West Point-Beemer wins last three regular season matches

The West Point-Beemer Volleyball Team went on the road and swept Boone Central/Newman Grove 3-0 last Tuesday night in action heard on 107.9 the Bull.

Set one was tied at four before the Cadets pulled away for a 25-14 win.

West Point-Beemer held a big lead in set two only to see the Cardinals battle back and make it 20-17 at one point. The Cadets then went up 24-17 before Boone Central/Newman Grove made it 24-22. West Point-Beemer would go on to win the set 25-22.

Set three saw the Cardinals jump out to a 16-12 advantage before the Cadets battled back and won it 25-18.

West Point-Beemer's Sidney Swanson, who was the S&W Welding Player of the game for West Point-Beemer, led all players with 13 kills. Brooke Haase had 5 while Kendra Paasch and Abby Kaup added 4 apiece.

Head Coach Conley Straight. "We had a good night attacking across the front line. Our goal has been to find a balanced attack here early on in the year. A lot of teams have been keying on Sidney and we really didn't have much of an attack other than her, but here these last few matches a lot of other hitters have gotten involved, which has kind of opened up the net for Sidney and that sort of thing. And so we're going to continue to work on that because when teams can't just key on one hitter it really opens it up for all the other hitters as well."

Straight says it was a good win. "Fairly good night for us in the sense kind of all around with that sort of thing. Having a long week last week with EHC Conference on Thursday and Saturday. It's good to get back on the court on Tuesday here tonight to kind of see the things we need to work on since we're kind of winding the season down here and getting close to Sub-District time. So good battle by the girls tonight in most areas of the game and that sort of thing, but definitely things that we can fine tune."

The Cadets then won 2-1 over Howells-Dodge and Pender at the Howells-Dodge Triangular Tuesday night to end the regular season.

The Pendragons won set one 25-22 before West Point-Beemer took set two 25-12 and set three 25-20.

The Cadets won sets one and three over the Jaguars 29-27 while dropping set two 25-23.

Good strong finish to the regular season for West Point-Beemer.

The Cadets (15-14) are the No. 1 seed in the C1-6 Sub-District at Oakland-Craig with action beginning on Monday.

West Point-Beemer is scheduled to face the winner of Tekamah-Herman and Arlington at 7:00 p.m. although the match could start later than that with only an hour's time allotted in between matches on the schedule.

This is all the Cadets can ask for.

West Point-Beemer is the No. 1 seed in a wide open Sub-District.

It's the Cadets' time to go out there and do something and shine.

West Point-Beemer has all they could have ever wanted in front of them in this one.

The Cadets have to go out there and capitalize on the chance and opportunity, and get the job done.

I don't know if you can rule out anyone as a winner in this Sub-District.

West Point-Beemer owns two wins over North Bend Central and Arlington, and one over Tekamah-Herman.

The Cadets lost to Logan View/Scribner-Snyder in the regular season, but I'm sure West Point-Beemer would rather face the Raiders in the Sub-District Final as opposed to the Tigers.

Reasons being North Bend Central won their last three regular season matches and have postseason experience plus LVSS is really struggling right now.

That and it's tough to beat a team three times in a season, and the last match between the Tigers and Cadets went the distance in terms of number of sets.

Anyone can win this Sub-District as it's wide open, but I think it will be West Point-Beemer against North Bend Central in the Sub-District Final based on how all teams are playing right now.

Certainly don't count out Tekamah-Herman or Logan View/Scribner-Snyder though, or even Arlington for that matter.

No match or set even can be taken for granted, especially in this Sub-District.

The Cadets will have earned it if they come out of this Sub-District.

It would be a big deal for West Point-Beemer to win it though as it would ensure them a trip to Sub-State next Saturday.