Pender downs Logan View and Wakefield

The Pender Pendragons won both matches this week, sweeping Logan View 3-0 on the road Tuesday night, and defeating Wakefield 3-1 on the road Thursday night.

The Pendragons beat the Raiders 25-14 in set one, 25-16 in set two, and 25-9 in set three.

Pender downed the Trojans 25-20 in the first set. Wakefield won the second set 25-21 before the Pendragons won the third set 25-17 and the fourth set 25-13.

Head Coach Melissa Hansen says her girls hard a hard time serving the ball. "Within the first I think their first eight or ten points in that second set I think we gave them over half of those points just on service errors. So we had a good talk in between sets about how serving is important in every game, and finally we just said focus on getting your serves over and in. So that's what our main focus was."

Hansen says poor serving nearly cost them the match. "We came out a little I would say off. With this whole weather thing, we didn't really get started out like we usually do. Our routine was a little off. So coming in late I think it threw the girls off, but once we finally got focused and ready to play ball, it came around."

Pender is 5 and 4 after the win over the Trojans. Hansen says three wins in a row is a good sign."I'm excited to see what our future holds. These girls have really come a long way just from the first game. We're finally getting some team unity. Learning to play with one another. I really think that our future could be good."

The Pendragons take on Stanton (10-2) and Wisner-Pilger (4-3) in the Wisner-Pilger Triangular Tuesday night.

The Gators lost 3-0 at home to North Bend Central Tuesday night while the Mustangs downed Boone Central/Newman Grove and Norfolk Catholic 2-0 Thursday night.

Pender is doing good this year, in my opinion, but I think both Wisner-Pilger and Stanton will be tough.

These matches will be good measuring sticks for the Pendragons, in my opinion.

It will be interesting to see if Pender can keep things rolling and pick up a signature win or two.

I feel like the Pendragons have the potential to beat both teams, it's just a matter of going out there and making it happen.

The Mustangs are a really good team, and I would say the Gators are up there too, so I don't see things being easy in either match for Pender.

This is going to be a really tough triangular for the Pendragons, in my opinion.

We will find out how far Pender has come and what sort of improvements they have made over last year.

There's no doubt the Pendragons want to do well in this tournament, but if Pender struggles, I don't think that would show how good Pender really is.