Bronco volleyball eyeing postseason

    The Wauneta-Palisade volleyball team started off its RPAC tournament with a first round win over Hitchcock County, but ended its appearance with losses to Maywood/Hayes Center (22-1) and Paxton (22-6)
    WP traveled to Hayes Center for its first and second round matches last Thursday and its match Monday.
    The Broncos’ victory against Hitchcock County (8-21) was their third win of the season over the Falcons.
    WP only led the first set 9-8 before breaking the set open for a 25-18 win. The Broncos trailed 3-10 before storming back with 10-straight points to take the lead. WP held a one-point lead in the second set, 21-20, before closing out the 25-20 win. The Broncos’ 23-13 third set lead shrunk to 23-21 before WP took a 25-23 win.
    WP went on to face MHC that same night. The Broncos lost 12-25, 13-25, 16-25 to the Wolves. Putting together scoring runs was tough throughout the night against Class D1’s second ranked team.
    The RPAC tournament ended Monday night with a 25-19, 25-19 loss to Paxton.
RPAC Tournament results
West bracket—Thursday
#2 Wallace 3, #7 DCS 0
#3 Paxton 3, #6 Maxwell 0
#6 Maxwell 2, #7 DCS 0
#2 Wallace 3, #3 Paxton 1
#4 WP 3, #5 Hitchcock Co. 0
#1 MHC 3, #4 WP 0
East bracket—Thursday
#2 Southwest 3, #7 Bertrand 0
#3 Alma 3, #6 SV 1
#2 Southwest 3, #3 Alma 0
#5 Arapahoe 3, #4 MV 0
#1 Cambridge 3, #5 Arapahoe 0
#6 SV 2, #7 Bertrand 0
West bracket—Monday
#1 MHC 3, #2 Wallace 0
#3 Paxton 2, #4 WP 0
#5 Hitchcock Co. 2, #6 Maxwell 1
East bracket­—Monday
#2 Southwest 3, #1 Cambridge 2
#3 Alma 2, #5 Arapahoe 0
#6 SV 2, #4 MV 0
Championship game—Tuesday
#2 Southwest vs. #1 MHC
Consolation game—Tuesday
#1 Cambridge vs #2 Wallace
Five-set win over MV
    The Broncos’ week started with a wild Tuesday win at home over Medicine Valley (12-10).
    WP jumped out to an 8-1 lead  in the first set, but MV used three big rotations to give the Broncos a 16-25 loss. WP trailed throughout a 22-25 loss in the second set. The tide turned in the third set. The Broncos took their first lead in the set at 25-24 and won 27-25. WP broke open a 13-13 tie in the fourth set to win 25-16, then finished off MV with a 15-11 win in the fourth set. Up next
    With the completion of the RPAC tournament, WP will wrap up its regular season with a home date against Brady (10-16) Friday.
    Postseason play will begin Monday. As the highest seed, Wallace will host the D2-9 subdistrict games. The Broncos are in line for the third seed and will likely have a rematch with Paxton. Official pairing will be released later this week.
    The 12 subdistrict winners and the next four non-subdistrict winners with the highest averages in the point standings will be seeded into district pairings.
    Districts will be played Saturday, Oct. 29.
Class D2 point standings:
1. Howells-Dodge (23-3), 47.4615
2. Overton (25-3), 46.7857
3. Humphrey St. Francis (22-3), 46.2000
4. Shelton (27-1), 46.0714
5. Diller-Odell (24-5), 45.2759
6. FCSH (21-7), 45.2143
7. Wallace (25-4), 45.1379
8. St. Mary’s (23-4), 44.7037
9. Stuart (19-8), 44.2593
10. Wynot (18-9), 43.9259
11. Exeter-Milligan (17-9), 43.8077
12. High Plains Comm. (20-7), 43.7407
13. Hay Springs (21-5), 43.5769
14. Paxton (21-6), 43.4815
15. Potter-Dix (21-6), 43.1111
16. HTRS (14-12), 42.6923
24. WP (9-16), 40.9200
36. Hitchcock County (8-21), 38.8621
47. DCS (0-27), 36.8519
Subdistrict D2-9 in bold.