EUGENE, Ore.  – Playing one of their best offensive matches of the night, the Bushnell volleyball team got back on track with a four-set victory at Evergreen on Friday, 25-16, 25-20, 26-28, 25-12.
 
The victory propelled Bushnell (17-10, 12-7 CCC) back into third place in the Cascade Collegiate Conference, where they are now tied with both Evergreen and Southern Oregon with three matches remaining in the regular season.
 
It was a relatively flawless evening for the Beacons, despite a setback in the third as they hit .368 in the match. The decisive fourth set featured 16 kills and just two errors as the team pulled away.
 
Head Coach Jason Corwin said, "This was another good team performance tonight. It was one of the cleanest attacking games we have played and against a really tough opponent. We will enjoy this for a few more minutes and then start getting ready for another tough team tomorrow.
 
In a showdown between the top two setters in the CCC, Bushnell's Makenna Northern won the battle with Evergreen's Sierra Wolff. Northern finished with 47 assists and 13 digs, adding four kills. Wolff posted 39 assists with seven digs and three kills.
 
Northern distributed the ball well with all three primary pin attackers earning double-digit kills. Halle Neumann led all players with 18 kills while Shay Coons added 12 kills to just one error for a .579 attacking clip. Jessica Northcutt posted ten kills and nine digs.
 
Payton Jones added seven kills and multiple blocks and Callie Wilkins secured a match-high 17 digs. Logan Kaneshiro added eight digs and posted two of the five team aces.
 
Evergreen (13-10, 12-7) was led by 13 kills apiece from Zoe Shaw and Lily Stewart. Rylee grams added 14 digs in the loss.
 
After the match, Jones said, "We made it a team goal for this weekend to finish what we started and thankfully we did just that tonight."
 
Kaneshiro said, "We knew going into this weekend that none of the games would be handed to us. They took the third set that we have been struggling to close but we got back on our feet and left everything on the court in the fourth set."
 
"I am proud of how our team finished strong and had great energy all match long," added Neumann. "Another win tomorrow night is very important for us and this was exactly the momentum that we needed."
 
Bushnell closes out the penultimate weekend of the regular season on Saturday evening, taking on Northwest at 5:00 pm. The Eagles (13-14, 9-10) are desperate to keep their own post-season hopes alive, while the Beacons can clinch a post-season berth with a victory.