{"id":9252,"date":"2016-11-20T21:09:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T05:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/?p=9252"},"modified":"2016-11-20T21:09:29","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T05:09:29","slug":"volleyball-finishes-seventh-at-nwac-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/2016\/11\/20\/volleyball-finishes-seventh-at-nwac-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Volleyball Finishes Seventh at NWAC Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Freshman Kyla Mellick came out of a reserve role and helped Bellevue with two big wins in loser-bracket play leading BC to a seventh-place finish.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After a tough opening round loss to the South Region #4 seed, Umpqua (OR), the Bellevue College Bulldogs scrapped their way to a seventh-place finish at the NWAC Championships in Tacoma. The four-day event, held at the Greater Tacoma Convention Center, featured the top 16 teams in the NWAC. The seventh-place finish matches Bellevue’s finish for the last two years.<\/p>\n

On opening day, Thursday November 17, the Bulldogs appeared to be in cruise control winning 25-20 in games one and two before falling 25-19, 25-15 and finally 15-13. Shea O’Brien had 13 kills to lead BC. The Bulldogs then had to come back and play perhaps the toughest of all elimination games as they faced a highly-ranked Spokane team. The Bulldogs won 25-21 and 25-19. Freshman Kyla Mellick stepped in for an injured Averi Dyer and came up big with eight kills and three service aces.<\/p>\n

On Friday November 18, the Bulldogs knocked off another East Region powerhouse, topping North Idaho College (20-25, 25-10, 15-10). Mellick had 11 digs and five service aces while O’Brien and Audrey Saelens had seven kills apiece.<\/p>\n

The Bulldogs then had to take on perennial NWAC powerhouse, Blue Mountain; Bellevue’s third straight East Region foe in loser-bracket play. This time, the squad could not overcome the depth of the East Region, bowing 25-15, 25-22 in straight sets.<\/p>\n

Bellevue ended the season 36-10; one of the best records of all-time for the Bulldogs. The squad also defeated two of the top-ranked teams in the NWAC including North Idaho, a former national junior college powerhouse.<\/p>\n

On Sunday November 20, the Bulldogs were also well-represented in the All-Star Game. Saelens, O’Brien, Kendle Valade-Nunez, and Alexis LeClech were named to the team for the North Region. The squad defeated the South Region two games to one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Freshman Kyla Mellick came out of a reserve role and helped Bellevue with two big wins in loser-bracket play leading BC to a seventh-place finish. After a tough opening round loss to the South Region #4 seed, Umpqua (OR), the Bellevue College Bulldogs scrapped their way to a seventh-place finish at the NWAC Championships in ...more about Volleyball Finishes Seventh at NWAC Championships<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[32,6,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-volleyball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9257,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9252\/revisions\/9257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bellevuecollege.edu\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}