Hills-Beaver Creek senior Sarah Rozeboom comes up empty when trying to keep the ball in play during Thursday's home volleyball match against Mountain Lake-Butterfield-Odin. Rozeboom had two kills and completed all five of her serves in a 3-0 loss to the Wolverines.
By John Rittenhouse
Hills-Beaver Creek was unable to break into the win column in Red Rock Conference volleyball play when it hosted Mountain Lake-Butterfield-Odin for a league match Thursday.
The Patriots played well at times in the match, especially in the third game.
ML-B-O, however, rose to the challenge whenever the situation called for it while posting a 3-0 win.
H-BC put up a good fight in Game 3, when it turned a 5-2 deficit into a 9-5 lead by putting together a 7-0 run.
Angie Sjaarda served a four-point run during the rally that featured two ace blocks and one kill by Erin Boeve. Boeve served the next three points with Sarah Rozeboom providing one kill.
It seemed like the Patriots were in control of the third game with a four-point cushion, but the Wolverines bounced back to score the next 10 points to post a 15-9 win.
ML-B-O scored the first three points in Game 1 before going on a 9-1 surge to open a 12-1 cushion.
A pair of service points by Melinda Sandstede, a kill by Kelly Mulder and an ace serve by Angie Bush trimmed ML-B-O's lead to seven points (12-5), but the Wolverines scored the next three points to ice a 15-5 victory.
ML-B-O scored the first four points of the second game before going on an 8-3 run while opening a 12-3 lead.
The score was 14-4 when H-BC put together a 5-0 run consisting of one service point from Melissa Fagerness and two kills, one ace tip and one point from Boeve to make it a 14-9 difference before ML-B-O clinched a 15-9 win.
Boeve led the Patriots with 14 kills and six blocks in the match, while Mulder added two kills and one ace.
Rozeboom (five of five), Cassi Tilstra (three of three) and Sandstede (seven of seven) were perfect at the service line. Rozeboom charted two kills.
Patriot coach Curt Doorneweerd credited Fagerness for displaying outstanding hustle during the match.