STORM LAKE, Iowa (Oct. 31, 2025) - It was a Halloween showdown inside of Siebens Fieldhouse on Friday night for the Buena Vista volleyball team against visiting Coe College, but the Beavers would come up short, 3-0, despite a tough battle with the Kohawks (16-8, 4-1 A-R-C) by scores of 25-2, 25-19, 25-17.
The two teams went back-and-forth in the opening set as the score was tied three different times early on and not separated by more than three points until Coe broke open an 18-17 margin with four straight points to go up 21-17. Buena Vista battled its way back within 22-20 but the Kohawks scored three of the final four points to take the opening set.
Coe, which is currently second in the A-R-C standings, carried its momentum over into the start of the second set and jumped out to a 9-3 lead. BVU did settle in and clawed back within 13-11 only to have the Kohawks run off three straight to make it a five-point cushion. The Beavers got two of those points back but Coe, which had only a combined four attack errors in the first two sets, responded right back with three straight extend its lead to 19-13 and held off BVU in the end, 25-19.
