Game Details - Girls Volleyball

No. 3 Woods Cross had a strong day one of the 5A state tournament, finishing with a 3-0 sweep of the defending 5A champion Maple Mountain. The Wildcats won in straight sets 25-11, 25-22, 25-18. Woods Cross' outside hitter Avery Poulton led the offense with 19 kills on a .516 hitting percentage. Brylee Howard also tallied 10 kills and Alisi Tapa'atoutai added eight. Wildcats' sophomore setter Zamari Christensen kept the offense together with 35 assists. The Wildcats' defense in the quarterfinal was shored up by Adia Cook's 15 digs. "We played Maple Mountain in preseason this year and we went to four sets with them and we came out with the win," said Woods Cross head coach Josey Hilton. "We were watching them before the match and thinking they'd really improved since we had played them, so we really had to up our game, really focus on service recieve, have aggressive serves and the girls really played well. I think we had a little chip on our shoulder because we lost to them in the semis last year, so we wanted to show that we're here and and we got something to prove." While advancing to the semifinals isn't anything new for Woods Cross, winning the semifinal is another story. The Wildcats have not won a state championship since 1979,. The last time they advanced to the state title game was 1994. Hilton is confident in her team's ability to end that 30-year drought. "I'm not going to discount who's playing and who we will meet, but we've done our homework on a couple of those teams that we feel like we're going to meet in the semifinals and we really just have to be on our A-game," Hilton said. "We have to limit our errors, aggressive serves, our passing has got to be on, and we just have to be aggressive from the get go on on our hitting."