Lady Indians split matches at Hutchinson
HUTCHINSON, Kan. – The McCook Community College volleyball team split a pair of matches Friday in the Blue Dragon Classic at Hutchinson. MCC dropped the first match to hosts 3-1 and came back to beat Iowa Western 3-2.
The Blue Dragons came out and dominated the Lady Indians in the first set of the day.
“We got started off a little rough in our first match against Hutch, and we just couldn't minimize our mistakes,” said MCC Coach Hayley Kobza. “We then played again right after and competed well.”
MCC goes to 12-4 on the season and will continue play in the tournament Saturday taking on Missouri State University-West Plains (11-4) at 10 a.m. and Butler Community College (8-9) at noon.
“We played volleyball for pretty much a straight five hours,” said Kobza. “We are going to get a solid night’s rest and reset for tomorrow.”
The Lady Indians return home Tuesday to face North Platte in a 6 p.m. match at the Peter and Dolores Graff Events Center.
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
HUTCHINSON CC 3, McCOOK CC 1: The Blue Dragons came won the first set 25-10 but MCC came back to take the second set 25-23. After getting down 9-4 in the third set, the Lady Indians went up 22-21 but lost 25-22. Again, in the fourth set Hutchinson went up 14-8 before MCC went on a 9-2 run to lead 17-16 but the hosts were able to close out the set 25-20. Hutchinson improved to 10-7 with the win.
Sophomore Romina Martinez Castro (Cochabamba, Bolivia) led the attack with 19 kills and added eight digs. Caylin Barnett (sophomore, McCook) had nine kills, 13 digs and two blocks. Freshman Ailynn Wright (Sterling, Colo.) had three kills, two aces and eight digs.
Rowan Tribelhorn (sophomore Yuma, Colo.) had four kills and two blocks while freshman Ella Verts (Marshall, Mo.) had two blocks.
Sophomore Charlee Russick (Berthoud, Colo.) had nine digs and a kill while sophomore Emerie Rios (Sterling, Colo.) had a pair of kills and an ace.
Cibeles Bothwell (sophomore, Spring, Texas) led MCC with 26 digs and added an assist.
Freshman Megan Walker (Haxtun, Colo.) led the Lady Indians with 23 set assists and added six digs, a kill and a block. Freshman Abby Thompson (Bison, S.D.) had five assists and two digs.
McCOOK CC 3, IOWA WESTERN CC 2: The Reivers won the opener 25-23 and the Lady Indians rolled to a 25-10 win in the second set and 25-21 in the third. Iowa Western prevailed 25-20 in the fourth set and MCC seized the match with a 15-11 fifth-set win.
The Reivers fell to 9-7 as MCC completed the season sweep over the Reivers, having won 3-1 at MCC’s Labor Day weekend tournament.
Charlee Russick led MCC in the match with 16 kills, seven digs and two blocks. Martinez had eight kills, 16 digs, three blocks and an ace. Caylin Barnett had 10 kills, seven digs, one block and an ace.
Rowan Tribelhorn had eight kills, five assist blocks and a solo. Freshman Audrey Holm (Paxton) was credited with two kills, two blocks and three digs.
Abby Thompson had 28 assists, six digs, one kill, a block and an ace. Megan Walker had seven assists.
Cibeles Bothwell (Spring, Texas) had 21 digs and three aces.