HURON — In a match that featured everything except the kitchen sink, the Huron Tigers post a come-from-behind 3-2 win over the Mitchell Kernels in ESD Conference volleyball action at Huron Arena. Set scores for the Tigers were 25-8, 13-25, 23-25, 25-19 and 15-5.

“We had a night of ups and downs tonight,” said Huron coach Josh Lien after the match. “When we win the serve and pass game we win the set. When we don’t, we don’t. And that was the story tonight.”

Huron improves to 8-12 with the win while Mitchell falls to 3-18 and saw its post season light on the point of being extinguished.

The Kernels’ wheels came off the bus nearly from the opening serve of the first set, quickly jumping out to an 11-2 lead as six different Tigers dented the scorebook. And it never got any closer as Huron used several 4 and 5 point runs to pull away for a dominant 25-8 set win.

Samantha Mangmoradeth led the charge, garnering three kills in the first half of the set and clocking five big swings in the set, and Aly Davis closed the set with a kill down the line.

“In that first set and even in later sets you could tell how we were going to go by those early swings,” Lien noted. “If we were swinging good it was either a kill or a close error and we got a lead and relaxed. When we struggled to receive serve and pass, we didn’t get the clean swings and we played from behind.”

Mitchell regrouped between the sets and the second set was close in the early going, as a kill by Addy Knight and an ace from Jencie Goergen, and a Mangmoradeth kill forged a 7-7 tie.

But Audrey Miller kick started a 5-0 Mitchell run that was punctuated by a kill from Kernel seventh-grader Nia Talley as the Kernels forged a lead.

A kill by Aurora Dreyer cut the lead to five points, at 15-10, bu the Kernels ran the next seven points, complements of Addie Siemsen and Kenzie Hetland and Mitchell cruised to the 25-13 win.

Huron jumped out early in the third set, as Knight and Chloe Carr got the Tigers started well, but Hetland and Lauren VanOverschelde rallied the Kernels and the score remained close through the middle of the set.

Mitchell led 16-14 when Huron ran four straight points - the last two by Knight - to take an 18-16 lead and spark a Mitchell timeout. Out of the break, Miller had two kills and Talley had one to put Mitchell back into the lead and the teams traded points until two untimely errors by the Tigers gave the set to the Kernels, 25-23.

While the fourth set score was not as impressive as the first, Huron played solid volleyball, as they never trailed in the set. Mangmoradeth, Dreyer and Davis feasted on kills and Hailey Rogers stroked an ace to get Huron rolling. Mitchell managed to tie the game twice late, but down the stretch it was too much Davis and Carr as Huron rolled, 25-19, scoring the final five points of the match and forcing a fifth set.

The fifth set mimic the first almost like it was on rewind, as Mangmoradeth and Dreyer sandwiched kills around a Knight ace. Another Dreyer kill, a Rogers ace and a Carr big swing put Huron up 9-3 and Huron was never threatened as they romped to the 15-5 win.

“We asked Aurora (Dreyer) for a bit more in the fourth and fifth sets tonight and she really stepped up and helped us get that cushion,” said Lien. “Sam had a good night hitting the ball as did Addy, Chloe and Aly.”

In the match, Mangmoradeth shared game-high kill honors as she pounded home 14 in the match. Knight and Dreyer each had 11, Carr and Davis each had nine and Rogers ended with four aces.

Mitchell was led by Siemsen’s 14 kills, Miller had 12 and Hetland added 11 for Mitchell.

Eight Tiger seniors played their final home match at Huron Arena Tuesday night, as Kirsten DeGeest, Madalyn Grace,

Ashlyn Grace, Mangmoradeth, Paige Sherron, Maddy Jurgens and Dreyer closed their Arena careers.

Huron has a home match next Tuesday, however it is on Nov. 5, so Huron Arena is reserved for the election. Huron will host second-ranked O’Gorman at the Huron Middle School gymnasium.