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Box Score 2 BEATRICE, Neb. – Earning a third-straight win to open the season with a four-set victory over Coffeyville Community College, the Cloud County Community College volleyball team would suffer a three-set defeat to Central Community College to close out the RKP Invitational hosted by Southeast Community College inside the Truman Center Gymnasium on Saturday, August 20th.
Finishing the weekend with a 3-1 overall record, the Thunderbirds saw four of the five sets dropped on the day come by just two points each which included a 30-28 first-set defeat to the Raiders of Central CC in the second match of the day. Scores of the match against Coffeyville were 23-25, 25-14, 25-12, and 25-15 in favor of CCCC while the second match would see the set scores of 30-28, 25-23, and 25-22 go in favor of Central.
Leading the way for Cloud County in their match against Coffeyville offensively would be a 14-kill performance from
Madison Ronnebaum who would commit just two attack errors in the match and record a .571 attack percentage on 22 attack attempts while adding one solo block and six digs. Also recording double-digit kills against the Red Ravens would be sophomore
Kenzie Cooper with 10 kills while
Marcella Garcia would finish with 11 kills to give CCCC three players with double-digit kills. The two would combine for five total blocks (three solo blocks) as the T-Birds would finish the day match with four solo blocks as part of a nine-block performance. Leading the way in set assists would be
Katelynn Brogan with 28 assists in addition to six kills on 15 attack attempts with no attack errors.
Against Central CC, the T-Birds would commit just 10 total attack errors compared to 45 kills on 113 total attempts for a .310 attack percentage as the Raiders would take advantage at the service line and have an efficient offensive attack to counteract CCCC. The lone Cloud County player to record double-digit kills in the match against Central CC would be freshman
Doga Eski with 14 kills while Cooper would finish with nine and
Camryn Wessel would finish with seven kills and a .333 attack percentage. Brogan once again would finish as the team leader in set assists with 19 while
Brette Doile recorded 14 assists as the two would account for 33 of CCCC's 37 assists. After having nine total team blocks in their first match against Coffeyville, the T-Birds would record just one solo block by Wessel and three total blocks in the match.
What's Next?
A season-opening four-match road stand concludes on Wednesday, August 24th as Cloud County will head to El Dorado, Kansas to take on fifth-ranked and defending Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference champion Butler Community College with a 6 PM match inside the Power Plant. The Grizzlies opened their 2022 campaign in Council Bluffs, Iowa this weekend, dropping four matches to NJCAA Division I Top-20 ranked teams including number one and defending National Champion Iowa Western and third-ranked Missouri State-West Plains.
