Thunder and Tigers battle in five sets in Ipswich

North Central began last week with a five set volleyball defeat to Ipswich at Ipswich last Monday and then also lost to Leola/Frederick in straight sets at home a night later.

First things first! The Thunder lost the tiebreaker set 15-10 and that match point was delivered by Ipswich's Marley Guthmiller. She ended up with 19 kills among her 48 accurate hits and Kaylin Onken was next at 17-21 with six kills. The Tiger team totaled 70 hits with 38 of them being kills. The Thunder countered with 109 hits in 133 tries that included 36 kills. Billie Jo Hoffman finished 20-23 with seven kills and Nat...