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CHAMPIONS – Sophie Janke (9) and the F.H. Warriors celebrate after winning the Supervolley title last Friday against the Porter Creek Rams in extra sets.

Lady Warriors fight to Supervolley title

The F.H. Warriors senior girls volleyball team kept the crowd engaged at the Supervolley finals Friday night.

By Marissa Tiel on November 7, 2016

The F.H. Warriors senior girls volleyball team kept the crowd engaged at the Supervolley finals Friday night.

The visiting team took out the Porter Creek Rams in five sets to take their first Supervolley title in recent memory.

“Feels good. I think it’s the first time I’ve ever been in the Supervolley finals, let alone win,” said coach Adam Robinson. “Feels good. Feels nice. The girls are pretty happy.”

The Warriors won the first set 25-23, before dropping the next two 25-21 and 25-17.

“The girls just stopped communicating, stopped celebrating,” said Robinson. “In volleyball, when you’re not communicating, it’s hard to do everything right. When you’re not celebrating the little victories, it just makes it that much harder.

“They didn’t start communicating until halfway through the fourth set and that’s when we started to play better.”

Their win in the fourth set forced the game into an extra set, which they won narrowly by three points.

“It feels so good,” said tournament MVP Katelyn Holway of the Warriors. “We worked really hard for this win.”

The Warriors struggled with errors, as they gave point after point to the Rams in a musical chairs rotation problem.

“We weren’t really sure how to fix it, so that really set us back,” said Holway.

But the Warriors prevailed, working together as a team.

“You just really want to keep your momentum up,” said Holway. “You want to just be excited, loud and try to dominate over the other team.”

Rams coach Kim Hickman said small errors cost her team the win.

“It’s always a battle with F.H. and it really just came down to a couple small errors by our team and that was the difference in the game,” she said.

But she said it was the best she’s seen the Rams play all season.

“No coach wants to lose, but if you do lose, then that’s the way you want to lose,” she said.

The Rams and Warriors are likely to meet next at the Yukon Championships Nov. 24-26.

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