Volleyball Has Season End with Loss to No. 13 Park
Sioux City, IA – The Hastings College volleyball team had its season come to an end on Thursday afternoon losing 18-25, 25-20, 15-25, 20-25 to NAIA No. 13 Park in pool play action at the NAIA Women’s Volleyball Championship.
| Final | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | T |
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18 | 25 | 15 | 20 | 1 |
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25 | 20 | 25 | 25 | 3 |
Team Stats
Park
| Game Statistics | Hastings | Park |
|---|---|---|
| Hitting % | .158 | .255 |
| Blocks | 6.0 | 6.0 |
| Digs | 57 | 59 |
| Aces | 2 | 8 |
Sioux City, IA – The Hastings College volleyball team had its season come to an end on Thursday afternoon losing 18-25, 25-20, 15-25, 20-25 to NAIA No. 13 Park in pool play action at the NAIA Women's Volleyball Championship.
Things were looking good for the Lady Broncos in set one getting a kill from Peyton Roper followed by a Miriam Miller service ace to go up 12-10. But then four attack errors by Hastings plus a couple of Pirate kills made it 16-12 in favor of Park before Hastings called its first timeout. HC really never recovered following this run dropping set one 25-18.
In set two, Hastings did not get off to as good of a start as the Pirates opened up an early 14-9 lead before the Lady Broncos rallied back. It started with an Irene Verdino service error and an attack error by Makaina Hensley to make it 14-11. Then Miller went outside to Brianna Lemke for the kill and then Lemke found Asher for the kill to make it 14-13. An attack error by Thaynara Jesus tied things at 14 before Park finally ended the run with a Jesus kill.
Hastings wasn't done as Asher went out to Roper for the kill to tie things back up at 15-15. Rachel Hefta used her defensive abilities blocking the Hensley attack to put Hastings up for the first time in this set since it was 1-0. Following another Hensley attack error, Asher connected with Lemke for another big time kill to make it 18-15.
The Lady Broncos held on to its lead until Hefta picked a kill on the slide to make it 23-19. Then Asher teamed up with Amani Monroe for the double block as Hastings had set point and was back in the match. Jesus picked up a kill for the next point but had an attack error that ended the set at 25-20 and the match was all tied up 1-1.
Unfortunately, Hastings had yet another tough set in set three losing it 25-15 and being down 2-1, needed to win the next two sets to have a chance to keep its hopes alive.
Hastings did get down 22-13 but would make Park a bit nervous with a 7-1 run highlighted by kills from Marlee Taylor, two kills from Lemke and a service ace from Ava Lovitt had Hastings within three at 23-20. But Park closed it out with back-to-back kills to win the set and the match 3-1 setting up a winner take all match with Concordia for the right to move into the knockout stage.
Lemke led the way with 14 kills while hitting .314 as Roper also finished in double figures with 10 kills. Monroe added nine kills while hitting .350 where Hefta finished with four kills and four total blocks.
Asher led the team with 42 assists where Miller led the way with 18 assists.
Hastings finished the match hitting .158 compared to .255 for Park.
The Lady Broncos finish the season with a 20-15 overall record.
