COLBY, Kan. – Strong play leading to three-straight match victories would finally come to an end for the Cloud County Community College volleyball team on Saturday afternoon as the T-Birds would drop a five-set decision to Colby Community College inside the Colby Community Center on October 16th.
 
With five matches remaining in the regular season, Cloud County is now 14-13 overall and 4-9 in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference while Colby improved to 14-11 overall and a 7-6 mark in the KJCCC.
 
Scores of the match would see Cloud County win the first set by a 25-22 margin and the fourth set by a 25-21 set score while dropping the second set 25-20 and third set 13-25 to set up a decisive fifth set. The Trojans would jump out by scoring five of the first six points in the fifth and never looked back as part of a 15-4 win over the T-Birds to sweep the season series.
 
Finishing with a team-best 10 kills each would be sophomore Geraldyn Palacios and freshman Kenzie Cooper as the pair would combine for 20 of Cloud County's 44 kills in the match. After committing just one attack error in the opening set, the T-Birds would struggle in the second, third, and fourth sets by committing 15 attack errors over the course of the three-set stretch.
 
Running a two-setter system throughout the match, CCCC would get a team-best 23 set assists from Kylie Fuller along with 14 from Mariah Janda as Fuller would also add a team-high 27 digs. Natasha Dooley would add 23 digs and two of Cloud County's four service aces with the remaining two service aces from the T-Birds coming from Camryn Wessel.
 
What's Next?
Cloud County kicks off the final two-week stretch of the regular season with a pair of home matches as part of a four-match week this upcoming week on Monday, October 18th against a pair of non-conference opponents. CCCC will take on Hesston College at 3:30 PM in the opening match of a home triangular before taking on Southeast Community College in the nightcap at 7:30 PM. The opening match will mark the second time this season that the T-Birds have squared off with Hesston while the match with the storm will be the first of the season between the two teams.