MCC Volleyball wins two at home tournament

The McCook Community College volleyball team won twice Friday on the opening day of the MCC Labor Day weekend tournament. MCC picked up a 3-1 win over Frank Phillips College of Texas and a 3-0 win over Dodge City Community College.

"Overall, it was a good day, we had a lot of players get on the court for us," said MCC Coach Hayley Kobza. "A great way to start our tournament."

The coach tried out two different offenses Friday and was pleased with the result.

"Both of them went well and that can be a nice perk for us moving forward to have two lineups that we can use," Kobza said.

Sophomore Greta Bolognini, sophomore defensive specialist from Bergamo, Italy paced MCC on the defensive side in both matches picking up 43 digs on the day.

"I thought Greta Bolognini played really great defense not only with how consistent she played but coming up with some exciting digs to spark us," Kobza said.

MCC improves to 6-4 on the season.

The tournament concludes Saturday with MCC taking on Fort Scott Community College at 2 p.m. and Garden City Community College at 6 p.m.

Up-to-date information about MCC volleyball including schedules, statistics, rosters and photos can be found on the MCC Athletics website, www.mccindians.com 

McCook CC 3, Frank Phillips CC 1: MCC opened the weekend winning 26-24, 24-26, 25-20, 25-10.

Fernanda Merancio (sophomore, Lamar, Colo.) led the team with 16 kills and added three assist blocks. Freshman Romina Martinez Castro (Cochabamba, Bolivia) had 11 kills, one assist block, eight digs and six aces.

Rowan Tribelhorn (freshman, Yuma, Colo.) added four kills and three assist blocks. Sophomore Jordan Duzenack (Loveland, Colo.) had three kills.

Sophomore Gabby Caskey (Ogallala) had seven kills and two assist blocks. Gracen Tuttle (sophomore, Ogallala) had five kills and five assist blocks.

Jessie Jerome (Rawlins, Wyo.) led the team with 42 assists and had 11 digs and three aces.

Bolognini led the defense with 27 digs and Caylin Barnett (freshman, McCook) was credited with seven digs.

McCook CC 3, Dodge City CC 0: MCC swept the Conquistadors 25-21, 25-20, 25-20.

Bolognini was credited with 16 digs and two aces.

Sophomore Kayten Hagan (Kearney) led MCC with 17 assists and came up with five digs. Jerome had 15 assists, seven kills, 10 digs, one solo block, one assist block, and an ace. Barnett had six digs.

Merancio led MCC with nine kills, and picked up two assist blocks. Duzenack had five kills and two assist blocks.

Tuttle had five kills and three assist blocks. Caskey had four kills, five assist blocks and a solo block. Martinez had four kills, six digs and an ace.