Wapsie Valley snaps D-NH conference winning streak

    DIKE — Wapsie Valley snapped Dike-New Hartford’s 34-match North Iowa Cedar League East Division winning streak last Tuesday with a marathon five-set victory over the Wolverines at Fairbank.
    D-NH rebounded Saturday, winning the extremely-competitive Cedar Falls Tournament for the fourth consecutive year. Nine of the tournament’s 16 teams entered Saturday play ranked in the top 15 of their respective class.
Wapsie Valley 3,
Dike-New Hartford 2
    Wapsie Valley, ranked No. 5 in the latest IGHSAU Class 2A rankings, rallied from a 2-1 deficit to hand the sixth-ranked Wolverines their first conference loss since they fell to the Warriors on Sept. 21, 2010 in Dike. Wapsie won the first set 25-17 before D-NH rallied for 25-17 and 25-21 wins in the second and third sets. The Warriors won the fourth set 25-23 and the fifth 25-11.
    Statistics from last Tuesday’s match were not posted online as of Tuesday morning.
Cedar Falls Tournament
    The Wolverines went 3-0 in pool play, sweeping unranked Des Moines East and unranked Waterloo East before getting a three-set scare from Class 5A No. 13 Marshalltown. The Wolverines and Bobcats swapped 21-19 wins in the first two  sets before D-NH pulled out the deciding set, 15-13.
 
For more of this story see the Oct. 1 Grundy Register.