Lady Indians improve to 8-2 in conference with sweep

The McCook Community College Volleyball team swept Otero College at home Thursday night to improve to 8-2 in the Region IX South standings. MCC won 25-18, 25-9, 25-10.

 

“We started off a little rough and called a timeout and had a little reset, and after that we played up to our level,” said MCC Coach Hayley Kobza.

 

The Lady Indians hit .265 in the first set and improved to .348 in the second set and polished off the match of hitting .429 in the final set.

 

Sophomore Shana Muller (Gretz-Armainvilliers, France) led the offensive attack with nine kills and hit .500 on 14 attacks. Freshman Jade Powell Sterling, Colo.) had eight kills and led the defense with 15 digs.

 

Tanna Bailey (freshman, Stoneham, Colo.) had five kills. Freshman Relebohile Phamotse (Maseru, Lesotho) was credited with four kills and eight digs.

 

“I saw a lot of good things from Relo,” said Kobza. “Usually we see her on the offensive side, but tonight she served really well and was passing and digging balls and that was cool to see.”

 

Sophomore Bobbi Starkebaum (Haxtun, Colo.) led the Tribe with four solo blocks and one block assist to go along with three kills.

 

“We worked a lot on blocking this week and saw a lot of improvement in that area tonight,” said Kobza.

 

Paula Urizar (freshman, Guatemala City, Guatemala) had nine digs. Sophomore Anna Richardson (Worland, Wyo.) had a pair of digs and two aces.

 

Sophomore Zoe Mulholland (Lander, Wyo.) was credited with eight digs and led MCC with 16 assists from the setting position with three service aces. Freshman Cheyanne Ortiz (Pueblo, Colo.) had 10 assists, two service aces and six digs.

 

“I think that was our biggest goal today was to play MCC Volleyball and it doesn’t matter how anybody else is doing,” said Kobza. “We’re going to play like we do in practice and I thought we did really well doing that."

 

The Rattlers fall to 1-8 in the south standings and 4-18 for the season.

 

MCC improves to 8-2 and remains in third place in the Region IX South standings behind 9-0 Northeastern JC and 8-1 Western Nebraska. MCC goes to 15-12 on the season.

 

The Lady Indians will honor six sophomores Saturday prior to the noon game against Trinidad State.

 

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