The West Point-Beemer Volleyball Team went 1-1 in Sub-Districts, sweeping Fort Calhoun 3-0 in the C1-4 Sub-District Tournament at Fremont High Monday night before losing Tuesday night's Sub-District Final to Arlington, 3-1.
In the Fort Calhoun match, the Cadets won set one 25-21, set two 25-22, and set three 25-19 to win the match 3-0.
Nicole Mitzel led the way with 15 kills for West Point-Beemer while Sidney Swanson totaled 13. Makenna Weddle added 8.
Head Coach Conley Straight on the win. "Probably not our best effort tonight starting out. I think having that one seed for the first time, having that one seed in a long time. Few jitters that we had to work out in that first set kind of carried over to the second set. But finally, third set we found our rhythm and that sort of thing that we like to play with."
Straight. "When we can have 3 hitters hitting over .200 when we've got both of our outside hitters hitting over .250 that's something to accomplish. With Sidney Swanson hitting .450 for us on attacking percentage, and then Nicole Mitzel hit over .500 tonight. So we definitely were on, and credit to Katie Pilakowski, our setter, mixing it up."
The Eagles won sets one and two 25-19 and 25-21 before West Point-Beemer claimed set three 25-11. The Cadets led 22-20 in set four, but Arlington rattled off 5 straight points for a 25-22 win to close out the match.
Mitzel had 13 kills to lead West Point-Beemer. Weddle totaled 11 while Swanson chipped in 7.
Straight says his girls gave their best effort. "We got down two sets to none, but they fought back hard in that 3rd. And continued to fight until the end. And you can't coach effort. And that's what I always say. Can't coach effort. And I tell you these 6 seniors talk about leadership and effort. They weren't going to go down without a fight."
The Cadets end the year at 19-12.
Straight. "19-12 we can't complain. I think we exceeded all expectations from most people not only in our area, but also our conference. And that's again kudos to those seniors. I can't thank them enough for everything they've done this year cause they made my job fairly easy as a 1st year Head Coach."
Straight praised his seniors for a great season. "The part of coaching that's the hardest is when the season comes to an end. You have your expectations. We're so close to what some of our goals that we wanted to achieve. And you can only tell them that they gave everything. That's the best part. They gave everything. They didn't stop playing."
West Point-Beemer loses Lizbeth Inzunza, Pilakowski, Mitzel, Weddle, Brittney Hinkel, and Leigh Jahnke to graduation.
These are 6 very talented seniors, and they will be missed without a doubt.
Key players back include Ashton Troyer, Brooklyn Weddle, Abby Kaup, Andrea Hoffman, Brooke Haase, and Kendra Paasch.
As much talent as the Cadets lost they bring back plenty of it.
I look for West Point-Beemer to be good again next year, and perhaps have an even better season next year than they did this year.
There's so much for the Cadets to be proud of given what they accomplished this season.
Big wins this season were over Howells-Dodge (twice) Clarkson/Leigh, Battle Creek, Humphrey/Lindsay Holy Family (twice), Wayne, Scribner-Snyder, BRLD, Tekamah-Herman, and Fort Calhoun.
West Point-Beemer knocked off a lot of good teams this year, and I think the Cadets have so much to be proud of and so much to look forward to.
I think this season is only the start of great things for this West Point-Beemer program, and feel the Cadets have what it takes to become a power in the area for many years to come.
West Point-Beemer had a breakout season this year I would say, and I look for good things and winning to only continue for the Cadets in the future.
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