The Spanish Springs volleyball team's service woes gave Wooster enough points to account for an entire game's worth of points and it was just too much for the young Cougars to overcome.

In a non-league match that ended three hours after it was scheduled to start, fans of the Purple and Teal left Wooster unhappy after watching their team fall 29-27, 13-25, 23-25, 25-22, 17-15 Thursday night.

"Wow, that was painful. Anyone who had to sit through that I feel bad for," SSHS volleyball coach Frank Sandomenico said.

After dropping an extended first game, Spanish Springs came out and dominated the second game after starting slow.

The Cougars rallied for 10 points in a row to take a 16-10 lead and never looked back. Callie Aberle recorded four straight aces and Emily Meister capped an 8-0 run to end Game 2. Meister had nine kills in the match.

Despite winning Game 3, the Cougs never had momentum in the game. The Colts owned the lead the entire game until the visitors stole the edge for the first time at 23-22 and took the 2 games to 1 advantage.

Still, Wooster would not quit and would not relinquish the Game 4 lead, going wire-to-wire to send it to a decisive fifth game.

Already with 21 service errors, Spanish Springs fans hoped the Cougars would turn it around in Game 5 and it looked promising at first when Stacey Witt opened the game with one of her team's 19 aces.

But the euphoria wore off quickly as she followed up her ace with another missed serve, tying the score at 1-1.

"We served real well in the tournament last weekend, but tonight we were bad," Sandomenico said. "We talked and told them if we had just made our serves, we would have won. But that's not going to make us a great team. We need to be aggressive and jump serve. We just didn't have it tonight, but we're not playing for the short term. We're playing for the long term."

The Cougars' last lead came at 5-4 and the Colts began distancing themselves.

After watching Wooster take a game-high 13-9 edge, Sandomenico called a timeout to help his team regroup. It worked.

The Colts began returning the favor, first with a serve into the net and then a double contact. Spanish Springs closed to within 13-12 when Meister picked up an ace on a little floating serve that should have been handled, forcing a Colts timeout.

Wooster stopped the bleeding thanks to a SSHS spikers serve into the net after the timeout, but the Cougars staved off a pair of game points to tie it at 14-14.

Tied at 15-15, Becky Schomberg and Emily Rasmussen knocked down back-to-back kills to win the game for the Reno school.

Aberle turned in a strong all-around performance, leading the team with 12 kills, 13 digs and seven aces. Witt had a team-high 26 assists, while Lyndsey Anderson added 15 in the losing cause. Julianna Waller added eight kills for the Cougars, who are now 4-4 on the young season.