#2 Hawley and #1 DGF Advance in Section 8AA Volleyball Tuesday in Moorhead

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The Section 8AA Volleyball Semi-Finals were held Tuesday 10/29/24 at the Moorhead High School.  In Game 1…#1 Seed DGF and #5 Seed Barnesville had a back and forth battle, and in 5 Sets the #1 Seed Rebels held on for a 3-2 victory…25-20, 23-25, 14-25, 25-18, 15-12.  With DGF advancing, the other Semi-Final match had #2 Seed Hawley Nuggets play the #3 Seed Wadena-Deer Creek Wolverines, with the winner taking on DGF Saturday.  In the Matchup, Hawley and WDC were tied at 8, when the Nuggets pulled away and finished on a 17-9 run to take the First Set 25-17.  In the Second, the match was tied at 6, when WDC went on a 19-12 run to tie the Matchup at 1-1, with a 25-18 win in Set 2.  The Third Set was the closest with the last tie at 18, before Hawley went on a 7-3 run to go up 2 Sets to 1….25-21.  In the Fourth, WDC open with the first 6 points and never looked back, up at one point, 20-11 and went on for 15-17 win and sent us to the Fifth and deciding Set.  After a 1-0 WDC lead, Hawley scored the next 5 points, to go up 5-1 and also had another 5-0 run to go up13-6, before finishing it off with a 15-9, 5^th Set win and taking the Matchup 3-2….25-17, 18-25, 25-21, 17-25, 15-9.  Hawley advances to take on DGF at the Moorhead High School on Saturday 11/2/24 at 7pm on KRCQ-Real Country 102.3, for the right to head to the State Tournament next week.  Sophomore Audrina Liebenow was named the Muscatell Burns Ford MVP of the game.