Feb 28, 2021

Cougars take over second with road sweep at Garden City

Posted Feb 28, 2021 3:13 PM

The Barton Community College volleyball team rebounded from its Wednesday night loss in Liberal to knock Garden City Community College from the conference unbeaten with a 3-0 sweep Saturday evening in Garden City.

The Cougars trailed only twice on the night, both early in the first and second sets, before rolling up the Broncbusters with a pair of 25-11 scores then wrapped up the night scoring the final five points of the 25-19 match clincher.

Moving into sole possession of 2nd place in the Division I standings, Barton improves to 4-1 in league play and 12-3 overall while Garden City drops to 3-1 and 7-7 on the season.

Barton's next two contests come at the Barton Gym beginning Monday hosting Butler Community College and Thursday against Hutchinson Community College. First serve slated for 6:30 p.m. for each match.

Mylena Testoni's second double-double in the last three matches led the Cougars with ten kills and thirteen digs. Testoni's .529 attack with just one error on seventeen swings, marked the sixth time of attacking over .500 thus far in the season.

Isabella Guedes led the 6-2 offense with 23 assists with Hanna Miller leading the backline with 14 digs as Tasiah Nunnery collected eleven. Joelle LaForce led the Cougars' twenty block party effort with five while Addison Crites, Maria Santos, and Jadyn Brown each put up four walls of denial.