Lady Broncos win two at home invite, fall at ACH

Almira-Coulee/Hartline roughed up the Lady Broncos a bit in four games Tuesday night, taking the win, 21-25, 25-22, 25-20, 25-13.

“We started off pretty strong early in the first game,” coach Cari Galbreath said. “Actually we were dominating. But then we couldn’t keep playing at our level and we lost our focus. We missed too many serves at crucial moments. We were not smart offensively with lots of hitting errors, and we let ACH control our game.”

Jenna Bennett had seven assists, two service aces and one dig. Kaytlin Phillips provided five digs while Brittany Ste. Marie tacked on three digs. Maya Wahl recorded one block and Sydney Nelson had one assist and one dig

Amanda Yockey finished with one kill and one service ace. Andrea Bennett logged two kills, two digs and one block. Dalyn Killian had four kills and two blocks. Davis Killian contributed three service aces and two blocks.

During the Ritzville Invite on Saturday the action played out in favor of the Lady Broncos as they won two of three matches. The junior varsity team finished the day undefeated.

For the varsity, the team won its first match against Odessa-Harrington, 24-26, 25-17, 15-13. They went on to defeat Liberty in three games, 25-19, 20-25, 15-4.

Defending state champion Reardan won the third match of the day, but the Lady Broncos showed plenty of promise.

“The Reardan match started with so much energy,” Galbreath said. “Every point we battled it out. We had a few silly errors/mistakes that were committed close together and before you knew it Reardan was serving to take the first game. There were definitely some good moments and good execution. We just happened to be a little more inconsistent and more frail in confidence than Reardan.”

Against Odessa-Harrington, Jenna Bennett had one kill, seven assists and service aces. Phillips had one kill and three digs. Ste. Marie posted two kills and one service ace.

Wahl recorded one kill while Nelson finished with one assist. Yockey notched one kill, two service aces and one block. Andrea Bennett had one kill and two service aces. Dalyn Killian finished with three kills, two service aces and four blocks. Davis Killian logged seven kills, four service aces and two blocks.

In the Liberty match, Jenna Bennett finished with seven assists, one service ace and one dig. Ste. Marie had one service ace, while Wahl recorded one kill. Nelson provided one kill and two assists. Yockey finished with two kills and three service aces. Andrea Bennett had four kills while Dalyn Killian notched five kills and two blocks. Davis Killian finished with five service aces and one block

Against Reardan, Jenna Bennett had one kill and three assists. Phillips had two digs and Ste. Marie added one dig. Wahl finished with two kills. Nelson had one kill and one assist. Yockey provided two blocks. Andrea Bennett had one service ace.

Dalyn Killian collected one kill, one assist, one service ace and one block. Davis Killian added one kill, three service aces and one block.