burnsville, dropped a heartbreaking five-set match to Tri-City United and closed the busy week with 3-2-1 mark at the Blue Earth Invitational.
The Panthers are 2-2 in the Gopher Conference and 9-11-3 overall.
Showcase
BURNSVILLE - Facing some tough competition, the Panthers managed a 2-3 record playing in the Showcase Tournament at the Midwest Volleyball Warehouse in Burnsville Sept. 21-22.
“We ran into some great competition here,” said Kuechenmeister. “Our goal was to push some of the best teams in the state to the brink, and we were able to accomplish that.”
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NRHEG gridders blanked at LCWM
NOT THIS TIME — The Panthers’ Nic Goette (71) sacks LCWM quarterback Kolten Barker at Lake Crystal last Friday. (Star Eagle photo by Chris Schlaak)
By DALE KUGATH
Sportswriter
LAKE CRYSTAL – Undefeated Lake Crystal-Wellcome Memorial’s stingy defense made it another tough night for the New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva football team at Lake Crystal Friday.
The Knights held NRHEG to under 100 total yards and shut out the Panthers for the second time in four games in posting a 36-0, Gopher/Valley AA Conference win.
“We simply did not play well tonight,” said NRHEG coach Dan Stork. “We are struggling to play with the intensity necessary to compete at the level we are capable of.”
The loss was the fourth straight for the Panthers, three of them coming in conference play.
LCWM, which nipped the Panthers 13-12 last season, climbed to 2-0 in the conference and 4-0 for the year.
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HOW LOW CAN YOU GO? — The Panthers’ Arionna Neumann goes to the floor for a dig against USC at New Richland last Thursday. The Panthers won 3-0. (Star Eagle photo by Chris Schlaak)
By DALE KUGATH
Sportswriter
Coach Joe Kuechenmeister’s New Richland-Hartland-Ellendale-Geneva volleyball team was able to win just one of three matches last week. The Panthers lost to two teams in front of them in the Gopher Conference standings, and defeated a team below them.
NRHEG suffered a three-game loss to defending state champion Faribault BA and fell to Medford in four games the following night. The Panthers swept United South Central to get back on the winning track.
NRHEG is currently in sixth place in the conference at 2-2 and stands 4-5-2 overall.
“This team has great athletes and competitors. We will get back to the drawing board and keep working hard to improve our weak areas,” said Kuechenmeister. “If and when we put everything together, this team will be special.”