The Tekamah-Herman Tigers lost their second match of the week last week to North Bend Central, but rebounded to top Wisner-Pilger 3-1 at home Tuesday night.
Tekamah-Herman fell 3-0 at home to North Bend Central Thursday night.
North Bend Central took set one 25-8, and won sets two and three 25-18.
Against the Gators, the Tigers won set one 25-20 and set two 26-24, lost set three 25-21, but rebounded to win set four 25-22.
Liz Dlouhy paced the Tigers with 29 kills while Marin Jetensky registered 17.
Head Coach Becky Rennerfeldt says her team finally put it all together.
“A huge win, huge win for us. We’ve played really good sets this year, we’ve had some sets that are really good, but we’ve never had a full match against a good opponent like Wisner. And so to play that great of a full match feels really good.”
The win for Tekamah-Herman was only their second over Wisner-Pilger since 1997.
With the win, Tekamah-Herman improves to 9-14 on the year.
The Tigers take on Clarkson/Leigh (12-11) in the first round of the East Husker Conference Tournament in North Bend on Thursday.
“And this is the first time that we will ever play Clarkson/Leigh. We’ve never played them ever, at least in the six years that I’ve been here, and I don’t think that they have before that, so I honestly don’t know much about them. I’ve heard that they’re really scrappy and they have a good defense, so those are teams that are big challenges for us, we’re more of an offensive team. And hopefully we’re ready to play.” Rennerfeldt said.
The Patriots went 1-2 at the Humphrey/Lindsay Holy Family Tournament on Saturday, beating Twin River 2-0, but falling 2-0 to Howells-Dodge and 2-1 to the host Bulldogs.
Clarkson/Leigh is a tough team that is playing good volleyball right now, but the same could be said for Tekamah-Herman after Tuesday night's match.
I look for the Tigers to build off of the Wisner-Pilger win, and play another good match on Thursday.
Tekamah-Herman picked a good time to put it all together with the conference tournament looming this week.
I think this match could go either way, and I look for it to go the distance.
The winner gets North Bend Central, and I'm sure Tekamah-Herman would really like another shot at them as I'm sure Tekamah-Herman feels they can play better than they did against NBC the first time, and are a better team now than they were when they took them on.
It's important for Tekamah-Herman to keep playing well, and build upon what they did on Tuesday.
I look for the Tigers to keep putting together good sets and matches, and turn the corner some at the end of the regular season.
I don't know if Tekamah-Herman will advance in the winners bracket beyond the North Bend Central match, but I think the Tigers have a chance to pick up 2 or 3 wins in this tournament, and compete well both days.
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