Game Details - Girls Volleyball

Green Canyon coach Madison Larsen wasn’t too worried when her team dropped the first set against Provo in the 4A quarterfinal on Monday. She felt her team committed an uncharacteristic amount of errors in that opening set, and even though they made it close with a late push, the hole was too big. Just as Larsen expected, the third-seed Wolves found a groove the rest of the way, winning three straight tight sets to advance to Tuesday’s semifinals with the 24-26, 25-22, 25-22, 25-23 victory. “I was super proud of the resilience. I thought the first set we had a really bad start. We caught ourselves in a hole. They fought towards the end, but we were down too far to actually make the comeback,” said Larsen. “I just really liked the mindset that they came in with the rest of the sets, and just being ready to start strong and battle hard and respond better than we did.” Green Canyon advances to Tuesday’s semifinal against No. 2 seed Desert Hills with the victory. Junior outside hitter Avery Fauth came up big for Green Canyon with 20 kills and a .421 hitting percentage, with Kiera Birch adding 15 kills and a .481 hitting percentage. Audrey White chipped in with 17 kills. As a team, Green Canyon finished with 14 blocks. Larsen was proud of the way her players stayed poised in those tight, late-set moments after going down 1-0. “We’ve been focusing on that a lot and just focusing on this moment right here, doing a lot of mental training, and it was fun to see them just take a breath and be able to go execute and trust themselves and trust their teammates and take that point just for what it is,” said Larsen.