4/14/2021
(Sammamish, WA) The Metro League’s Volleyball Tournament began on Wednesday night and will culminate on Saturday. ESN covered the top 4 seeds in the Sound division. We have game re-caps of those games and video highlights below.
Mountain Division
Lakeside 3, Seattle Prep 1
Bishop Blanchet 3, Lincoln (Sea) 0
Roosevelt 3, Nathan Hale 0
Ingraham 3, Ballard 0
Sound Division
Eastside Catholic 3, Garfield 0
West Seattle 3, Holy Names 1
Rainier Beach 3, Cleveland 2
Franklin 3, Chief Sealth 1
Saturday’s Match-Ups
Eastside Catholic vs Lakeside 6:30 @ Lakeside HS
Garfield vs Seattle Prep 4pm @ Lakeside HS
Bishop Blanchet vs Franklin 6:30 @ Franklin HS
Cleveland vs Ballard 4pm @ Franklin HS
Roosevelt vs West Seattle 6:30 @ Chief Sealth HS
Lincoln (Sea) vs Chief Sealth 4pm @ Chief Sealth HS
Holy Names Academy vs Nathan Hale 6:30 @ Nathan Hale HS
Ingraham vs Rainier Beach 4pm @ Nathan Hale HS
Wednesday Re-Caps
West Seattle 3, Holy Names 1
The Wildcats stormed out to a 2-0 set lead and looked poised to put the match away in a straight sweep. However, with the third set even at 13, an injury occurred that took a significant amount of time. Once play resumed the Cougars were on fire and were able to get the set win and force a 4th.
West Seattle did not allow for a 5th though, as they played solid to put the match away and get the playoff win. Dylan Turner was our player of the match.
(Video Highlights Below)
Eastside Catholic 3, Garfield 0
This match was all Crusaders as they swept the Bulldogs 3-0. Garfield battled hard in the first set and pushed the Crusaders to dig down to come up with the opening win 25-20. That set proved to be a warm-up for the Crusaders who were determined to make sure the Bulldogs would not get that close again to handing EC their first set loss of the season.
Eastside Catholic went on to dominate with a 25-12 second set win and they finished it off with an explosive 25-9 finale. The Crusaders will battle Lakeside for the Metro Championship and heads into that match winning 24 straight sets and no losses. Lakeside is also undefeated and has lost only 2 sets on the season.
Bella Meyers was dominant at the net racking up a game high and kills along with getting our player of the match. The Crusaders got solid efforts from Clare Donovan, Riley Westby and Kaitlyn Westby. For Garfield the Libero Phoebe Frank played well and was our Bulldog player of the game.
Video Highlights (Brandon Brown)
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