{"id":22262,"date":"2025-11-04T13:03:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=22262"},"modified":"2025-11-04T13:03:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T19:03:54","slug":"lake-land-college-wins-region-xxiv-volleyball-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/volleyball\/22262-lake-land-college-wins-region-xxiv-volleyball-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake Land College Wins Region XXIV Volleyball Championship."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-22263 additional-class\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LLC.RegionXXIVChamps.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1801\" height=\"1043\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LLC.RegionXXIVChamps.jpg 1801w, https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LLC.RegionXXIVChamps-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LLC.RegionXXIVChamps-1024x593.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LLC.RegionXXIVChamps-768x445.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/LLC.RegionXXIVChamps-1536x890.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1801px) 100vw, 1801px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Lake Land College won the Region XXIV Championship. Members of the team are, front row, left to right, Alisa Rodionova, Moscow, Russia; Ammber Medina, Tampa, Florida; Reese Brunken, Carterville; Sydney Walker, Decatur and Danielle Probst, Teutopolis. Back row, left to right, Volleyball Assistant Coach Elizabeth Vanneste, Mattoon; Volleyball Head Coach Lainey Jackson, Mattoon; Ceylin Sar, Ismir, Turkey; Bella Austin, Effingham; Charlotte Wilkerson, Charleston; Tessa Seely, Sullivan; TaNeal Einhorn, Teutopolis; Beronica De Oleo, Dominican Republic; Haley Podkul, Mokena and Addison Urbanski, LaSalle.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Lake Land College volleyball team defeated the Vincennes University Trailblazers Sunday to claim the Lakers\u2019 first Region XXIV Championship since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers jumped to an early advantage in the match and secured the win in four sets, 25-19, 25-20, 25-27, 29-27. The victory marked an impressive upset for the third-seeded Lakers over the top-seeded Trailblazers, who were looking to clinch their fifth consecutive Region XXIV title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re incredibly proud of our volleyball team for capping off another strong year with this impressive victory,\u201d Director of Athletics Bill Jackson said. \u201cOur Laker teams across all sports have enjoyed a lot of recent success, and this is just the latest example of the hard work and dedication our athletes, coaches, trainers and staff across the College have put in to making Lake Land a top-tier destination for community college athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lake Land opened the tournament Saturday, Nov. 1 against Frontier Community College, defeating the Bobcats 3-1 before besting John A. Logan College 3-0 to reach the championship round.<\/p>\n<p>Several area players are competing for the Lakers and those include Bella Austin (Effingham), TaNeal Einhorn (Teutopolis) and Danielle Probst (Teutopolis).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Lake Land College won the Region XXIV Championship. Members of the team are, front row, left to right, Alisa Rodionova, Moscow, Russia; Ammber Medina, Tampa, Florida; Reese Brunken, Carterville; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-22262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volleyball","tag-sports-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Lake Land College Wins Region XXIV Volleyball Championship. - Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader, 979XFM and KJ Country 102.3<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Effingham&#039;s News and Sports Leader\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/volleyball\/22262-lake-land-college-wins-region-xxiv-volleyball-championship\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Lake Land College Wins Region XXIV Volleyball Championship. - 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