Lady Tigers falter at net in losses to Skyview, Middleton

The Mountain Home Lady Tigers battled long and hard but still came up short in conference volleyball last week.

Skyview 3, Mountain Home 0

The Lady Tigers battled Skyview pretty much even last Tuesday night in Lloyd Schiller Gymnasium in Mountain Home, but were a few points short on the scoreboard.

After early 1-0 and 2-1 leads, Mountain Home fell behind in the first game, but was never more than six points down. They battled back within one, 22-23, but a bad serve ended the run and Skyview took the game 25-22.

Mountain Home fell behind, 10-17, in the second game, before going on a 5-0 run to come within two, 15-17. The Lady Tigers were unable to get any closer, as Skyview prevailed at the net in game two, 25-19.

The Lady Tigers started strong in the third game and led in the early going before Skyview took the lead 10-9. Mountain Home battled back from a 15-20 deficit to tie the game at 20-20, but Skyview scored the final five points for a 25-20 win to claim the match, 3-0.

Mountain Home Lady Tiger volleyball coach Rachele Asbury saw some definite improvement by her girls.

"We were with them. We definitely played much better than we have the last couple weeks. Our serving was better -- we didn't have a lot of serving errors, which is very good. We got a lot of points off of aces, and actually, when you look at our stats, our earned points versus their earned points, we were ahead every single game.

"We just need to minimize the errors that we have on our hitting and tipped coverage."

Blas Lord led the Lady Tigers with 12/13 serves, with four aces, eight kills, two blocks and six digs. Arlene Futch was 10/10 on serves, with two aces, nine digs, four kills and a block. Nickayla Skinner was 10/11 serving, with four aces, 10 assists, two kills and a block. Tanya McKenzie was 9/9 serving, with an ace, three digs and two kills. Caitlin Kreyche was 7/8 on serves, with five kills, a block and four digs. Alexis Ruffing was 5/5 serving, with an ace, a kill and 10 digs. Dylan Dean was 2/3 on serves, with three kills, a block and three digs. Jessica Liercke was 1/2 serving, had three kills a block and a dig, and Brittany Ryan had two digs.

Mountain Home lost the junior varsity match 23-25 and 17-25.

The Mountain Home sophomores also lost in two, 22-25 and 12-25.

Middleton 3, Mountain Home 0

Mountain Home had a hard time getting untracked last Thursday at Middleton, losing in three to the Lady Vikings in conference volleyball.

The Lady Tigers had a slow start and dropped the first game 9-25. The second game was better, as they battled tough before losing 23-25. The third game was another rough one, with Mountain Home losing 12-25.

Blas Lord was 7/9 on serves, with three serving aces, and had five kills, two blocks and three digs. Nickayla Skinner was 4/5 serving, with seven assists and three digs. Dylan Dean was 4/4 serving, with an ace, three blocks, two digs, a kill and an assist. Caitlin Kreyche was 2/3 serving with two aces, four kills and a block. Alexis Ruffing was 3/4 on serves, had six digs and an assist. Arlene Futch was 8/11 serving, had three aces, two digs, a kill and an assist, and Jessica Liercke had one kill.

The Lady Tigers closed out their regular season schedule last night with Senior Night against Emmett. The District III 4A Volleyball Tournament starts Oct. 19, with the first two rounds at the higher seeds and the last two nights at Middleton.