Volleyball falls to eventual champion in 1st round to end 8th in state

5th place is the best a team can hope for after losing in the first round of the 1A state volleyball tournament. Unfortunately, the first round saw the Lakeside Lady Eagles paired with the eventual state champions King's team, which swept everyone 3-0 up to the championship game, where it defeated Caribou Trail League member Chelan 3-1 for their 1 and 2 finishes. Chelan had also swept its first 3 opponents 3-0.

Lakeside swept Granger and Connell 3-0 in its next two games to get into the fight for 5th, but fell to Annie Wright 3-2 after a 13-15 heartbreaking tie-breaker loss to end the 2009 state tournament in 8th place. The Lady Eagles dominated AW in the first two games 25-19 and 25-10, but lost a very tough game 26-24, ran out of gas to lose the next game 25-13 to tie the match score at 2-2, re-grouped to fight hard but could not pull out the win in the first to 15 tie-breaker.
Freeman ended its state run in 7th place after beating Royal 3-0 in the first round, but falling to Montesano in the second.

Despite the disappointing placing, it really was a great state run with some very impressive wins along the way.