{"id":31316,"date":"2023-10-05T22:09:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T04:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bayfield-volleyball-sweeps-montezuma-cortez\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:38:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:38:28","slug":"bayfield-volleyball-sweeps-montezuma-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bayfield-volleyball-sweeps-montezuma-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"Bayfield volleyball sweeps Montezuma-Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Bayfield senior Katie Killinen (13) attacks against Montezuma-Cortez during Intermountain League volleyball action Tuesday night. Courtesy of Joel Priest<\/span>cca<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

The Bayfield Lady Wolverines beat Montezuma Cortez in straight sets on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n

Bayfield (4-11 overall, 2-4 in 3A Intermountain league play) took a 3-2 lead in the first set and never lost the upper hand. Despite expanding their lead to as great as 17-10, the Lady Wolverines found that the Lady Panthers (2-13, 0-6) weren\u2019t about to concede. A kill by Montezuma-Cortez\u2019s Delta Suckla made it a 23-21 first set, but Bayfield took the opening set thanks to a Evelyn Hollibaugh shot off M-CHS\u2019 block, then an Avery Shipman ace clipping enough of the end line to be ruled in play.<\/p>\n

The Lady Wolverines took control early in the second set with a kill by Kambrie Byrd, but Montezuma-Cortez didn\u2019t make it easy and pressed Bayfield coach Terene Foutz to use a timeout. Katie Killinen came back with a kill abd paired with Byrd on a scoring block to get Bayfield restarted.<\/p>\n

Killinen\u2019s hardest kill shot of the night increased BHS\u2019s lead to 14-9, and she followed it up with an ace. A Byrd cross-court kill later put Bayfield up 23-13 to secure the second set.<\/p>\n

Killinen effectively got BHS out of the lengthy slump by holding serve for seven points early in the third set \u2013 the last being an ace which hooked down, skidded off the near sideline and into their opponent\u2019s bench area \u2013 and putting the home team, for all practical purposes, out of visiting Montezuma-Cortez\u2019s reach.<\/p>\n

Killinen\u2019s next serve sailed long, but after M-CHS\u2019s Tessa Jackson served an ace, Barber countered with a kill shot, and the Lady Wolverines set about rebuilding their advantage to 20-7 before Lady Panther coach Skylar Robinson decided to use her second and final timeout.<\/p>\n

After M-CHS scored a point, the Lady Wolverines responded with a kill by Hollibaugh and an ace by Shipman. Killinen soon tallied another kill to make it 23-9, then Barber and Tanna Owens put the match away with the Wolverines\u2019 final two points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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