Box Score Las Vegas, N.M. - The NMHU Cowgirls won a close one in tonight's match (Oct. 29) against the Colorado State University- Pueblo ThunderWolves. The Cowgirls, led by Head Coach
Bryan Crawford, move up to 5-9 in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference and 11-12 in overall play.
NMHU 3 – CSUP 1
In the first set, the Cowgirls started strong and got a lead (7-4) , but there were some errors that helped the ThunderWolves come back and take the lead ( 10-7). That did not scare your Cowgirls though and they battled to take the first set from the ThunderWolves (26-24).
Second set was the ThunderWolves all the way. Pueblo had the lead the whole set and took it (25-20).
After the break, the Cowgirls came out strong and got a lead (6-0), but because of some hitting errors the ThunderWolves were back in it. Towards the end, the ThunderWolves made some huge errors and a great kill by
Jazmine Harge to end the third set (28-26).
The last set was a battle between these two volleyball teams. Kill after kill and error after error, but your Cowgirls pulled out on top and got a big lead to wrap up tonight's match (25-15).
Tonight's top performers' were
Darian Mullen with 16 kills and
Alicia Moreno with 15 kills
The Cowgirls will continue conference action on Saturday, Nov. 2, against in-state rivals Western New Mexico University in Silver City, N.M. Last time these two teams played was in the John A. Wilson Complex and the Mustangs took the match (3-0). If you can't make it out to Silver City you can to catch your Cowgirls in action, you can watch the match on the
America One Network.
GO COWGIRLS!!!
