<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=0Zk9Hx_1FIACRZ200" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=0Zk9Hx_1FIACRZ200" width="2000" height="1276" ></figure>SCOTTSBLUFF - The Western Nebraska Community College volleyball team had their backs to the wall but came out swinging in the final three sets to reverse sweep Casper College Thursday at Cougar Palace.WNCC dropped the first two sets 25-19, 25-21 before earning wins in the final three sets 25-21, 25-19, 15-12 for their ninth win of the season.WNCC will be back in action Saturday when they travel to Lincoln to face Southeast Community College in a south sub-region contest.Anika Davison, who tallied 13 big kills in the final three sets, said this was a match that showed the determination of the team.“This is honestly massive,” Davison said. “Throughout the season we’ve been struggling on the first few sets of a game and if you look at our record, we’ve gone to five like so many times. Our last tournament, three out of four games we went to five sets, and doing that much work, and then we lost a couple in the end. That’s really hard on us. So, we just kept saying we’re going to build on this.“So, to finally see all that work that we’ve been doing pay off, and for us to keep fighting until the end, to stay aggressive, to stay positive, to stay together and confident with each other, it’s been really, really big for us.”It looked as if the WNCC was going to get swept by Casper after the Thunderbirds won the first two sets 25-19, 25-21, and led 14-9 in the third. The big thing in the first 2 ½ sets was WNCC led just four times and that included 1-0 in all three sets and 2-1 in the third sets.Davison said the big difference in the last 2 ½ sets was the team’s confidence.“To be honest, I think it was just our confidence in ourselves. I think the first couple sets we were so afraid to make mistakes,” she said. “You know, you can’t make good plays without also risking that mistake. I think at the end, we kind of threw away that fear and we realized like this is us, this is how we play.”It was midway through the third set that the momentum changed. Davison said they had to start hitting and blocking and playing defense because they knew that Casper was a great team with great hitters.“They’re great hitters over there. They have very, very strong hitters, so we’re trying out best to keep them out of rotation,” Davison said. “So those big serves were massive in our momentum.”Trailing 14-9 in the third, Keira Zelada hammered down a kill that sent Ahleejah Tovo-Sunia to the service line. All Tova-Sunia did was serve seven straight points to put the Cougars up 17-14. WNCC went up 20-15 on a Freia Palk kill before Casper came storming back to cut the deficit to one, 22-21.Zelada came back and cot a massive kill and then Reese Fleck served the final two points for the 25-21 win.The fourth set was another one where Casper hit 14 points first at 14-12 after Gemma McNamara had three points. Sage Tash stopped the run with a kill and then Tovo-Sunia did it again, serving four straight points for a 17-14 lead. Casper cut the deficit to 20-18, but Palk got a kill and then Liis Auvaart had an ace for a 22-18 lead.After a sideout, WNCC got the serve back after another thundering kill by Zelada. Fleck then served the final two points for the 25-19 win and forced a fifth game, the Cougars fourth five-game match in six contests.The fifth set was back and forth as WNCC had an 8-7 lead only to watch Casper’s Aubrey Hacket get two service points to put the Thunderbirds up 10-8. Zelada stopped the run with another huge kill that put Gaia Foramiglio to the service line and the freshman libero had four points, including two aces for a 13-10 lead. WNCC won the match 15-12 on a Liebentritt kill.WNCC hit .181 for the match while Casper hit .166. Zelada led the Cougars with 17 kills followed by Davison with 13, Tash with eight, and Liebentritt and Palk each with six.WNCC also tallied 68 digs, led by Fleck with 15 followed by Liebentritt with 12, and Foramiglio and Auvaart each with 11. Tovo-Sunia led the Cougars with 14 points while Foramiglio had eight, and Liebentritt and Auvaart each with six.Auvaart had 34 assists while Tovo-Sunia had 21.</div></body>

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SCOTTSBLUFF - The Western Nebraska Community College volleyball team had their backs to the wall but came out swinging in the final three sets to reverse sweep Casper College Thursday at Cougar Palace. WNCC dropped the first two sets 25-19, 25-21 before earning wins in the final three sets 25-21,...

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WNCC volleyball reverse sweeps Casper

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