Lady Indians fall in four sets to Western Nebraska
The McCook Community College volleyball team dropped a critical Region IX South home match Tuesday falling to Western Nebraska 3-1
MCC took the first set 25-11.
“After the first set I thought we were off to a pretty good start, then we just got complacent,” said MCC Coach Hayley Kobza. “We just didn’t show up the last three sets,” said Kobza.
The Lady Indians hit the ball at a .286 rate held the Cougars to a minus .069. MCC had a 72 percent sideout percentage and held Western Nebraska to 32 percent.
MCC lost the second set 25-19, dropped the third set 25-20 and trailed 11-0 in the deciding fourth set before posting their first point on the way to a 25-12 loss.
The Lady Indians hit .086 in the second set, .034 in the third set and .000 in the final set. The sideout rates showed MCC falling to 48 percent in the second set, 41 percent in the third and .36 in the fourth set.
“We seemed to forget how to score on our side and just expected errors on our opponent,” said Kobza.
Sophomore Charlee Russick (Berthoud, Colo.) led MCC with 10 kills on the night to go with 15 digs and a service ace. Peightan Swanson (freshman, Severance, Colo.) had seven kills and one block assist.
Leia Young (freshman Amarillo, Texas) had four kills, three solo blocks, three assist blocks and one ace. Freshman Shana Muller (Gretz-Armainvilliers, France) and one block assist.
“I don’t think any player played amazing and somebody’s going to have to step up eventually, but nobody did that tonight,” said Kobza.
Freshman Zoe Mulholland (Lander, Wyo.) led MCC with 11 assists on the night with two digs. Landree McNair (freshman, Imperial) was credited with eight assists, nine digs, one kill, and two service aces.
Freshman Libby Cole (Grant), had six assists. Brooke Nelson (Berthoud, Colo.) had six digs and one service ace.
Paulina Fister (sophomore, Tuszyn, Poland) had two service aces, two kills and three digs. Freshman Bobbi Starkebaum (Haxtun, Colo.) had two kills, two digs and two block assists.
Western Nebraska remains in second place in the Region IX South standings at 8-2 (10-18 overall).
MCC falls to fourth place in the standings with a 6-4 record and 10-14 overall. Only the top four teams in the Region IX South standings at the end of the season will advance to the Region IX tournament to face the top four teams in the Region IX North division.
In other Region IX South action Tuesday, fifth place North Platte (4-9) was a 3-0 winner over last place Southeast Community College (0-9) and first place Northeastern Junior College (10-0) won 3-0 at Lamar (3-7).
MCC will face the No. 4 Northeastern Plainswomen (24-3 overall) at home Thursday starting at 6 p.m.
Up-to-date information about MCC volleyball including livestream links, schedule, statistics, rosters, photos and more can be found on the MCC Athletics website, www.mccindians.com
REGION IX SOUTH STANDINGS
Northeastern JC 10 - 0 1.000 24-3 (.888)
Western Nebraska 8 - 2 .800 10-18 (.357)
Trinidad State 6 - 3 .667 13-11 (.542)
McCook CC 6 - 4 .600 10-14 (.417)
North Platte 4 - 5 .444 10-14 (.417)
Lamar
Otero College 1 -8 .111 3-18 (.143)
Southeast 0 - 9 .000 5-30 (.143)
TUEDAY RESULTS
Western Nebraska 3, McCook CC 1 (at McCook)
North Platte 3, Southeast CC 0 (at Lincoln)
Northeastern JC 3, Lamar 0 (at Lamar)
THURSDAY SCHEDULE
Northeastern JC at McCook, 6 p.m.
REMAINING MCC SCHEDULE
Oct. 24 – Southeast CC at McCook, 6 p.m. (Sophomore night)
Oct. 26 – North Platte at McCook CC, 2 p.m.
Oct. 30 – McCook CC at Lamar, 6 p.m.