CHANUTE, Kan. – Falling by a score of 25-22 in a close opening set, the number 10 nationally ranked Cloud County Community College volleyball team would storm back to win the next three sets and down Neosho County Community College in four sets in Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference action in Chanute, Kansas on Monday, October 14th.

Picking up their sixth win in their past seven matches, Cloud County improves to 21-5 overall with the win and 4-3 in the KJCCC while the Panthers fell to 13-17 overall and 0-7 in conference play.

Hoping to avoid a slow start that has plagued CCCC for the better part of the year, Cloud County would be unable to avoid the issue as the host Panthers would come out and find a way to utilize the home crowd atmosphere to pull out a 25-22 victory on the T-Birds to open the match. Cloud County would then be able to bounce back with a 25-19 victory in the second set by putting together a run midway through the set to even the match at 1-1 as the third set would look to set the tone for the rest of match.

In the third set, CCCC would waste no time jumping out all over the Panthers and never looking back as part of a 25-14 set victory which would put Cloud County just one set away from the win. Closing out the match would be anything but easy however, as the Panthers would keep things close with the T-Birds in the fourth set with neither team able to get much of a lead on the other. Cloud County would manage to maintain a lead in the one to three-point range before eventually putting together enough points late to secure a 25-21 set victory to end the match.

Putting together a monster match, sophomore Dayana Chara would record a season-high with 30 kills while recording just five attack errors and add 13 digs to go along with two blocks. Being able to stay within their offensive set all evening, the T-Birds would get 59 of their 61 assists from freshman Riley Bontrager while Emelys Martinez recorded 20 digs, 18 kills, and two service aces in the match.

What's Next?

The last remaining ranked opponent on the regular-season slate in number five-ranked Fort Scott Community College is next in store for Cloud County on Wednesday, October 16th at 6:30 p.m. The T-Birds will be looking for their third win of the year against a top 10 opponent, and second in as many weeks as the Greyhounds will enter with a 26-4 overall record and 7-1 mark in the KJCCC.