MHHS Volleyball team looks to peak at season's end

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers had another tough battle with Columbia last Thursday night at Columbia High School in Nampa, losing in three close games to the Lady Wildcats in conference volleyball.

Mountain Home battled the Lady Wildcats tough in game one before losing 19-25. They lost the second game 17-25, and in a real battle, came up short in the third game 23-25.

"They were close (games)," said Lady Tiger volleyball coach Rachele Asbury of the Columbia match. "We had some serving errors and some hitting errors where we were not concentrating on putting the ball on the court, and so we gave them a lot of their points versus making them earn them."

Blas Lord was 11/12 serving with one ace and five assists. Nickayla Skinner was 10/10 on serves, had 10 assists and two kills. Samantha Laughlin was 9/9 serving with five kills. Sarah Cantrell was 8/9 on serves with four kills. Charde Huntington was 8/11 serving with an ace and a kill. Kelsie Hopkins was 7/7 serving, Tanya McKenzie was 1/2 serving, Arlene Futch had 10 digs and Jasmyn Jewett had three kills.

The Lady Tigers fell to 2-10 in conference play. They were at Skyview last (Tuesday) night and close out their regular season schedule tomorrow (Thursday) night at home against Middleton for Senior Night.

"Both are going to be tough teams," said Coach Asbury. "We're going to have to be playing at our peak if we want to be able to take wins away from those two teams."

The District III 4A Volleyball Tournament runs Oct. 20-23 at Kuna. Coach Asbury is hoping her Lady Tigers can put it all together at district.

"When we're working well together we can beat teams and I think we're capable of beating any team in our league, we just have to be on and ready to play and work together."