SPEARFISH, S.D.- The Black Hills State Yellow Jackets fall in their second straight home match to CSU Pueblo as the Thunderwolves took the win 3-0. BHSU was able to keep the first set really close and nearly won it, before CSUP closed it out and then won the next two sets. Izabel Abril and Peyton McLeod each had great games defensively with five blocks a piece.
 
QUICK DETAILS
Score: Black Hills State 0, CSU Pueblo 3
Team Records: Black Hills State (4-8 (1-3 RMAC)), CSU Pueblo (8-4 (4-0 RMAC))
Attendance: 223
 
HOW IT HAPPENED

• The match started with each team winning two points in a row and then winning another two points in a row, which made the score 4-4 with Randi Wellhoefer, Emily Freeland, and McLeod all getting kills. Each team would win three of the next six points, before CSUP took the lead 8-7. They then would win five points in a row that included back-to-back aces to take a 13-7 lead. BHSU would answer right back winning five of the next six points with kills from Abril, Wellhoefer, and Freeland and a block by Abril and Davis-Golliher and cut the lead to two. Pueblo would win two points in a row to take a 16-12 lead before BHSU would win four in a row to tie it at 16. Pueblo would then go on a 5-1 run with two kills by Finja Schul to take a 21-17 lead. The Yellow Jackets would close it again with a 4-1 run that included a block and kill by McLeod and the score would be 22-21. CSU Pueblo would get a huge block and then Thunderwolves star Caelyn Gunn would get a kill to end the set at 25-22 to take a 1-0 lead.
• CSUP started the second set on a 13-5 run with two kills by Freeland and a kill by McLeod being the lone highlights. Abril would get three kills and a block to help cut the lead down to 16-11 before Pueblo would win nine of the next 11 points to take set two on a BHSU attack error 25-13. This gave the Thunderwolves a 2-0 lead.
• The third set started neck and neck as Carsyn Mettler and Abril each had a kill and a block early to keep the score 5-5. CSU Pueblo would then win four in a row on two Schul aces to take a 9-5 lead. BHSU would get the score back down to 11-9 with kills from Mettler and Abril and a block from Abril and McLeod. However, after that CSUP turned on the jets and won 12 points in a row before a McLeod and Zoie Husman block ended the streak and the score was 24-10. Gunn would end the set a point later with a kill to give Pueblo the 3-0 win.

 
BLACK HILLS STATE STATISTICAL LEADERS
Izabel Abril: 11 points, 8 kills, 5 blocks
Emily Freeland: 7 kills, 7 digs
Peyton McLeod: 3 kills, 5 blocks
 
UP NEXT
Black Hills State will have their RMAC regional pod action this next week which will start Tuesday night in Rapid City, where they will face South Dakota Mines in the King Center at 7 PM and will then host Chadron State on Saturday in A2 Arena.
 
 
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