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MITCHELL, S.D. - The Mayville State Comet Volleyball squad ventured down to Mitchell, S.D. to take part in the Corn Palace Tournament, hosted by Dakota Wesleyan University.  Two games were on tap for the Comets to endure in their first day of a two-day contest.  

The first match of the day began with the University of Montana-Western Bulldogs. Both teams had similar 2-2 records heading into the matchup, which ended up going to 5 sets and each team winning by 5 points or less in each match. The Comets came back in the last two sets in the match in an absolute fight to the finish. The fifth set came down the wire with the Comets taking a charge to take the final set and win the match. 

In that match, UM-W was a very tough battle in the first two sets, the Bulldogs escaped with two straight wins at 26-24 and 25-23 scores in some tight contests. With their backs to the wall, the Comets began their surge in the third set, capturing a 25-20 win to stay alive.  Set 4 was another close one that pushed to everyone involved, the Comets nabbed that one in a 25-22 battle.  For the final set in the contest, it once again became another set down to the wire, with the Comets taking the series in a 16-14 win and the 3-2 overall victory.  

In the final match of the day, the Comets waited until almost 9:00 p.m. to play against the host school, Dakota Wesleyan.  The first two sets were an all-out see-saw battle on the hardwood. DWU and the Comets tied it up multiple times until the Tigers hit a stretch and took a 16-10 lead. Their lead looked to stay in place when it hit 23-17, but the Comets were not done fighting. A fired-up 6-0 run by MSU tied it all at 23, with two more ties at 24 and 25 DWU escaped with the 27-25 win for Set #1.

In Set #2, the Comets found themselves down 10-5 early in the set, but continued to push onward and locked the score up at 13 and 4 after that before it reached 19-19. The Comets took control and fought off a late fight from the Tigers and won the second set 25-23. Things went awry for the Comets in the third set, as they couldn't find a good flow and DWU took advantage of the situation. The Tigers came on strong with a 12-3 run to tie things up at 18. The back-and-forth nature of the two teams kept the score tight until the Tigers came out ahead 25-22 and took the match 3-1 overall.  

Despite the loss to end the day, the Comets finished well with some impressive numbers in their match versus the Tigers.  Victoria Johnson led with 6 blocks and also led with 14 kills. Cassidy Miller collected 11 Kills to reach double digits as well.  In Assists, Jana Mehus added 44 in the effort, while Jayden Warner led with 46 digs. Three other Comets were in double figures on digs, those being Mason Hart with 21, Natalie Hadrava with 18 and Jordyn Lucas with 14. 

Coach Lindsey Johnson loved seeing the fight in her team during the day's action: "In the first match today, it was nice to see the ladies fight back and end with a victory. We came back from being down 0-2 and finishing the match was huge for us. In our second match, I felt like we had moments where we did great things and moments where we lapsed and allowed a lot of runs. We were offensively very balanced and the loss was one to build on."
The Comets keep their record at .500 at 3-3 after the day's split, and head into Saturday's action that starts at 10:00 a.m. versus Sterling College, and then Mount Marty College at 4:0 p.m.