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In volleyball, you hope to win in three games, but four works okay too.
That's the way Iowa-Grant coach Marla Simon felt after her team won a SWAL match with Mineral Point.
They easily won games one and two 25-15 and 25-18.
Then the Pointers found themselves in the third game, winning 25-16.
The fourth one went back and forth before Panther coach Simon called timeout and told her team she didn't think they wanted to go five games - they should end it here.
End it they did by the slimmest of margins in overtime at 27-25.
"Mineral Point struggled and made quite a few errors in the first two game," Simon pointed out. "We were able to put the ball away pretty easy."
She said that Kaci Myers had seven kills in the first two sets.
"We came out in the third game and did not pass well and quit communicating," Simon said.
"Then in game four I told the girls to step it up as I wasn't sure we wanted to go five," the coach concluded.
On the night Myers led in blocks with two and added eight kills.
Ashley Liddicoat was the kill leader at 11 and Kristin Bingham served three aces and came up with 19 assists.
Taylor Jackson had 19 digs.
The Pointers were led by Sydney Staver's 11 kills and she had one block.
Jordyn Phillips added six kills and served six aces.
Halie Schmitz had a block and served four aces.
Rachel McCoy came up with 18 assists with Sydney Staver adding seven.
Clare Chambers, Sadie Pethel and Natalie Chubb both had a block kill and Paula Pittz dug out 15 balls.
The two teams played heir annual "Pink" night game for cancer awareness.
The Panthers improved to 3-4 in conference play and are 12-10 overall.
They go to pesky Riverdale Thursday and to Fennimore Tuesday.
"We started slow in the first game, but turned things around in game three," said Pointer coach Tom Ingwell.
"We let game four slip away, and I feel if we could have forced a game five,we would have won the match," he pointed out.
"We tried some different things in game one, which I think threw us off guard a bit," he added.
He mentioned that he felt "Sydney Staver played very well and was a steady hitter. Paula Pittz was again consistent. Sadie Pethel stepped up her hitting tonight and Jordyn Phillips swung well from the outside."
"We just had too many errors at critical times. We put ourselves in positions to win, but we need to finish," he concluded.
It's homecoming week for the Pointers and they are off until Tuesday when they travel to face a tough Cuba City team.