By John RittenhouseThe Adrian volleyball team played a pair of hard-fought five-game matches in Red Rock Conference play since last Thursday.The Dragons edged Mountain Lake-Butterfield-Odin in a five-game match played in Mountain Lake Thursday. Southwest Christian nipped the Dragons by the same score on Tuesday.Adrian, 3-6-2 overall, plays in Hills tonight and in Tyler Monday before hosting Westbrook-Walnut Grove Tuesday.SWC 3, Adrian 2Adrian came up on the short end of the final score during its second five-game match of the week against the E-Gals.SWC stunned the Dragons by posting 25-20 and 25-15 wins to open the match in Adrian, but the hosts battled back to knot the match at two games each before falling in the finale."We didn’t play well in the first two games," admitted AHS coach Jessica Hogan. "Then we woke up from our slumber and made a match out of it."The Dragons shocked the Eagles in Game 3 by turning a 20-19 deficit into a 25-21 win by outscoring SWC 6-1 late in the game.Game 4 was tight the entire way with AHS pulling out a 25-23 victory.SWC opened an 11-7 lead in the fifth game and settled the issue by topping the Dragons 15-11.Amber Loosbrock and Brittany Bullerman served nine points each for the Dragons. Jessica Parsley charted 11 kills and eight blocks. Kayla Bullerman distributed 24 set assists to the Adrian hitters.Adrian 3, ML-B-O 2The Dragons won their second straight conference match when they outlasted the Wolverines in Mountain Lake Thursday.Trailing 2-1 after ML-B-O took Game 3 by a 25-15 tally, the Dragons needed a rally to come out on top. AHS met the challenge by securing 25-20 and 15-11 victories in Games 4 and 5 to win the five-game match."Our play in the third game wasn’t up to our standard, but we fought back to win the last two games," said AHS coach Hogan. "We found a way to win and that’s huge for us."In a tightly-contested first game, Adrian sported a 24-23 edge before ML-B-O bounced back to pull out a 27-25 win.Adrian evened the match at one game each with a 25-13 win in Game 2, and the teams split the next two contests, setting up a decisive fifth game. The Dragons scored the first four points of finale and went on to win by four.Parsley paced AHS at the net with 12 kills and 12 blocks. Brittany Bullerman added 14 kills to the cause, while Amanda Lynn chipped in nine digs.Loosbrock completed all 22 of her serves and recorded 15 points in the match. Kayla Bullerman, who led the Dragons with 21 set assists, went 18 of 18 serving with nine points.