Volleyball | October 2

Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 | Box Score 3 | Box Score 4 The Highland Scottie volleyball team traveled to Chanute, KS to partake in the Panther Invitational on the campus of Neosho Community College on Friday and Saturday, September 29^th and 30^th.

Head volleyball coach Jon Bingesser shared his thoughts after the team went 3-1 this weekend. "Overall I thought this weekend went very well. It was a fun tournament. We are playing good volleyball right now but I know as a team we still believe we can take our game to a higher level."  Highland had already seen all four teams they were scheduled to play. Southeast CC and Allen CC were the first two teams to be played by the Scotties on Friday and they were shown no mercy. Highland swept both teams 3-0.

The second day of the tournament posed a threat as the Scotties faced two teams who have both given Highland losses, Coffeyville CC and NEO. Highland started on a high against the Red Ravens taking the first set but were over taken to lose 1-3 "We played a great match against Coffeyville. We were able to make adjustments from the first time we played them and were successful because of it early. We just could not maintain that energy needed to finish the match," commented Coach Bingesser. NEO was their final match of the tournament topping off the weekend with another 3-0 win. "I was impressed with the way we rebounded against NEO. They fought back in the second match and we were able to hold them off and take the set 30-28. It was a much different swing from the first set winning 25-11 but we fought off two of their set points."
 
The team is now 19-5 overall and 4-1 in conference and look ahead to face #13 Fort Scott (16-6, 2-3) on Wednesday, October 4^th in Fort Scott, KS at 6:30PM.

GAME RESULTS

Match One: Highland vs. Southeast CC 3-0 (25-20, 25-20, 25-11)
Polanco put down 12 kills in the first set of the tournament and Kirsten Johnson picked up 12 digs on defense. Orozco had her sixth game with double-digit digs with 10. The teams .269 hitting percentage was their second best this season.

Match Two: Highland vs. Allen CC 3-0 (25-9, 25-11, 25-18)
The stat sheet showed a large team effort in the 3-0 sweep over Allen. Katie Pearson came out on top with 22 assists and led in digs with nine. Leslie Polanco contributed seven digs and seven kills along with two aces. Zealia Kleitz led the offense with nine kills and picked up four digs. Emma Cohalla put down six kills while Koie Orozco had six digs on defense.

Match Three:  Highland vs. Coffeyville CC 1-3 (25-17, 16-25, 15-25, 19-25)
Highland's defense proved to be a threat against the Coffeyville Red Ravens picking up a team 76 digs, four in double digits; their fourth best this season. Polanco, Johnson, Orozco, and Pearson combined had 58 of the teams 76 with Mallory Wagner adding nine of her own. The team had seven blocks on the match and Pearson dished out 33 assists. Sophomore Kleitz had her 12^th double digit in kills game with 13 to lead the offense.

Match Four: Highland vs. NEO 3-0 (25-11, 30-28, 25-21)
Sophomores Keitz and Polanco continue to fight to lead the conference in the kill column both contributing 15 and 13 kills apiece.  Cohalla had a great game offensively with 9 kills and no errors hitting a solid .600 in the match with two solo blocks. Polanco led the defense with 2 digs and Pearson came out with 40 assists. The team had four aces and had an impressive .260 hitting percentage.