Vikings fall to No. 3 Treasure Valley CC

MOSES LAKE — The Big Bend Vikings embarked on their longest road trip of the season, traveling to Ontario, Oregon to face off against the No. 3 ranked team in the NWAC, Treasure Valley Community College. Despite its efforts, BBCC struggled to get its offense going, making it difficult to keep pace with Treasure Valley's high-powered attack. The Vikings dropped three straight sets by identical scores of 25-18 in each set.

Camryn Birch led the Lady Vikes' offense with six kills, while Audrey Wellhausen contributed five in the hard-fought loss. Although BBCC showed moments of strong play, they were unable to overcome the well-rounded Chukar offense. 

"Our focus this week in practice has been on us," head coach Alexa Moser said. "What we can control on our side of the net. First ball touches, bettering the ball with every contact and then terminating. Unfortunately, we didn't see that translate in the match. We had moments of it, but we couldn't keep the ball in our hands. We knew going into this game that they have a very powerful offense and so we covered the importance of first ball sideouts but we just let them go on runs of three-four points and we couldn't catch back up, we were constantly playing from behind. Blocking was another stressor in practice, especially knowing they have strong hitters, it's even something we work on every day, but we struggled adjusting to their fast-paced offense and there's only so many times you can dig a ball without finding a way to terminate on our side."

BBCC prepares for back to back to back road trips as they face off versus Spokane Falls CC on Wednesday, and battle it out against Blue Mountain CC on Friday.

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