After dropping the first two sets of the match by a combined total of five points, the Cloud County Community College volleyball team would win a must-have third set in extra points before going on to win both the fourth and the fifth sets to earn a come-from-behind five-set victory at Pratt Community College inside the Dennis Lesh Sports Arena in Pratt, Kansas on Wednesday, October 26th.
A fourth-straight victory sees the T-Birds move to 11-17 overall and 5-11 in the Kansas Jayhawk Community College Conference while Pratt falls to 6-22 overall and finishes conference play with an 0-16 mark. The five-set victory is the second of the season for CCCC and the second on the road in as many weeks after earning a five-set road win at Barton on October 7th.
Closely contested sets in both the first and the second would see the score stay close throughout each of the sets as Pratt would manage to close out both sets late to earn wins by scores of 25-22 and 25-23. With Cloud County in a must-win situation in the third set, the T-Birds would battle back from a late deficit before eventually going to extra points and score the final two points of the set to win 27-25. Having finally earned a set victory, CCCC would manage to pull away midway through the fourth set to win by a 25-18 margin and tie the match at 2-2 with things going to a winner-take-all fifth set where the T-Birds would win by a score of 15-9.
Leading Cloud County statistically would be freshman Katelynn Brogan who finished with 16 kills on 30 attempts while committing just one attack error while Madison Ronnebaum would record a career-best and team-high 22 kills in the match.
What's Next?
Cloud County will conclude its 2022 regular season with a 12 PM road match in Salina, Kansas as the T-Birds take on the Kansas Wesleyan University JV team. The match will be one final tune-up for CCCC before entering postseason play on Wednesday, November 2nd against a yet-to-be-determined opponent.
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