VOLGA — The Sioux Valley volleyball team improved to 6-0 on Tuesday night as the Cossacks swept McCook Central/Montrose at the Cossack Center.

The first two sets came easy for the Cossacks as they won by scores of 25-13 and 25-7. Sioux Valley trailed early in the third set but came back to earn the sweep.

“I think we were firing on all cylinders,” said Sioux Valley head coach Jill Vincent. “We passed the ball really well and our setters kept mixing it up.”

After winning the first two sets with ease, the Cossacks fell behind 5-0 in the third set. Sioux Valley battled back and went on an 8-0 run in the middle of the set and were then able to put the Cougars away.

Vincent liked the way her team handled the adversity early in the third set.

“Usually if we get down 4-0 I call timeout, but they kind of had a look in their eyes like, we can do this. I think the upperclassmen on the court at the time really said ‘hey, we can do this one at a time.’ We went on like an 8-0 run and it’s nice to see us on that side of things rather than the other side,” Vincent said.

Sioux Valley had 38 kills as a team and 35 assists. The Cossacks had 45 digs and 10 service aces.

Adison Renkly led the Cossacks with 12 kills, 11 digs and four service aces. Kaedyn Sapp had six kills and 13 digs. Keyra Kruse had seven kills and Emma Gorvin and Lacey Langland each had five kills and two aces. Sunny Hesby had 22 assists and Machaela Gerasch had 10 assists. Caitlin Russell had 13 digs.

Vincent liked the way her players played at the net on Tuesday night.

“Keyra [Kruse] and Lacey [Langland] had really good nights and it was nice to see them get some really good kills. Adison [Renkly] and Kaedyn [Sapp] set the tone. They started off and got a bunch of kills at the beginning of the second set and everyone started to work hard around them. When they can set the standard and the rest of them can play up to that, it’s pretty nice,” Vincent said.

It was the fourth-straight sweep and the fifth of the season for the Cossacks. Up next Sioux valley will head to Baltic to play in the Big East Conference Tournament on Thursday. Vincent said she thought her team did a good job of cleaning some things up after sweeping Castlewood on Saturday, but there are some other things she’d like the Cossacks to work on ahead of the conference tournament.

“After the last game we wanted to clean up our front row free balls, and I think we did that tonight. We probably have to work on getting our blocks closed and playing around those blocks. Also some of the passing out of the back row. Our passers in the back row are a little frustrated with the digging situation, but I thought they did great tonight,” Vincent said.