MADDOCK — New Rockford-Sheyenne trailed 2-1 against the No. 4 team in the state.

The Rockets had been outscored by 20 collective points.

“You could see the girls getting down,” NR-S head coach Sara Myhre said. “And we just kept fighting back.”

Benson County had only lost one match this year — at the hands of defending state champion Langdon Area/Munich. NR-S blew out the Wildcats in the fourth set, then rolled all the way through the tie-breaking fifth set to secure an upset victory at Maddock Public School on Tuesday.

“We just didn’t find our groove and our sync. Everything was just out of whack,” Benson County head coach Sheri Stuberg said. “We just never found our hitting sync.”

The Rockets (21-9, 6-1) clinched the No. 2 seed in District 4 in a five-set thriller over Benson County

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