Senior boys and girls public high school volleyball playoffs run this week at Eric Hamber and Kitsilano schools with the final games set for 6 p.m. Thursday. The championship title is on the line.
麻豆传媒映画Technical will defend their senior boys win from 2010 while last year's victors for the girls draw, Gladstone, didn't advance to the playoffs.
Senior girls
Vancouver's two undefeated high school girls volleyball teams rolled through the quarter-finals of the city championships Monday night at Kitsilano. Point Grey, which topped all West Side schools, defeated Templeton 3-0. David Thompson, the leading team on the East Side, overcame a late-game surge from Eric Hamber to win 3-1.
"They pulled it out," said Thompsons assistant coach Johnson Yu. "We played strong early. We let up a little bit but we came back strong. We were a little shaky in the middle, but Lisa [Cheung] really pulled it our for us in the end."
Outside power hitter Cheung ended the night with 15 kills, including five in the fourth game, to push her team to a 25-17 win and prevent a fifth game against the determined Hamber side.
In the losing effort, middle hitter Acacia Cresswell led her team with nine spikes.
Hamber's head coach Graham Dunne said his team will have to play stronger earlier if they're going to advance to the zone tournament.
"I'm happy with the way they played the third and fourth games, it was fantastic," he said, but likened the low-energy start to the city's NHL hockey team. "We've got to be ready from the get-go, from start to finish. It was one of those Canucks kind of things-they weren't ready to go in the first period and then they had to climb over a wall."
Killarney iced Prince of Wales 3-0 and Kitsilano dropped one game to 麻豆传媒映画Technical but pulled out a 3-1 win.
In Tuesday's two semi-final games, Kitsilano hosts David Thompson at 4 p.m. Point Grey meets Killarney at 6 p.m. All games are played at Kitsilano secondary.
Senior boys
In the senior boys volleyball championship quarter-finals Monday night at Eric Hamber secondary, David Thompson (7-3) pushed Magee (8-2) to five games to claim the 3-2 win.
Killarney beat Charles Tupper in straight games. Eric Hamber also rolled Britannia 3-0 as did 麻豆传媒映画Technical, who defeated Windermere 3-0.
Quarter-finals continue tonight with Van Tech meeting Killarney at 4 p.m. and David Thompson challenging Eric Hamber at 6 p.m.
All senior boys games are at Eric Hamber secondary.
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