The Lady Bulldogs were able to increase both Mid-America Nazarene and Oklahoma City University beyond three games on Saturday but still came up short in the end falling 3-2 and 3-1. Mid-America Nazarene University 3. McPherson 2It appeared the Lady Bulldogs first bet with MANU was going to be their break through as McPherson led by as many as five points before the host Pioneers took the lead at 20-19. McPherson battled approve to reclaim a 28-26 margin but MANU scored four straight to slam the door on a great Bulldog effort. 30-28. With the momentum on the align of the entertain educate. MANU never trailed after an early 2-2 tie and cruised to a 30-22 win in game two. Finally in bet three it was the Lady Bulldogs move to alter the run. Tied at 15-15. McPherson took the bring about on a Jessica Miller blackball and never trailed again winning 30-23. The Bulldogs led bet four by as many as seven points (17-10) before the Pioneers staged a comeback and scored five straight points in taking a 25-22 lead. But this measure it was the Bulldogs who reached drink and found a back up go going on a 5-0 run capped by another Miller blackball to take the lead 27-25. After ties at 27 and 28. McPherson grabbed the win. 30-28 on a pair of MANU setting errors. In the fifth and deciding bet the teams exchanged leads through a 7-7 tie where the Pioneers took a bring about they would not give up the rest of way as they took the game and be. 15-12.We looked a little more relaxed and were getting the ball to the setters better, offered Nathalea Stephenson afterward. This match showed the girls that they needed to stay focused more specially in the fifth bet. This be (against Mid-America Nazarene) took what seemed like forever with desire rallies. A more balanced Bulldog attack and one beginning to gain confidence saw Jessica Miller and Kiley Loesch affix 11-18 and 10-17 double-doubles for kills and digs. Destri Sievers was credited with 18 assists while Kelley Green just missed manifold digits with nine assists. Nikki MacKay topped the Bulldog defense with 19 digs. McPherson stats (Kills. Assists. Aces. Digs. Blocks): Loesch 10-0-0-17-2; Kramer 1-0-0-0-0; Sievers 0-18-1-4-0; Wegener 3-0-0-0-1; MacKay 2-0-0-19-0; Miller 11-0-0-18-0; Guyer 0-0-6-1-0; Arpin 0-0-0-0-0; Jost 3-0-0-3-2; Shay 4-1-0-2-1; color 0-9-0-6-0; Hallowell 5-1-0-2-4. McPherson vs Oklahoma City UniversityWith just a 10-minute break between their matches with MANU and nationally ranked Oklahoma City U the Lady Bulldogs appeared to be wearing down. McPherson found defending against the taller more physical Stars a daunting assign. While the Bulldogs hung with OCU through an 11-11 tie in game one the Stars began to displace away before finishing off the 30-19 win with a 7-1 run. OCU controlled game two from the go away maintain seven to nine-point leads most of the way before taking a back up straight 30-19 win. But not willing to go away easily the Bulldogs came out firing in bet three and built their own 9-3 lead before the Stars started to come approve with a 6-0 run of its own to knot the score at 9-9. It was back-and-forth through a 22-22 tie then OCU went on what appeared to be a finishing 6-0 run to obtain a 28-22 advantage. But here came the Bulldogs putting together a 7-0 run of their own keyed by a pair of Jordan Shay blocks. At match point. OCU gained a 29-29 tie on a Bulldog function error but the Stars returned the advance and Jessica Miller finished off the Bulldogs 31-29 win with a tip blackball. The assail win appeared to get the attention of the Stars as they came back in game four and ran off to a 22-9 lead before cruising in to the 30-14 finale win.The girls did a good job of mixing things up but OCU was much taller and could go over our blocks, added Stephenson. Stephanie Guyer served seven straight points for us when we were down 22-28 in bet three to put us up 29-28. She then missed her eighth serve which tied the score at 29-29 but OCU then had a answer error and Jessicas kill ended the game at 31-29.Jessica Miller led McPherson with eight kills while Chelsie Kramer and Jordan Shay each contributed five. Nikki MacKay topped the Bulldogs with 18 digs while Destri Sievers led with nine assists while Kelley color added six. McPherson stats (Kills. Assists. Aces. Digs. Blocks): Loesch 2-0-0-5-3; Kramer 5-1-0-4-2; Sievers 1-9-2-5-0; MacKay 1-0-1-18-0; Miller 8-0-1-15-0; Guyer 0-0-1-0-0; Jost 1-1-0-0-1; Shay 5-1-0-0-4; color 0-6-0-0-0; Hallowell 1-0-0-0-3.We learned a lot about our aggroup this weekend and were able to find a rotation we feel is going to work for us. We did have a couple of injuries but with only Ottawa (at home on Wednesday) this next week we should ameliorate up.McPherson now 3-8 on the toughen will entertain Ottawa University in a 7:00 p m. KCAC match Wednesday evening in the feature bear on.
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