Porcupines Start Volleyball Season in Culbertson

JANICE RORVIK

FOR THE COURIER

We started off our first weekend of volleyball participating in the Culbertson Tournament on August 28th. There were eight teams invited and Nashua ended up playing pool play on the east court against Scobey JV, Froid/Lake, and Bainville. All of the pool play sets were played to 15. Our first match in pool play was against Scobey JV. We ended up losing to Scobey in two with scores of 15-5 and 15-14. Our second game we played Froid/Lake and lost in two with scores of 15-14 and 15-10. The third match we played was against Bainville which we ended up winning in two with scores of 15-10 and 15-10. The single elimination tournament then started. The games were best two of three with the first two played to 25. We were seeded to play Savage and ended up losing two sets to them (scores were not available at press time).

I was quite happy with how the team played. This tournament was a great way to start out our season and let us see what we have as our strengths and those areas of our play that we need to work on. We are excited to take our skills on the road next weekend as we go to Bainville and Plentywood.

Note: Stats for the game may not be completely accurate as we were training a new statistician.

For the entire day (pool play and 1 tournament game):

Aces: Haydn Adkins - 7, Tia Dees - 4

Assists: Kaitlyn Miller - 4, Haydnn Adkins - 2

Kills: Tia Dees and Keelyn Skolrud - 2 each

Blocks: Kaitlyn Miller - 6, Tia Dees - 5

Digs: Alexis Murdock - 10, Hadynn Adkins - 7