Las Vegas Invitational Volleyball Tournament
Monday, September 1st, 2008|
Contribution by Andy Mitchell, Douglas
The 18th Annual Las Vegas High School Invitational Volleyball Tournament was held August 29 and 30. After coming in to the 40 team field seeded second, Douglas High School won the championship match, defeating 7th seeded Carson High, 25-19, 26-24. They remained undefeated for the tournament at 9-0 in matches, 20-2 in games.
Douglas, Carson, Damonte Ranch and Reed were the only teams from the North, but all of last year’s playoff teams from the south, Durango, Silverado and Centennial, were in the tournament.
On Friday the top 2 finishers in each pool qualified for the Championship Division of 20 teams, and the bottom 2 dropped to the Consolation Division of the bottom 20 teams. Douglas, Carson and Damonte all went 3-0 to win their pools and qualify for the Championship Division. Reed went 1-2 to finish 3rd and drop to the Consolation Division.
On Saturday morning, Douglas and Carson went 3-0 to win their pools. Damonte went 2-1 but won a 3-way tiebreaker to also win their pool. So, 3 of the teams from the north won 3 of the 5 Championship pools, moving on to bracket play of the top 10 teams, called the Gold Division.
Reed, played at Green Valley High School on Saturday, going 2-1 to come in 2nd place in their pool. They moved on to the Bronze Division of the 21st to 30th teams. In the bracket play they won 3 games, and then lost in the championship match to finish 22nd. (the paper reported them playing in the “championship match”, but it was for the bottom half of the teams, not the actual tournament championship).
Douglas’ undefeated results:
Douglas def Chaparral 25-12, 25-11
Douglas def Cimarron-Memorial 25-9, 25-10
Douglas def Chatsworth (CA) 25-15, 25-23 (1st place in pool - to Championship Division)
Saturday:
Douglas def Sylmar (CA) 25-9, 25-10
Douglas def Bountiful (UT) 25-13, 22-25, 15-6
Douglas def Bishop Gorman 17-25, 25-21, 15-7 (1st place in Championship pool - to Gold Division)
Douglas def Palo Verde 25-18, 25-22 (quarterfinals)
Douglas def Skyline (UT) 25-14, 25-19 (semis)
Championship - Douglas def Carson 25-19, 26-24. Douglas won tournament.
Tournament MVP - Megan Mitchell (Douglas). All-tournament team - Mysta Townsell (Douglas), Jessica Waggoner (Douglas), Danae Eckart (Carson), Blaike King (Carson)
Records: Douglas 9-0, Carson 8-1, Damonte Ranch 5-2, Reed 6-4
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