BV drops 3-1 'cat fight' to visiting Bobcats

There was a “cat fight” on the volleyball court in Brandon on Thursday evening, as two evenly-matched teams – the Lady Lynx and the Brookings Bobcats – battled it out over four sets. The Bobcats, unfortunately, was the team to claw out the 3-1 victory. 

The first set, a 26-24 victory, belonged the Lady Lynx, while the next three went the way of the Bobcats, 25-22, 25-19, 25-21.

Despite the loss, BV head coach Dacia Boehrns liked the fight she saw in her team.

“We came out and had a goal to win set one because we haven’t done that all season, and we did it. We came out and we wanted to win, and it showed,” she said.

Both teams had short bursts of momentum and the match was filled with long volleys that kept volleyball fans on both sides of the net on the edge of their seats. Boehrns said her team prepared all week just for that.

“We worked really hard these last few days in practice on kind of those fundamental, situational plays that can happen and you can’t stop playing until the whistle’s blowed,” Boehrns said. “That’s kind of what happened tonight, they just kept with it and we had some really long volleys, some came our way, some didn’t, but that’s the game of volleyball.”

Paige Timmons delivered 18 kills in the match and Macyn Flanigan added eight to the cause. Avery Myers had 36 set assists. Junior Brooke Lunstra was a beast in the team’s serving game, firing seven ace serves over four sets.

The team’s defensive effort was led by Jadah Tschetter’s three blocks. Ella Simonson had 20 digs and Lunstra was credited with nine.

For Brookings, Grace Eggebrecht had 17 kills and Kylie Tucker had nine. Miranda Ysbrand had 19 digs and Ashlyn Borah had 13. Kylie Tucker had a hand on five blocks and Michaela Jewett provided 41 set assists. Emma Hardin also had five ace serves.

 

BV 1, AC 3

Aberdeen Central sent the Lady Lynx back to Brandon with a 3-0 loss on Saturday. The Golden Eagles won 25-21, 25-8, 25-17.

Timmons once again led the net attack with 11 kills. Myers had 20 assists and Flanigan was responsible for a pair of ace serves. Tschetter had two blocks, while Simonson and Anna Reinschmidt were credited with 10 and seven digs, respectively.

Central (5-3) was guided by Paiton Burckhard’s 17 kills and 10 from Cassidy Gough. Gough and Lexi Lafave both had a trio of blocks.

The Lynx travel to Mitchell on Thursday, and despite the team’s lopsided 1-7 record, Boehrns remains optimistic.

“It’s hard when you have a losing couple of games or the ball’s not falling the way you want, to keep that mindset and enthusiasm and all that stuff. But these girls, I feel, are still in it, and if they keep doing what they’re doing, the ball’s going to drop our way.”