{"id":800105,"date":"2019-10-05T19:17:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-06T01:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=372568"},"modified":"2019-10-05T19:17:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-06T01:17:30","slug":"summit-high-volleyball-wins-three-matches-as-runner-up-at-battle-mountain-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/summit-high-volleyball-wins-three-matches-as-runner-up-at-battle-mountain-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit High volleyball wins three matches as runner-up at Battle Mountain Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kyla Hildebrand (6) and the Summit High Tigers’ varsity volleyball team take on the Palisade Bulldogs at Summit High in Breckenridge on Sept. 28.<\/strong>
Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

The Summit High School volleyball team departed this weekend\u2019s Battle Mountain Tournament with improved confidence thanks to three wins and a runner-up finish.<\/p>\n

The Tigers (5-7) began the tournament\u2019s pool play Friday night at Battle Mountain High School with a three-sets-to-one win over the Aspen Skiers. The Tigers recovered after a 25-21 first set loss to the Skiers, winning the second set 25-12, the third set 25-18 and the fourth set 27-25.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are very quick in the middle,\u201d Summit Head Coach Kelly Schneweis said of Aspen. \u201cWe did a good job at defending against the middle and making sure that we were targeting certain players on serve receives. I felt like our serving and passing helped in the entire match.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Tigers then clawed back to defeat Northfield High from Denver in four sets after dropping the first set 25-22. Summit won three consecutive sets 25-13, 25-21 and 25-20. They entered Saturday morning\u2019s finale of pool play undefeated at the tournament.<\/p>\n

\u201cNorthfield was a very physical outside hitting team,\u201d Schneweis said. \u201cTheir setters were very consistent, but we continued to work on our system and we had few errors, and I think that\u2019s what helped to take it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Summit began Saturday down a few players, who taking the SAT, but defeated Vail Christian in straight sets 25-12, 25-14 and 25-20.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll three sets we took the early lead on some tough serves by senior Anna Confer,\u201d Schneweis said. \u201cAnd we had senior Lauren Fox and junior Mya Nicholds, they were our setters the entire match and it really helped with Lauren being in the front row for blocking and offense. And Maya did a really good job keeping her hitters swinging.\u201d<\/p>\n

Summit also benefited from the Saturday morning return of starting middle Olivia Brewer, who was out of action for several weeks due to an ankle injury. Schneweis said Brewer quickly found her groove, re-finding her timing and connecting with Summit\u2019s setters.<\/p>\n

The three-win streak led up to the championship against the winners of the other pool, the home-team Battle Mountain Huskies, a team Summit lost to at home in four sets earlier this year. For this game, outside hitter Camden Gallen and middle Christina Koetteritz returned from the SAT.<\/p>\n

The Huskies advanced to the title game after a hard-fought four-set win over Alamosa, one of the top teams in the state. Against Battle Mountain, Summit lost the first set 25-10, with the Huskies out-serving and out-passing the Tigers in front of their energetic home crowd.<\/p>\n

Summit recovered, grinding out the second set for a 27-25 win.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we started passing better,\u201d Schneweis said, \u201cwhich allowed us to run our middle more often, and we were playing much better defense.\u201d<\/p>\n

Battle Mountain then won the third set 25-12, the Tigers struggling to stop the Huskies\u2019 middle. The Tigers started the fourth set down 10-20, eventually making a game of it in before losing 25-16.<\/p>\n

Summit will travel back to Battle Mountain on Thursday after a home match versus Eagle Valley on Tuesday (Summit High, 6:30 p.m.). <\/p>\n

\u201cI think we can adjust to what they showed us today,\u201d Schneweis said of the Tigers\u2019 next game versus the Huskies.<\/p>\n

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Kyla Hildebrand (6) and the Summit High Tigers’ varsity volleyball team take on the Palisade Bulldogs at Summit High in Breckenridge on Sept. 28.Liz Copan \/ ecopan@summitdaily.com The Summit High School volleyball team departed this weekend\u2019s Battle Mountain Tournament with improved confidence thanks to three wins and a runner-up finish. The Tigers (5-7) began the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-800105","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 00:20:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}