Cardinals Sweep Their Way To Top Seed

CARRINGTON (NewsDakota)- In a matchup of unbeaten region teams, the May Port-CG Patriots jumped all over Carrington on Monday night, scoring nine of the first eleven points. Then, the Cardinal Red tsunami arrived.  And it simply never stopped. Carrington roared back in the opening set en route to clinching the 1-seed in the Region 2A Tournament with a sweep (25-17, 25-13, 25-10) over the Patriots inside the East Gymnasium to set the regular season program record for wins. It simply could not have started better for May Port-CG (23-9, 10-2 Region 2A) as UND signee Payton Strand accounted for four kills and two blocks during the opening 9-2 run.  From there, the Cards (33-2, 12-0 Region 2A) would score seventeen of the next nineteen points on service runs by senior Journey Peltier and sophomore Mya Neis.  The only two points for the Patriots during the run came on service errors.  The set ended on a kill by senior Harper Kollman. The second set was a continuation of the first, with the C