A tense three-set triumph over Charles Hays secondary highlighted the Prince Charles Bulldogs’ trip to the Big Kahuna B.C. volleyball championships in the Lower Mainland last week, where Creston placed 15th out of 16 teams.
The Creston senior team posted the 25-19, 19-25, 16-14 victory over the counterpart from Prince Rupert on Day One of the four-day AA provincials, which ran from Dec. 2-5 at the Langley Events Centre.
It was one of three preliminary round matches for the Bulldogs, who were competitive in almost all sets of the six matches played during the week.
PCSS dropped two-set matches to Woodlands of Nanaimo (which won 26-24, 25-15) and Sa-Hali of Kamloops (25-20, 25-19) to close out the round-robin portion of the tournament.
The 1-2 match record positioned PCSS third coming out of Pool D, one of four, four-team groupings in the 16-team event.
That set up a championship draw meeting with Pacific Academy of Surrey, which placed second in Pool A. The Bulldogs battled hard in losing a best-of-five set match 25-17, 25-20, 25-11.
PCSS wrapped up the tournament with a pair of hotly contested 2-0 defeats on the consolation side of the draw, 25-23, 25-19 in a rematch with Woodlands, and 25-21, 25-23 to McRoberts of Richmond.
MEI of Abbotsford swept Langley Fundamental in the championship match.
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