By John RittenhouseThe Hills-Beaver Creek volleyball team snapped a three-match losing skid with a come-from-behind victory over Luverne in Hills Monday.The situation didn’t look good for the Patriots when they lost the first two games to the Cardinals.H-BC, however, bounced back to outscore Luverne 65-52 the rest of the night to take the final three games in a thrilling, five-game match.The Patriots appeared on the verge of being swept by LHS when they fell behind 9-3 in Game 3, but the hosts battled back to knot the score at 15 when Cassi Tilstra delivered a service point.After taking a 19-17 lead when senior Kelly Mulder came up with a block at the net, H-BC let its first lead of the game slip away when Luverne mounted a 5-1 run to take a 22-20 lead.H-BC, however, broke Luverne’s serve before senior Brittney Rozeboom served a four-point run to give the Patriots a 25-22 win.The momentum H-BC gained by winning Game 3 carried into the fourth game, when the Patriots raced to a 6-1 lead with Kari Roozenboom capping the run with an ace serve.A kill by Mulder extended H-BC’s lead to eight points (17-9) as the game progressed, but Luverne countered with an 11-6 spurt to trail 23-20 late in the game. The Patriots regained their poise and closed out a 25-21 victory when Mulder delivered a kill.Rozenboom served H-BC to a 3-0 lead it would never relinquish in the fifth game.Luverne trimmed the difference to one point (5-4) and trailed by two (9-7) as the game progressed, but H-BC ended the game with a 6-2 run capped by Melinda Feucht’s service point to notch a 15-9 victory.Feucht gave the Patriots 3-1 and 9-7 leads with a service point and a kill respectively in Game 1. Luverne, however, rallied to score 16 of the game’s final 23 points to secure a 25-16 win.A service point by Rooozenboom gave H-BC a 6-1 lead in the second game, and the Patriots extended the difference to seven points (13-6) when Rozeboom delivered a service point.Luverne then rallied with a 19-7 run to win the game by a 25-20 margin.Mulder led the winners with 19 kills and nine blocks, while Tilstra charted seven kills, seven blocks and was 16 of 16 serving with two aces. Rozeboom completed all 12 of her serves in the match. Roozenboom, who had four kills, was 14 of 15 serving with four aces.
