Hello-
Well, we started the weekend off with a nice win over Northland. We played pretty well the 2nd and 3rd set, after winning the first set in extra time. So we started out the UMAC season with a win! Then we played a very talented Concordia-Moorhead team late Friday night and played very, very well in sets 2-4, winning the 2nd set in a 25-23 nail biter before falling in 4 to the #25 ranked team in NCAA Division III.
Saturday morning started with a 2-set sweep by our JV squad over the #1 ranked team in the National Junior College Athletic Association DIII rankings- Ridgewater College, who, I might add, was also 16-0! Then we defeated Bismarck State and Williston State (minus a couple of players that came back for our St. Scholastica match) both 2-0. We fell to the Jamestown JV in 3 sets (winning the 2nd set) to finish 2nd of 8 schools, a very, very good showing!
St. Scholastica was tough and they have 2 outsides that played amazing! With 34 kills and only 5 hitting errors, they carried the team to a 3 set victory over us, but not before we played them tough in the first and third sets, even pushing them to a 27-27 tie before losing the 3rd set and the match.
We've got a couple of things we are planning to work on for this coming week but it doesn't get any easier as we face Northwestern, the 3-time defending UMAC regular season champions on the road this Thursday.
Gotta run now-- thanks for all your support and Go Cougars!
Coach B
PS- check out these great photos on the Cougar website--
