Cougars down CCCC in five sets

The Cloud County Community College volleyball team stretched 19th-ranked Barton Community College to five sets before suffering a Jayhawk Conference loss Saturday night in Bryant Gymnasium.
Barton rolled to a 25-12 win in the opening of the match.
The Cougars, 21-3 overall and 11-1 and in first place in the Jayhawk Conference, went up 2-0 by winning the second set, 25-16.
Cloud County, 19-11 overall and 5-7 in conference play, came alive with a 25-16 victory in the third set.
The T-Birds squeezed out a 25-23 win in the fourth set to even the match at 2-2.
Cloud County fell behind 9-6 in the fifth and deciding set, but battled back to take an 11-10 lead.
There would be seven ties after that as neither team could capture the two-point advantage needed for the win.
Cloud County led 18-17 when Barton scored three straight points to win the set 20-18 and the match.
Bradie Medina finished with 14 kills and 12 digs for the T-Birds.
Doga Eski had 13 kills and 24 digs.
Brette Doile had 15 digs and Ashley Suter added eight.
Katelynn Brogan finished with 36 assists.
Jacey Schurle and Emery May had seven blocks each.
Schurle also had seven kills.
Cloud County dropped a pair of matches to ranked opponents in a triangular it hosted on Friday.
The T-Birds fell in four sets to 15th-ranked Central (Neb.) Community College, 25-21, 20-25, 25-19, 25-18.
Madison Ronnebaum had 14 kills and nine digs for the T-Birds. Schurle added 12 kills.
Brogan had 23 digs and 15 assists.
Doile also had 15 assists.
Suter had 15 assists.
Cowley Community College, ranked second in NJCAA Division II, swept the T-Birds, 25-12, 25-13, 25-16.
Ronnebaum had six kills for Cloud County.
Brogan had 11 assists and Doile had nine digs.