Mater Dei flexes its muscles

Edwardsville - It may be early in the season, but Mater Dei Knights were in the form of mid-season by claiming the championship of the Tiger Classic for the second consecutive year.

Brooke Schulte had seven kills and added six kills Kayla Eversgerd as the Knights beat the Tigers Edwardsville 25-15, 25-17 Saturday in the championship game.

It was a battle of the top two teams in the Metro East and perhaps two of the best in the country.

The Knights were ranked 29th in the nation, while the Tigers were ranked 38th in a preseason Top 100 poll by prepvolleyball.com.

"These are the kind of games that these girls love to play," said Mater Dei coach Chad Rakers, who has taken over the helm of the defending Class 3A state champion Knights from his father, Fred Rakers. "Intensity and that feeling you get after a win like that is why you play game. That's why these girls play the game, and I also know that is why those Edwardsville girls play the game."

The Knights (7-0) never got pushed to three games in winning their five matches in the tournament, but Rakers downplayed his team's dominance.

"I wouldn't call that a march or rolling over ... Edwardsville is the real deal, and this was their first weekend of volleyball," Rakers said. "This is their first five matches, and they had to play them all in two days. They didn't have any practices in between to make adjustments."

The Tigers (4-1) committed a whopping 35 errors in the match.

"We've been battling unforced errors the whole weekend," Edwardsville coach Jami Parker said. "It has been something we have been talking about the whole weekend, but to have 35, I hadn't expected that at all."

Parker said most of those mistakes are correctable.

"Mater Dei is a great team.I do not take something away from Mater Dei, but when you have 35 errors, it's something we can fix, it's something we can go back and work on, "said Parker." Serve receive and hitting, we can fix on our side. We're just going to come back and hit the gym and cleaning.

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Mater Dei flexes its muscles

Edwardsville is the real deal, and this was their first weekend of volleyball," Rakers said. "This is their first five matches, and they had to play them all in two days. They didn't have any practices in between to make adjustments.



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