| Summit
takes 3rd at Grangeville Tournament
Summit’s Lady Patriots wound up tying for third at the Grangeville Tournament then completed a season sweep of Highland 25-10, 25-9, 25-22 on Monday, Sept. 18 at Craigmont. That put them third in their pool and put them up against Logos, who had taken second in the other pool, in the quarterfinals. Summit knocked off the Knights 25-23, 25-22 to advance to the semifinals where they played Prairie again. They lost to Prairie 18-25, 21-25 to wind up tied with host Grangeville for third place at the tournament. 
From there the two teams battled back and forth until Kamiah mounted a late rally that got them within into a tie at 23-23. At that point Kayla Rehder scored a kill to get to game point and with Erin Chmelik serving, Kamiah made a hitting error to end the game. Summit then dominated the second game. Stubbers served an ace and Claira Osborne scored a pair of kills to make it 8-3. Kamiah got within 11-8 before Lustig scored a kill to send Claira Osborne to the service line. She had 5 aces and Lustig added a kill as Summit took an 18-8 lead. After a pair of sideouts, Currier served out the match. She had 3 aces while Stubbers won a couple of jousts at the net and Lustig scored the match winning kill. Claira then served Summit into the lead with an ace followed by a kill by Lustig. The rest of the game was played very close with the lead changing hands a couple times. Finally, down 21-22, Claira Osborne scored a sideout kill and went back to serve. Lustig scored 2 kills to get to game point and Stubbers scored the game-winning kill. A kill by Stubbers and 2 aces by Currier gave Summit a 3-0 lead in the second game but then Nezperce rallied. The Indians took the lead for good at 8-9 and pulled away for an 8-point win. Nezperce then took a 3-7 lead in the third game and held the lead until bricking a serve to make it 7-10. Claira Osborne then served 2 aces, Hailey Stubbers scored a kill to tie it and another ace gave Summit an 11-10 lead. After Nezperce tied it, a kill by Stubbers gave Summit back the lead. That was it though as Nezperce outscored them 1-4 to take the game and the match. After that loss Summit wound up in third place in their pool. In the opening game Summit jumped out to a 5-1 lead with Stubbers scoring 3 kills, Chmelik 1 kill and Lustig an ace. Logos came back and eventually led 8-13. Summit got back within 1 at 14-15 after 3 straight aces by Currier. After a trade of sideouts, Lustig served Summit back into the lead with 2 aces plus a kill by Stubbers. Summit never relinquished that lead as they were able tosideout most of the Knights serves. Stubbers wound up scoring the game-winning point by winning a joust at the net. The second game saw Summit trail at 7-9 but took the lead on a tip by Clair Osborne followed by a kill by Lustig and 2 aces by Chmelik. Logos tied it at 12 and again at 13 and finally at 22 but could never retake the lead. Claira Osborne won a joust at the net to give Summit the lead for good and Stubbers followed with a pair of kills to end the match and clinch a share of third place for the Patriots. Summit won in 3 games: 25-9, 25-9, 25-22. Setters Lucy Osborne and Lexi Currier did an excellent job executing the new 6-2. The whole team had a great night serving—Taylor Lustig served 10 in a row in the first game. Kayla Rehder, Lexi, and Claira Osborne were also flawless with their serving. Two JV games were also played, Summit won both, 25-7, 25-13 Summit is now 4-3 in league play and 6-7 overall counting their 2-3 match record at the Grangeville Tournament.
29-Highland*, here, won 3 games to 0 31-Deary*, here, won 3 games to 0 7-at Logos*, lost 2 games to 3 9-at Salmon River, 9 a.m. PDT, lost 0 games to 3 11-at Kendrick*, lost 0 games to 3 16-at Grangeville Tournament, beat Kamiah 2-0, lost to Nezperce 1-2, lost to Prairie 0-2, beat Logos 2-0, lost to Prairie 0-2, 3rd place at Tournament 18-at Highland*, won 3 games to 0 21-Timberline*, here 25-at Grangeville 26-Nezperce*, here 28-at Salmon River, 5 p.m. PDT 5-at Timberline* 10-Kendrick*, here 10/14-10/19-District at LCSC 10/27-10/28-State at Lewiston High School *League games All home games are at Prairie Auxiliary Gym |
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