Saints breeze through storm

The Saints overwhelmed the Chemeketa Storm Wednesday in a three game sweep that gave the team their third straight win in conference play.

In their first conference game, the Saints bounced back from a loss to Warner Pacific as they traveled down to Coos Bay last Friday to take on Southwest Oregon, sweeping the Lakers (25-20, 25-15, 25-23).

Freshman outside hitter Tori Kemper lead the team with 15 kills in their Friday night sweep. Freshman Lihau Perreira and Sophomore Kylie Kitzmiller each added 13 kills of their own to seal the Saints victory, taking them to 1-0 in the region.

Saturday, the defending champs went down to Roseburg to face Umpqua, who was coming off of a four set victory over Clackamas.

A competitive Riverhawk squad recovered after losing 25-19 in game one to keep the match within striking distance, but couldn’t do enough to win as the Saints won games two and three by a score of 26-24. Being edged out in almost every statistical category still didn’t break the Saints, as they moved to 2-0.

Kemper made herself known yet again with 13 kills, good for a team high yet again, as well as 29 total attacks, another team high in Saturday’s victory.

Wednesday, MHCC welcomed the Chemeketa Storm for their first home league game of the year.

Chemeketa lost their only league game to Linn Benton before Wednesday night’s match. Unfortunately for the Storm, the result wouldn’t change against the Saints. MHCC sailed right past the Storm, routing them in a 3-game sweep (25-12, 25-14, 25-16).

With Wednesday’s win, the team moved to 3-0 in region play, putting them in first in the NWAACC Southern Region standings, and 15-6 overall.

Tonight the Saints will clash against the Linn-Benton Road Runners at 6 p.m. Next Friday MHCC plays host to Clackamas Community College for the “Big Pink” match at 7 p.m.