Hills-Beaver Creek senior setter Melinda Sandstede tips the ball over the net during Monday’s home volleyball match against Lake Benton. Sandstede served three aces during a 3-0 victory.By John RittenhouseThe Hills-Beaver Creek volleyball team ran its record to 16-5 with a 3-0 victory over Lake Benton in Hills Monday.The Patriots, who recently received the No. 1 seed for the upcoming South Section 3A Volleyball Tournament, lived up to that ranking while easily putting the Bobcats away in a non-conference match.H-BC outscored LB 75-42 during a three-game match in which the Patriots never faced a deficit.The Patriots scored the first three points of Game 1 and led after Erin Boeve came up with one of her 10 blocks in the match.LB, however, rallied to trim the difference to one point (7-6) before H-BC went on a 16-6 run to open a 23-12 lead. H-BC’s Melinda Sandstede, who served three aces in the match, iced a 25-14 win with an ace delivery.H-BC scored the first three points of the second game before building a 10-3 cushion with a service point from Boeve.The Bobcats bounced back to knot the score at 13 with a 20-3 run, but the Patriots regrouped to outscore LB 12-2 the rest of the way with Boeve locking up a 25-15 victory with three consecutive service aces.Game 3 was tied at one when H-BC broke it open with an 18-7 surge capped by a service point from Diedre Vanden Bussche to take a 19-8 lead.H-BC went on to outscore the Bobcats 6-5 the rest of the game with Jessie Leenderts serving the final point of a 25-13 win.Brittney Rozeboom completed all 15 serves and recorded two aces for the Patriots.Boeve, who had 10 kills to go along with her 10 blocks, was 13 of 14 serving with three aces.Kelly Mulder chipped in six blocks and five kills at the net for the winners.
