Huron volleyball team competes against Mitchell
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HURON — The Huron Tigers volleyball team came out flat and were unable to mount much offense Tuesday night, absorbing a 3-0 shutout defeat at the hands of the Mitchell Kernels, in ESD action at Huron Arena.
It was the annual “Pink Out” for breast cancer awareness game for the Tigers and a good number of fans - in the student section and in the balcony - showed up in their “We Can, We Will” pink t-shirts.
“I don’t know what to say,” said a stunned Tiger coach Shelly Buddenhagen after the match. “We competed really well last week in Sioux Falls, then come in here on our home court and we absolutely didn’t compete well or compete hard.”
The teams came into the match with Huron holding the No. 5 seeding spot, a half-point and one spot ahead of the Kernels. Huron earned a five-set, knock-down, drag-out nail biter in mid-September. Both teams exited the Arena with identical marks of 14-7 on the season and also have identical power-point totals.
As would be expected from two teams that know each other pretty well, the action throughout the first set was close. The Kernels raced to an early 4-0 lead and maintained it through much of the early going. The lead got to five points, at 10-5, before the Tigers began clawing their way back into contention. Back-to-back kills by Mackenzie Miller pushed the Kernel lead 12-6, but Huron responded with an ace by Kylie Overbay and a kill from Libby Rounds. A Mitchell hitting error and a combined Huron block by Rounds and Tenley Buddenhagen knotted the score at 13-all.
The lead was short lived, however, as first Carly Haring and then Chelsea Brewster pounded home kills to re-establish a lead for the Kernels. A Miller kill made it 21-18 in favor of the visitors, before Alaina Dale knocked home a pair of kills, Overbay laced another ace and Rounds collected a block-kill to knot the score at 22-22.