Lions tame Cougars in three sets

by The Daily Inter Lake
| October 1, 2019 1:52 AM

The Eureka Lions took out the Stillwater Cougars in non-conference volleyball at Stillwater Christian School on Tuesday.

Scores were 25-14, 25-15, 25-21.

“Eureka has strong, consistent servers and we struggled in our serve-receive tonight,” Stillwater coach Katie Guthrie said. “Our setter, Sophia Sulzbacher, worked hard and did a great job of putting up good sets and getting up some great digs.”

Sulzbacher served three aces and had 10 digs.

Eureka’s Avory Escobar had three service aces, five kills and 15 assists.

The Lions play Troy in an away game at 1 p.m. on Saturday.

Aces — Eureka 17 (Avory Escobar 5, Michael Shea 4, Rhianna Hawkins 4), Stillwater 9 (Sophia Sulzbacher 3, Sydney McKerrow 3); Kills — Eureka 20 (Maggie Graves 9, Escobar 5), Stillwater 22 (Abby Hudson 6, Selah Neumann 6); Blocks — Eureka 1 (Katie Schmidt 1), Stillwater 2 (Kayla Oyler 1, Hudson 1); Assists — Eureka 16 (Escobar 15), Stillwater 21 (Sulzbacher 18); Digs — Eureka 40 (Hawkins 15, Graves 8), Stillwater 34 (Sulzbacher 10, McKerrow 9).