Veritas' Emily Zimmerman, center, spikes the ball against Kansas City North. Veritas won all three of its matches at its quadrangular Tuesday at Veritas.

Veritas Christian volleyball coach Kyle Billings saved some money Tuesday after his players weren’t able to hold up their end of a deal.

Billings told his players that he’d buy them ice cream if they didn’t make any service errors in their final game of a home quadrangular at East Lawrence Athletic Center.

They had two.

“Billings suggested it and said ‘We’ll pay’ and coach (Meghan) Graham said, ‘No, we’re not paying,'” senior Adrian Willems said. “So we decided we’re still going even though we missed those serves.”

The ice cream will be the cherry on top of their victories over Kansas City North 2-0 (25-11, 25-10), Omaha Warriors 2-1 (25-20, 18-25, 25-16) and Heritage Christian 2-0 (25-15, 25-13).

“I gave them a challenge in serving because they had a rough night serving, and they didn’t step up to the challenge,” Billings said. “Free ice cream? No. But they still played real well and came out with three good victories.

“I also challenged the defense to keep our servers serving because when we serve one and we lose the point we can’t get anywhere.”

It’s difficult to be upset about two errors in one game, when the Eagles had a total of 37 service aces in their seven games. Veritas was led by senior Kristie Tiegreen’s 12 aces and Willems’ eight.

Veritas complemented the aces with strong play at the net. the Eagles’ attack ended up with 55 kills.

Willems accounted for the team’s 46 assists because of a change in formation.

After dropping three matches last weekend, Billings decided to implement a 5-1 formation.

“It put one person as a strong blocker and took one weak blocker away from a position. It also gave us an extra strong defensive player in the back row, and those are two key points that we got burned on last week,” Billings said. “So we decided we needed to make the switch to overcome those two. The girls are smart enough that they moved into it pretty easily. A couple of them were out of position here and there, but they’re smart enough that they really made the transition well.”

Senior Becky Woods took advantage of the change in pace by collecting 11 kills to go along with her five aces.

The new formation also allowed Tiegreen to focus in on the kills rather than setting up teammates.

“It’s kind of different for me because I haven’t played just hitter for a while,” said Tiegreen, who had a team-high 19 kills to go with four blocks. “I like playing defense in the back row, but it’s different. But I think it’s flowing pretty good.”

While the Eagles got the usual output from their three seniors, Billings and the upperclassmen were most impressed with sophomore Emily Zimmerman.

Zimmerman, in her first year playing for Billings, collected 18 kills to go with five aces.

“The seniors, I support them 100 percent. They’re amazing players, and I just try to do what they do because they’re amazing,” Zimmerman said. “They’re like the best hitters, the best everything, and I just step in when I can.”