Centennial rolled to a four-set home win over Arbor View in a girls volleyball match Thursday. Here are photos from the match.
Girls Volleyball
The top-seeded Trail Blazers will meet No. 2 Bishop Gorman for the Desert Region championship. It’s No. 1 Palo Verde vs. No. 3 Rancho for the Mountain League crown.
Amber Castro had 10 aces, eight assists, and eight digs for Eldorado’s girls volleyball team in a 25-21, 25-15, 25-19 at Valley on Friday night.
Shadow Ridge’s girls volleyball team dominated from the opening set Thursday en route to a 25-18, 25-14, 25-20 win at Silverado.
Sasha Bolla had 17 kills and three digs on Thursday as Coronado’s girls volleyball team rallied for a 25-16, 22-25, 23-25, 25-14, 15-8 home victory over Centennial.
Faith Gray-Williams had 29 assists and 22 digs on Friday to lead Sierra Vista past visiting Desert Oasis, 25-20, 17-25, 25-21, 26-24.
Senior Rachel Chambers had nine kills as visiting Shadow Ridge swept Coronado 25-20, 25-19, 25-20 to give the Cougars their first loss to an in-state opponent since Sept. 11, 2014.
Aria Holmes had 17 kills, and Shantalle Demirjian had 16 kills and 13 digs to lead the Sierra Vista’s girls volleyball team to a 25-11, 23-25, 25-12, 25-23 road victory over Basic on Wednesday.
The Coronado’s doubles pair of Mana Iritani and Sofia Potamitis went 3-0 in the Cougars’ 16-2 home victory against Green Valley.
The White Pine girls volleyball team was missing starting senior middle blocker Debra Kingston heading into the Division III Southern League semifinals.
Fortunately for the Bobcats, senior outside hitter Ashlyn Huntington was still in the starting lineup.
Coronado’s girls volleyball team wasn’t pleased with its energy level in its Sunrise Region semifinal sweep of Green Valley on Thursday.
The Cougars made sure they didn’t have the same issue Friday.
Whittnee Nihipali is only a sophomore.
But the Shadow Ridge outside hitter played like a veteran Friday.
Faith Lutheran setter Megan Kronschnabel already had been a part of two Division I-A Southern Region title-winning teams prior to Friday’s matchup with Sierra Vista.
The third one she got against the Mountain Lions meant more than the first two.
Kayla Coles had 11 kills and 16 digs, and Serenity Sivongsa added 20 assists and nine aces Wednesday to help Rancho’s girls volleyball team to a 25-20, 23-25, 25-13, 25-13 win over visiting Eldorado.
After winning last year’s Division I state title, Coronado’s girls volleyball team had three goals for this year — winning the Southeast League, winning the Sunrise Region title and repeating as state champions.
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