The Britton-Hecla volleyball squad jumped out to a fast start at Redfield on Thursday but dropped the next three sets in its only action in the past week.
Coach Jenna Peters’ crew took the opening set 25-18, lost a 27-25 heartbreaker in set two, and fell 25-8 and 25-20 in the final two sets.
Last nightTuesday the Lady Braves played at Waverly-South Shore, Thursday Florence-Henry comes to town for a homecoming matchup, and Tuesday B-H travels to Sisseton.
“We started out really strong against Redfield but kind of fell apart after that,” said B-H coach Jenna Peters, whose club has dropped three straight and stood at 6-5 heading into last night’s matchup. “We need to work more on mental toughness and confidence and hopefully we can get back on track.”
Kaegan Fredrickson paced the Britton-Hecla attack, hitting 19-20 serves with five aces and pounding down 22-28 tries at the net with eight kills. Tiyanna Schott added seven kills, Sterling Brassfield and Abby Lee six each, and Karlie Zuehlke five as the Lady Braves came up with 38 kills in the match.
SERVING: BH, 74-79, 6 aces (Kaegan Fredrickson 19-20, 5 aces; Tiyanna Schott 13-14, 1 ace; Heather Storbakken 12-14; Emma Kraft 11-12; Jayden Bender 10-10)
HITTING: BH, 104-129, 38 kills (Fredrickson 22-28, 8 kills; Schott 1824, 7 kills; Sterling Brassfield 13-18, 6 kills; Abby Lee 13-18, 6 kills; Karlie Zuehlke 12-14, 5 kills; Kraft 18-19, 3 kills; Annika Tank 3-5, 3 kills)
SETTING: BH, 88-91, 21 assists (Storbakken 41-42, 10 assists; Bender 41-43, 9 assists)
DIGS: BH, 58 (Tank 18, Addison Wade 10)
BLOCKS: BH, 1 block, 10 assists (Schott 1 block, 1 assist; Fredrickson 4 assists; Zuehlke 2 assists, Lee 2 assists)
