MCC Volleyball falls in five sets to WNCC

SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. – The McCook Community College volleyball team took Western Nebraska to five sets Wednesday but dropped the match in a battle between two of the three remaining unbeaten teams in Region IX South.

 

Western Nebraska won 25-19, 23-25, 23-25, 25-21 and 15-13.

 

“We just didn’t play clean tonight,” said MCC Coach Hayley Kobza. “We had a total of 50 unforced errors, which is pretty much half a match.”

 

For the match the Lady Indians were guilty of 35 hitting errors, seven service errors and seven serve receive errors. MCC hit .125 for the match to .232 for Western Nebraska.

 

After the Cougars took the first set, MCC battled to win the second and third sets. Both those sets featured nine tie scores with the second set having four lead changes and the third set two lead changes. In the fourth set, the two teams exchanged the lead nine times with 14 tie scores.

 

“Overall, I thought we passed well on serve receive and with that we should have played cleaner at the net,” said Kobza.

 

Freshman Relebohile Phamotse (Maseru, Lesotho) led the Lady Indian offense with 21 kills, to go along with five digs and one service ace.

 

Jade Powell (freshman, Sterling, Colo.) had 13 kills, 12 digs, one solo block and three assist blocks. Shana Muller (sophomore, Gretz-Armainvilliers, France) added 13 kills and one assist block.

 

Bobbi Starkebaum (sophomore, Haxtun, Colo.) had four kills and two block assists. Tanna Bailey (freshman, Stoneham, Colo.) chipped in a pair of kills, one solo block and three assist blocks while freshman Maggie Fiene (Conestoga High School) was credited with three kills

 

Freshman libero Paula Urizar (Guatemala City, Guatemala) led MCC with 19 digs.

 

Sophomore setter Zoe Mulholland (Lander, Wyo.) had 23 assists, nine digs and three service aces while freshman setter Cheyanne Ortiz (Pueblo, Colo.) dished out 22 assists with four digs and three aces.

 

WNCC goes to 14-10 and 5-0 in the south region

 

MCC falls to 12-11 and 5-1.

 

On Friday the Lady Indians will host the other unbeaten team in the south as No. 19 Northeastern Junior College comes to town. The Plainswomen are 5-0 in the south and 16-6 overall. That match will mark the half-way point of the region slate with seven matches remaining for MCC including four of the seven at home.

 

Up-to-date information about MCC volleyball including up-to-date schedule and changes, livestream links for home games, rosters, photos, statistics and more can be found on the MCC Athletics website, www.mccindians.com