Same result — a 3-1 win — with a different feeling.
Emporia State brought the focus on Saturday against Northwest Missouri that it was missing in part of Friday night’s home-opener win over Missouri Western. So even though the Hornets again dropped a set — something they really don’t like to do — the mood was much better following their 25-18 fourth-set win over the scrappy Bearcats on Saturday at White Auditorium than it had been after Friday’s win.
The anger the Hornets’ normally even-keeled coach, Bing Xu, displayed after the Hornets lost their third set Friday had spurred a players’ meeting before the Hornets left White.
“And today, when they came up, you could tell that everything was different, the intensity and the mentality and how focused they are for this game,” Xu said.
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