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No. 2 Olympus had to crawl its way to a 23-25, 25-18, 20-25, 25-19, 16-14 win over No. 10 Skyline in the second round of the 5A tournament. The Titans led 14-11 in the final set, but the Eagles fought back to a 14-14 tie. "There's always a little bit of anxiety in sets like that, but I think we just trusted what got us here," said Olympus head coach Brett Peterson. "We trusted the defense and trusted that we could finish it out. We've got a lot of confidence in our guys ant they've put in a lot of work to earn it." After the tie, Olympus quickly answered back with a two point run, with Yuse Jones getting the final kill for the 16-14 fifth set win. Jones ended the game with 15 kills. "It really can't be understated how important it is to go fight for a win at state and know what it takes to win at state. The hope is that we can then go in and take that fire to any team we play and do exactly what we just did." Titans' Reef Smylie led the defense with eight blocks while also dishing out five aces. Olympus senior Miles Burningham had 16 kills while Soren Jepsen also had 12 kills and two blocks in the win. Peterson said while the offense has been good, it was the defense that saved his team today. "The offense was good and has been good all season," Peterson said. "Today, I think it was our defense that got us through that match. It's a new thing for us in some ways to rely on our defense to go get balls up and turn digs into offense, and I thought they were great at that in that match."