Volleyball Defeats Sartell in Final Home Match before Sections
The team put up an impressive performance against Sartell winning 3 out of 4 sets
The Bison Volleyball team defeated the Sartell Sabers in their last home match on Thursday, October 8. The Bison won 3 out of 4 sets and were out-pacing Sartell for the majority of the match.
The Bison started off the match strong by scoring the first point. They stayed ahead of Sartell the whole game. The Bison held around an 8 point lead throughout many rallies up until Sartell scored 6 consecutive points, bringing it to 22-20, causing the Bison to take a timeout. The Bison pushed through to win the first set 25-21 without letting Sartell hold the lead at any point.
After every point, win or loss, each team would huddle to celebrate or shake it off and get ready for the next point. Neither team got down on themselves throughout the match.
The Bison kept up the pace by scoring the first 2 points of the second set. Both teams stayed pretty close in score throughout the match. The Bison closed off the second set 25-20. The Bison won another set without letting Sartell hold the lead at any point again.
Up until the third set the BHS pep band kept the energy and spirit up and played many songs such as, Radioactive, Seven Nation Army, Bad Romance, and many more. The pep band also played the school song, Stand for our Team, many times throughout the match.
The Bison only needed one more set to win the match but the Sabers started picking up their pace. The Sabers got their first lead of the match. 9 serves into the set Sartell was winning 7-2. Buffalo kept trying, but it wasn’t enough, and the Sabers won the third set 25-18.
The Bison needed 1 more set to win the match while the Sabers needed to win the next 2 in order to come out victorious. At this point in the match the Bison had been performing well against Sartell for 3 sets but they knew that if they wanted to secure the win, they would have to try their best.
The Bison came out hot in the fourth set by scoring the first 2 points. The Bison scored an ace to make the score 14-8, causing Sartell to take a timeout. The Bison turned up the heat, scoring 6 of the last 7 serves winning 25-14, the biggest win all day.
The Bison really made this last home match special by scoring a total of 93 points against Sartell’s 70 points. The Bison now have 12 wins and 8 losses after this impressive performance against Sartell.
Their next match is away on Tuesday, October 20 against Zimmerman and their last match of the season will be an away match on Thursday, October 22 against Spring Lake Park.
