Peru State College Athletics

(Creve Couer, Mo.)- The Peru State College volleyball team suffered a 3-0 setback to Heart of America Athletic Conference member and nationally ranked Missouri Baptist on Saturday afternoon. The Bobcats fell to the Spartans in a scoreline of 14-25, 20-25, and 21-25.
 
The loss drops Peru State to 17-10 overall and 9-7 in the Heart slate while Missouri Baptist rises to 25-2 and continues to hold a perfect 16-0 Conference record.
 
The opening set would see both teams battle for position in a six-point series (3-3) until the Spartans used a 12-4 run to hold an eight-point advantage (15-7). The Bobcats would take the following point but a 4-2 push from Missouri Baptist would take the score to 19-10, back-to-back Eden Moore (Eagle, Nebraska / Waverly High School) kills would shorten the lead to seven (19-12), until a 6-2 Spartan spurt would take the first set 25-14.
 
Set two began with Peru State jumping ahead to a 7-4 advantage that saw kills from three separate Bobcats but Missouri Baptist would find a 4-1 run to knot the set at eight, neither team could pull away in a 15-point stretch that saw a Peru State kill capture a one-point lead (16-15), until the Spartans would utilize a 7-1 run to boast a five-point edge (22-17) and would coast as they would win the second set 25-20.
 
The third set saw Missouri Baptist take an 8-4 jump and after a 3-1 run by the Bobcats would slice the lead to two (9-7), the Spartans would respond through a 7-1 run to pull the lead to eight (16-8). An 8-5 series in favor of Peru State would see the lead cut to five (21-16) then the Bobcats would score four of the next five which was powered by three block assists from Addison Schneider (Humphrey, Nebraska / Humphrey High School) to drop the lead to two and force a Missouri Baptist timeout (23-21), the Spartans would score the following two to claim the victory 25-21.
 
Offensively Peru State was paced by Shealie Wiebers (Papillion, Nebraska / Papillion-La Vista High School) who notched eight kills on the afternoon while Moore marked six kills at a .294 clip, Teodora Bulatovic (Tivat, Montenegro. / SMŠ "Mladost" Tivat) put up 19 assists while Samantha Chesley (Lincoln, Nebraska / Pius X High School) saw nine.
 
Defensively Braelyn Braithwaite (Elkhorn, Nebraska / Elkhorn South High School) would total 15 digs while Wiebers would find 12, Schneider would lead the blocking efforts with three block assists.
 
The Bobcats are back in the Al Wheeler Activity Center on Thursday to take on Conference foe Grand View at 7:00 PM.