Volleyball team opens season with road win

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers opened their 2008 volleyball season with a 3-2 conference win over the Emmett Lady Huskies at Emmett.

The match was a battle, going five games. Mountain Home won the first game, 25-16, dropped the second, 13-25, won the third, 25-22, lost the fourth, 26-28, and prevailed in the fifth game, 15-10, to win the match.

Lady Tiger volleyball coach Rachele Asbury was pleased to open the season with a win on the road.

"We ended up going five games with Emmett -- tough games, all five -- in the end, serving and consistency pulled this one out."

Nickayla Skinner was 19-20 serving, with an ace, and had 11 digs and five kills on the night. Sarah Cantrell was 16-19 serving, with three aces, and had 10 kills, a block and 16 digs. Charde Huntington was 14-17 serving, with one ace, and had eight kills and six blocks. Samantha Laughlin was 10-10 serving, had eight kills, five blocks and five digs. Blas Lord was 10-15 serving, with one ace and had 29 assists, and Brittany Ryan had 11 digs.

Mountain Home ended up sweeping Emmett on the night, as the sophomores and JV teams also beat Emmett.

The Lady Tigers were at Bishop Kelly Tuesday night, and go to Kuna for a tri-match tomorrow (Thursday) night with the host Lady Kavemen and Nampa, all varsity matches, with the first match starting at 4:30 p.m.

"After our Emmett game we've been working on some of the things that caused us a little headache there, so hopefully we'll be ready for this next week, stronger on serve/receive and less serving errors," said Coach Asbury.