Lady Indians drop first home match of year to Western Nebraska

Lady Indians drop first home match of year to Western Nebraska

The McCook Community College volleyball team dropped its first home match of the season Friday losing in straight sets to 17^th ranked Western Nebraska 19-25, 12-25, 17-25.

"Tonight we couldn't compete because we were competing with ourselves, we weren't even competing with the other team," said MCC Coach Hayley Kobza.

Western Nebraska leads the Region IX south-sub region with a 4-0 mark (21-5 overall.) MCC falls to 3-2 and 18-8 overall. With Otero Junior College's Friday sweep over Lamar, the Rattlers take over second place in the conference with a 3-1 record.

"We had plans tonight to execute with a purpose, and a plan for what we needed to do in order to win and we were unable to do that because we were battling ourselves individually and that resulted in us not playing as a team," Kobza said.

Freshman Fernanda Canedo, (Cochabamba, Boliva) had nine kills and 12 digs. Freshman Kallie Cathcart, (Holly, Colo.) had six kills and four assist blocks.

Freshman Emily Barr, (Hershey) had four kills and two assist blocks. Sophomore Bailey Honn, (McCook) had four kills.

Sophomore Kiera Barr, (Granby, Colo.) led MCC with 18 digs.

All three freshmen setters saw action Friday. Heiata Tauota, (Nantes, France) had 11 assists, Chandler Nelson, (Colorado Springs) had six and Madison Mendoza, (Ogallala) four.

The Lady Indians will take on North Platte Tuesday at home in the annual Pink-Out game for breast cancer awareness. Also up for grabs is the Nebraska Community College Athletic Conference Title. MCC leads with a 5-0 mark, North Platte is 3-1 in conference and 11-17 overall. MCC won a five-set match in North Platte Oct. 2.

For more photographs from tonight's game, please visit the McCook Community College Facebook Page at: https://www.facebook.com/MPCCMcCook/

For the latest on MCC volleyball and all MCC sports including, schedules, rosters, photographs, and other news, please check out the official home of MCC Athletics at: https://mccindians.com/index.aspx?path=wvball

If you can make it to the game, you can watch it at https://mccindians.com/sports/2016/11/10/tw.aspx?tab=tribewatch

REGION IX SOUTH SUB-REGION STANDNGS
(Sub-Region.) OVERALL
Western Neb. 4-0 1.000 21-5 .808
Otero JC 3-1 .750 15-6 .717
McCook 3-2 .600 18-8 .692
Northeastern 1-1 .500 14-6 .700
Lamar CC 0-4 .000 3-16 .158
Trinidad JC 0-3 .000 6-18 .250

REGION IX SOUTH WEEKEND SCHEDULE, RESULTS
FRIDAY Western Nebraska 3, McCook 0
Otero JC 3, Lamar 0
Trinidad State at Northeastern JC, 8 p.m.
SATURDAY Otero JC at Northeastern JC, 4 p.m.
Trinidad State at Lamar CC, 6 p.m.