{"id":5001,"date":"2019-11-22T07:47:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T12:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=5001"},"modified":"2019-11-22T07:48:01","modified_gmt":"2019-11-22T12:48:01","slug":"polk-state-advances-to-semifinals-at-volleyball-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2019\/11\/22\/polk-state-advances-to-semifinals-at-volleyball-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk State advances to semifinals at volleyball championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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With two wins today, Polk State volleyball moves to tomorrow\u2019s semifinals at the NJCAA D1 Volleyball Championship in Hutchinson, Kan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the first round, the fifth-seed Eagles defeated 12th<\/sup>-seed Panola College 3-1<\/a>. After dropping the first set 23-25, the Eagles took the next three, 25-17, 25-22, 25-14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aixa Vigil led the Eagles with 13 kills, 20 digs, and two aces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Milexa Cardona posted a team-high 36 assists to go with six digs and an ace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Manuela Ibarguen made 13 digs, 11 kills, and a pair of aces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Suared Molina contributed 10 digs, eight assists, and an ace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mariane Cassiano tallied 10 digs, nine kills, and two blocks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keren Souza added 11 kills and Nina Finderle had eight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moving to the quarterfinals, the Eagles beat 13th<\/sup>-seed Northeastern Junior College 3-1 (25-16, 20-25, 25-16, 25-19).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cardona led all players in assists (33) and had 10 digs, four kills, and an ace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cassiano recorded 19 digs and 15 kills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vigil contributed 14 digs, 10 kills, two assists, and an ace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ibarguen finished with 16 digs, 12 kills, and an ace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Molina added 14 digs and eight assists, and Finderle tallied three kills and three digs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a semifinal match tomorrow at 7:30 p.m., Polk State (No. 2 NJCAA) faces undefeated No. 1 seed Navarro College (No. 1 NJCAA).  The winner will play for the championship on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With two wins today, Polk State volleyball moves to tomorrow\u2019s semifinals at the NJCAA D1 Volleyball Championship in Hutchinson, Kan.  In the first round, the fifth-seed Eagles defeated 12th-seed Panola… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"31","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polk-state-college-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}