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The North Branch volleyball team came back from the huge Midwest Volleyball Warehouse Showcase tournament to win two straight Mississippi 8 Conference match ups last week.

The Vikings swept the Becker Bulldogs on Tuesday, September 16 before taking a five set comeback thriller from Big Lake on Thursday, September 18. 

Against Becker, North Branch was never in much danger. They won the sets 25-15, 25-14, 25-14 and ran away in nearly all of them before the Bulldog offense could get going.

Against Big Lake, the Hornets took the first set 25-17 before North Branch responded with a 25-18 win in the second set. Big Lake pushed the Vikes to the brink, though, with a third set win at 25-20. The Vikings wouldn’t go away, though, crushing Big Lake the rest of the way, winning 25-14 in the fourth set and 15-6 in the last set to secure the come-from-behind win.

The Vikings will travel to Zimmerman and Princeton for back-to-back away contests in the M8C before hosting Andover and St. Francis in early October and finishing with an away game at Chisago Lakes on Tuesday, October 14.

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