Eagles lose to RMAC teams

Chadron State’s volleyball team struggled on the road again against Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference teams after another weekend of four-set game loses in Colorado.

“We battled until the very end which is really good to see as a whole,” Jennifer Stadler, head volleyball coach, said. “We’re making a couple errors late in the matches which is not allowing us to close out when we are ahead or when we are within a point or two.”

The Eagles pushed the game to four sets by winning the second set both Friday against Fort Lewis College and Saturday against Western Colorado University, after losing the first. They were unable to continue the battle through the rest of the games, losing the third and fourth sets both days.

Chadron State has fallen to all of its RMAC opponents that it faced while on the road, leaving the team with a record of 3-10.

Despite their losses, the Eagles had strong blocks both days, recording 17 to Fort Lewis’s four and 14 to Western Colorado’s eight.

“I believe that we are doing a lot of things right,” Amelia Berg, senior of Fort Collins, Colorado, said. “We have to be more efficient putting the ball away. We have what it takes and we have been building on that every week and all of our pieces are coming together.”

Against Fort Lewis, Berg contributed largely to many areas, leading the team with four aces and 15 digs. She had six kills of 23 attacks and five blocks.

On Saturday, Berg also had five blocks and 22 digs.

“Amelia is one of our most consistent players all the way around,” Stadler said. “She plays six rotations for us and I think she’s just doing a really good job of being consistent in all of the roles and being a leader.”

Amber Harvey led the Eagles both games in kills with 19 of 36 attacks Friday and 13 of 46 attacks Saturday.

Aiyana Fujiyama, had eight of the team’s 17 blocks against Fort Lewis, and against Western Colorado, she had six blocks Saturday and eight kills of 21 attacks.

Rylee Greiman, totaled two aces and 33 digs over the weekend.

CSC returns to the Chicoine Center this weekend at 6 p.m., Friday for Dig Pink Night against New Mexico Highlands University and its homecoming game at 6 p.m., Saturday against Adams State University.

“It’ll be really nice to play at home but also with all the other activities going on it will just hopefully be a really good atmosphere and environment for our players.” Stadler said.