Box Score 1 | Box Score 2 HELENA, Mont. --- For back-to-back weekends, the No. 8 Biola volleyball team finished a four-match tournament with a 3-1 record after Saturday's split in Montana.
 
The Eagles had the pleasure of squaring off against a very confident, and very talented Rocky Mountain (Mont.) team in the morning match.
 
The No. 17 Battlin' Bears just spent all day on Friday dethroning NAIA No. 1 Texas-Brownsville and No. 2 Concordia-Irvine, so the No. 8 Eagles had their hands full for sure..
 
Biola had a fantastic second set, but dropped sets one, three and four (20-25, 25-18, 20-25, 18-25) en route to its third loss of the young season, continuing No. 17 Rocky's string of surprise upsets.

"They were sharp. They were very, very sharp," said Head Coach Aaron Seltzer about Rocky Mountain.
 
Rocky Mountain used 15 blocks to keep Biola's attack from building into any type of rhythm throughout the match. This, along with the Battlin' Bears' ability to dig up a majority of the Eagles' 150 attack attempts, helped keep Biola from picking up the critical points it needed to get ahead of Rocky.
 
Biola still earned more of its points than the Battlin' Bears did, but the combination of 32 attacking errors, six service errors, eight setting errors and the plethora of blocks on the other side of the net led to a third straight huge victory for Rocky Mountain.
 
Alyssa Mason, Joclyn Kirton and Lauren Hoenecke were the three Eagles to get to double-digit kills, with Hoenecke standing out with an exceptional match. The junior notched 11 kills without a single error in her 20 attack attempts.
 
This loss left Biola with a 9-3 record headed into its nightcap and final match of this Big Sky Tournament.
 
The nightcap went a little more to script for Biola, as it swept through Montana Tech in a quick three-set match (25-17, 25-18, 25-22).
 
The Eagles and Orediggers matched up together very closely, with both teams featuring strong, precise attacking. There was one glaring difference between the two sides, and that was the Eagles' ability to get the ball over the net on the serve. Biola earned four service aces with just three errors, while the Orediggers hit 11 balls into the net without getting a single ace.

"Montana Tech was a very good team too," said Seltzer. "They put out a solid defensive effort."
 
Amy Weststeyn had a return to form in this match, garnering 10 kills and hitting above .600. This was a stark contrast to her performance in the morning contest, but the performance at night was proof that early match was definitely a statistical anomaly for the Eagles' starting middle.
 
Biola's attacking core as a whole was back to form in the nightcap, as the team hit over .300 in both of the first two sets. This was just the second and third times this tournament the team hit over .300 in a set.
 
This change was surely aided by a much stronger setting performance from Ashton Arbuthnot and Allison Spencer. The pair combined for eight setting errors against Rocky Mountain, but they fixed everything in the late match, combining for 33 assists and just one setting error.
 
Mason had another strong performance, raking in 10 kills and a block. She had a strong showing throughout the tournament, garnering 37 kills and hitting around .300.
 
Biola improves to 10-3 following the win and is done with its preseason slate for 2014. The Eagles face No. 22 Vanguard in their Golden State Athletic Conference-opener on Tuesday at 7 p.m.