by Bobby Abplanalp
Wyoming Sports.org
The Wyoming Cowgirls snapped a six-game a losing streak and beat the Colorado Christian Cougars 3-1 (22-25, 25-16, 25-14, 25-22) Tuesday night at the UniWyo Sports Complex.
Wyoming (11-15, 1-10 Mountain West Conference), stepped out of conference play to take on Colorado Christian (5-24, 1-15 Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference), before playing conference foes San Diego State and Air Force to close out the week.
Facing the Division II School out of Lakewood, Colo., at home figured to be just the tune up the Cowgirls needed to begin the week, but the Cougars had other ideas and came out of the gate with inspired play and shocked the home team winning the first set.
“Colorado Christian, this match really mattered to them,” UW head coach Carrie Yerty said. “They came in ready to play and we did not come ready to play, and it was very obvious.”
Yerty said perhaps her team was overlooking their opponent to their next match with San Diego State.
“I don’t think that our focus was there tonight, but I do commend the team for coming back and winning," Yerty said.
Winning is what the Cowgirls did indeed after the first set and overwhelmed the visitors by a combined score of 50-30 in the next two sets to lead the match 2-1, but the pesky Cougars still would not go away.
The fourth and final set was a back-and-forth battle between two teams hungry for a win. With Colorado Christian clinging to a 22-21 lead, the Cowgirls scored three straight to regain the lead at 24-22. Wyoming would then score the match point, but not without some drama. The final kill hit the west end-line and it was initially ruled out-of-bounds with the point going the other way, but a brief conference by the officials confirmed that the ball hit the end-line and the point went to the home team securing their 11th win of the season.
“Right now, it’s a good confidence boost,” UW junior JennaRae Jester said. “Game one, we weren’t completely all there together, but to make game two better than game one, game three better than two, and four better than three, and that’s what we came out here to do and hopefully that will give our team a lot of confidence.”
Jester had 13 kills in the match, following teammate Jodi Purdy, who had a game-high 16 kills with 12 digs, while Lauren Whitney contributed 10 kills of her own.
Colorado Christian was led by Andi Weber, Taryn Coughlin, and Brooke Wittmayer each recording nine kills and Wittmayer also chipped in 14 digs.
Wyoming will take a day off and then step back into conference play Thursday night against the San Diego State Aztecs, beginning at 7 p.m., in the UniWyo Sports Complex
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