North Platte – The North Platte Community College Lady Knights (14-12) volleyball team dropped two matches this week. The Lady Knights first traveled to Sterling, Colo. where they faced the Northeastern Junior College Plainswomen for the third time this season. After splitting the first two games, the first set was an epic battle with the Plainswomen earning the hard fought 33-35 set victory. Northeastern won the next two sets to take the match 16-25 and 25-27. North Platte then returned home to host Northeast Community College for the second time this season with North Platte winning the first meeting in five sets. This time Northeast emerged victorious with a three set win 19-25, 21-25, 22-25.

Against Northeastern Junior College, Valerie Most and Samantha Byrn led the way for the Lady Knights. Most finished with 16 kills while Byrn had 13. Samantha Kennedy was held to only six kills. Joli Hopping recorded 40 assists while Erica Goodwin had 22 digs. Kennedy also had 12 digs and Byrn had 11. Anais Vargas and Yuting Qi led the Plainswomen with 12 and 11 kills respectively.

In the second game of the week against Northeast, Kennedy led the way with 12 kills while Most was right behind with 10. Joli Hopping recorded 32 assists and 11 digs. Erica Goodwin had 20 digs, Abigail Kurtzer had 19 and Kennedy had 16.

The Lady Knights return to action on Wednesday, October 8 at 6 p.m. as they face Southeast Community College who defeated North Platte in five sets earlier this year. The Lady Knights then take to the road for the Jimmy John Invite in Columbus on Friday, October 10 and Saturday, October 11 where they will face Cowley County Community College, Bismarck State College, Williston State College and Kansas City Kansas Community College.