Huron volleyball team competes against Brookings Bobcats
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BROOKINGS — The Huron Tigers volleyball team continued its strong play Tuesday night, taking a 3-0 shutout win over the Brookings Bobcats in ESD volleyball action.
The teams both participated in Huron’s Invitational last weekend, but did not meet in the four-team round robin event. Huron finished 4-0 on Saturday, while Brookings finished 1-3.
Huron won in straight sets, 25-17, 29-27 and 25-21, but as the scores show, the match was close throughout.
“This was a good win for us tonight,” said Tiger coach Shelly Buddenhagen after the match. We knew were were going to be for a battle, and we knew we needed to remain calm and do what we want to do and need to do to be successful.”
Huron got off to a good start in the first set, spinning a Hollee Niehus block and a Morgan Harrison ace serve to a quick 4-1 lead. While the Huron lead ballooned at times to five points on two occasions, the Tigers couldn’t shake the Bobcats, who continually found a way to claw their way back into the match.
A Niehus block-kill pushed the lead to 19-15 for Huron, and after a Brookings score, Mikena Moore sandwiched a pair of kills around a Brookings hitting error for a 22-16 Tiger lead.
A service error on the Bobcats, a Tenley Buddenhagen kill and another mishit by Brookings and Huron had the first set.
The second set was a near mirror image, as the Bobcats staked themselves to an early lead and fought off Huron throughout the match.
After a Bobcat hitting error cut the lead to 9-7 for the home team, Brookings ran the next five points for a 14-7 lead and spurred coach Buddenhagen to call a timeout.
“We got in trouble there in the first part of the second set,” Buddenhagen agreed. “They controlled us and carved us up because they were keeping us from doing what we wanted to do. During the timeout we talked about doing what we needed to do to get things going our way again, then went out and did it.”
PHOTO BY TROY MARONEY/BROOKINGS REGISTER
Huron’s Libby Rounds (22) hits the ball past Brookings’ Regan Weisbeck (6) and Kylie Tucker (3) for a kill during the first set of the Tigers’ Eastern South Dakota Conference sweep of the Bobcats on Tuesday night at the BHS Auxiliary Gymnasium.