Lady Broncos win two, hold second in league

The Lady Broncos have a tight grip on second place in the Northeast 2B League after recording a pair of wins over Reardan and Liberty.

The LRS volleyball team rolled to wins in both matches with three game sweeps. Saturday they defeated Reardan, 25-13, 25-16 and 25-17. The third game of the match was an exciting one as the team battled back after trailing by five points at the mid-point of the match.

The Lady Broncos are headed for a huge match this Saturday when they visit Davenport. The two teams are expected to do serious battle, as the regular season starts to wind down, for second place behind Colfax.

The Reardan win was a great step.

“Right now we are fighting for second place in league,” head coach Cari Galbreath said. “We’ve been wanting to beat Reardan for so long. The past two years they have just dominated. It felt good to be on the other end.”

Davenport will likely be a bigger handful.

“They are always defensively strong, which can be irritating to many teams,” Galbreath said. “I think they have a lot of girls on there that are just hungry and competitive and intense very consistently throughout the match.”

For the Lady Broncos, the team is performing well. There are areas Galbreath would like improvement.

“I think our serving is struggling lately and our serve-receive game can always be improved,” she said. “I really need them to improve their intensity to be more consistent with it throughout a match.”

For the match against Liberty, the Lady Broncos were productive all over the court.

Jana Mattox finished with one assist and one dig. Maya Wahl had two kills and two digs. Sydney Nelson provided two kills, one block, four assists and four digs. Soraida Chavez had one kill and four digs.

Jenna Bennett delivered three aces, four kills, 13 assists ands three digs. Dalyn Killian finished with one ace, 13 kills, one block and four digs. Felicia Zeimer had one dig. Elizabeth Schofstoll had three kills and three digs. Tessa Jantz recorded one dig.

Mallory Kessler was strong at the service line with eight aces. She had five kills, one assist and one dig.

During the Reardan match Kessler had one ace, eight kills an a block. Jantz had one kill.

Schofstoll finished with three aces, one kill and two digs. Killian added five aces, nine kills, two blocks, one assist and three digs.

Bennett had four kills, 11 assists and six digs. Chavez had two aces, one assist and one dig.

Nelson had one ace, four kills and eight assists.

Mattox recorded one kill, one assist and one dig.