The Becker Bulldog volleyball team suffered two losses this week.  

 

The Bulldogs hosted a strong team from Foley Tuesday night. Head Coach Greg Lynch’s girls struggled in the first two sets to defend against a consistent offense from Foley.  However, in the third set, the

 

Bulldog’s defense was clicking and was able to put up  higher quality passes to setters Sydney Bordson and Abby Maruska, who assisted Becker's own run of consistent kill attempts resulting in a third set win, 25-21.  

 

Unfortunately for the Bulldogs, Foley fought back hard in the fourth set and won the match three sets to one.  

 

Cathedral 3, Bulldogs 0

Thursday, the Bulldogs lost to Granite Ridge Conference's #1 ranked St. Cloud Cathedral at home.

 

Becker started the match with a number of great plays, including a huge kill from outside hitter Lexa Hosier.  However, as the first set continued, Becker began to struggle against Cathedral's solid defensive passing and began to make an increasing number of ball handling errors, leading to a 3-0 match loss.  

 

So far this season, OH Jessica Gruber leads the Bulldog offense, averaging 9.4 kills per match, followed by OH Lexa Hosier with 6.9 and MH Payton Anderson with 6.6.  

 

Josie Berger leads the right side offense with 5.1 kills per set and a hitting percentage of +.139.  

 

Setters Sydney Bordson and Abby Maruska are both averaging 12 assists and an additional 38 assist attempts per match.

 

Defensively, Leah Andersen is leading the team with an average of 12.1 digs per match, followed by Jessica Gruber with 10.6.  Defensive specialist Bria Amundson is close on Jessica's heels with 10.1.  

 

Payton Anderson leads the Bulldogs in blocking with 18 blocks so far this season.  

 

Becker (6-8) travels to Little Falls Tuesday and Mora Thursday. Both matches start at 7:15 p.m. Saturday, they head to Sauk Rapids-Rice High School to participate in a four-team tournament.