| Chelsea Vaudt leads offense and Heidi Zoucha leads defense in rough weekend for the Bulldogs. |
The Concordia University, Nebraska volleyball team's struggle to gain momentum continued this weekend as the Bulldogs dropped their Friday match at Northwestern College 3-0 and then lost 3-1 Saturday at Mt. Marty College.
Friday's games went 25-17, 25-16, and 25-14, with the Northwestern Red Raiders dominating action from beginning to end.
"They (Northwestern) were just a far superior team tonight," said head coach Rachel Miller. "We did some good things and played as well as we have all season."
Chelsea Vaudt led the Bulldogs with seven kills and five blocks while Heidi Zoucha led the defense with 10 digs.
On Saturday the Bulldogs traveled to Yankton, S.D., to face Mt. Marty and came out firing on all cylinders. The Bulldogs would take the first set 25-16 before the Lancers came storming back to take the remaining three sets, 25-19, 25-14 and 28-26.
"We again had an amazing set one, but just were not able to sustain that same effort for the remaining sets," continued Miller.
The match went the way of the Bulldog attackers. Concordia had eight kills and one error in set one before falling off to seven kills and 10 errors in set two. Dani Hoagland led the offense with nine kills on the evening.
The Bulldogs return home to take on the Dana College Vikings on Wednesday, Oct. 8. First serve for the J.V. match is at 6 p.m. The varsity match follows at 7:30.