May 16, 2024 @ 6:30 PM | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Games |
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Lone Peak Knights (24-7) | 25 | 15 | 25 | 25 | 3 |
vs Mountain Ridge Sentinels (23-7) | 19 | 25 | 23 | 22 | 1 |
In its opening set of the day in the second round, No. 5 Lone Peak lost 18-25 to Farmington. After that opening set Lone Peak won six sets while only losing one which included a 3-1 win over No. 4 Mountain Ridge in the 6A quarterfinals. "First set of the day there's nerves, there's big lights, it's a big gym and I just think it was nerves at first," said Lone Peak head coach Cecil Read. "After that opening set the jitters were gone and we started running Lone Peak volleyball. We played really good, and when we were good we were great, but when we were off a little bit teams took advantage." The Knights had even attacks with Cade Dalley recording 10 kills, Brady Holt and Ethan Wright with nine, and Freddy Dayton with eight. It was an emotional win for Lone Peak, who advanced to Saturday's 6A semifinal. "That team ran in first all year and we never got to play them." Read said. "We knew they were great but we never saw them play so it was a little bit of the unknown. There's kids on (Mountain Ridge) that I coached when they were nine and ten years old. So, you know how good they are because they've been playing this game for a long time. We just wanted to play Lone Peak volleyball and we knew if we did that we're really hard to deal with."