BY JIM MISUNAS
jmisunas@gbtribune.com<\/p>\n
As comebacks go, Great Bend’s volleyball team achieved a rare feat rallying from a 2-set deficit to stun 6A Manhattan in Wednesday’s 5-set thriller.<\/p>\n
State-ranked Manhattan dominated the first two sets 25-15, 25-11 keyed by Weber State commit Bailey Busch that might’ve convinced Indian fans to chant, “Warm Up the Bus.”<\/p>\n
Great Bend coach Tina Johnson witnessed perhaps the greatest comeback she’s seen in her longtime career.<\/p>\n
Great Bend rallied 25-15, 25-23 and 15-11 to surprise the Indians in five sets by mixing up their attack against the Indians’ block at the net.<\/p>\n
Micah Ellegood and <\/p>\n
“Our girls showed grit tonight. It was a great team effort, one of the most exciting matches I’ve coached,” Johnson said. “Those girls finished that match. That was awesome.”<\/p>\n
Supersub Baylie Kelly delivered the night’s key point with a winner that clinched the fourth set 25-23 after Mikala Minton kept the point alive.<\/p>\n
Minton delivered fourth-set winners for point 22, 23 and 24 to set up Kelly’s heroics.<\/p>\n
The Panthers were inspired by rising star Jaya Stroup and Washburn commit Kya Behr, who set, spiked and dived for every ball she could find.<\/p>\n
Of course, court queen Stevie Mayers fought off adversity.<\/p>\n
Manhattan relied on a bevy of hard hitters Madison Stanard, Sophia Peabody, Ansley Becket along with setter Keeli Tope.<\/p>\n
“We started nervous and scared, but we turned that around,” Johnson said.<\/p>\n
Manhattan beat rival Washburn Rural for the first time in 16 years earlier this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BY JIM MISUNASjmisunas@gbtribune.com As comebacks go, Great Bend’s volleyball team achieved a rare feat rallying from a 2-set…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-342579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}