Hutchinson CC Sports Information
DODGE CITY – The Hutchinson Community College Volleyball team gave Region 6 Tournament top-seed Dodge City all it wanted on Saturday in the semifinals on Saturday at the DC3 Student Events Center.
Tied at 4-4 in the fifth set, the Blue Dragons were outscored 11-3 in the final 14 rallies to see their season come to an end. Dodge City defeated the Blue Dragons 24-26, 25-15, 25-16, 17-25, 15-7.
Hutchinson finished Dayana Acevedo-Trent's second season with a 19-14 record, a four-win improvement from 2025. The Blue Dragons reached No. 20 in the NJCAA rankings for two weeks this season in late September. Dodge City will play No. 2 Colby for the Region 6 championship at 2 p.m on Sunday. Colby defeated Barton in five sets in the other semifinal on Saturday.
The Blue Dragons end their season in the Region 6 Tournament semifinals for the second-straight season. The Blue Dragons went 4-4 in five-set matches this season, 1-1 in five-set matches against Dodge City.
Sophomore Lauren Vasquez had a team-high 18 kills, hitting .152 on 46 attacks to lead the Blue Dragons in the semifinal. Vasquez added eight digs and two aces.
Freshman Kelsi Maier had 13 kills on .108 hitting. Julia Macedo had 10 kills on .125 hitting.
The Blue Dragons were out-hit .304-.154. Dodge City had 58 kills to Hutchinson's 53. The Dragons were also out-blocked 17-6, but Hutchinson out-dug Dodge City 57-42. The Blue Dragons had 10 service aces – Mattie Galliher had three aces, while Vasquez and Arianna Delgado had two aces each.
Setter Klaudia Bilinksa had 42 assists.
Delgado had 12 digs, while 1,000-dig career libero Clara Oliveira had 11 digs. Oliveira finishes her Blue Dragon career fifth in career digs with 1,095 digs.
Kayla Cantrill had 22 kills on .419 hitting to lead Dodge City.
SET 1: The Dragons had a slow start in the opening set falling behind 17-9 after an attack error. The deficit grew to nine points at 20-11 after a Delaney Childs' kill. The Dragons then scored four in a row on Ellie Prather's service run. Trailing 21-15, the Dragons scored five straight points on Delgado's serve, pulling within 21-19 on a Dodge attack error. Trailing 23-20, Galliher's kill gave Hutchinson a crucial side out. Then Galliher had a pair of ace serves to take a 24-23 lead. A Sunny Skipps kill tied the set at 24-all, but Vasquez had back-to-back kills – her kill on set point painted the back line – and the Dragons earned their largest comeback (nine points) to win a set this season, winning 26-24.
SET 2: Dodge City's offense kicked into high gear in the second set hitting .412 and siding out at 68 percent. The Conquistadors led 8-2 and 17-8. Kills by Maier and Macedo and an Ashley Scott ace pulled the Dragons with 17-11. The Conquistadors then rolled to a 25-15 win with 15 kills in the set.
SET 3: The Conquistadors kept pounding away hitting .571 in the third set, while the Dragons hit .069. Back-to-back service aces from Vasquez pulled the Dragons within 10-8. A Vasquez kill kept the Dragons close pulling the Dragons with 16-14. Dodge City then hammered five kills in a set-clinching 9-2 run.
SET 4: Tied at 10 in the fourth set, a Vasquez kill gave the Dragons a lead they didn't relinquish in the remainder of the set. The Dragons hit a match-high .303 in the fourth set and their defense slowed the Dodge run, holding the Conquistadors to .162 hitting. Leading 16-14, a Maier kill started a 9-3 run to close the set. Four different Dragons had kills during the final run with Vasquez tallying three kills and Macedo's kill was on set point for a 25-17 win.