Game Details - Girls Volleyball

The day started rocky for No. 5 Pleasant Grove, but it ended on fire as it earned a 3-0 win over No. 4 Maple Mountain and advanced to the 5A semifinals. Its first set of the day against Wasatch was shaky. The Vikings still pulled out a 30-28 victory, but they didn't play up to thier standards. But once Pleasant Grove got past the state tournament nerves, it was firing on all fronts. "You have the nerves because this is what they work for all year, and what the seniors work for the whole three or four years," said Pleasant Grove head coach Isa Takahashi. "It's big, it means something, and so just getting here is exciting. It's fun. We're not going to play perfect and I don't expect them to play perfect, but I do expect them to play consistently and have that effort." The Vikings had a balanced attack with Lexi Brown leading the way with 13 kills. Marli Vaea wasn't far behind with 12 kills. Molly Mitchell and Taytum Nelson added nine and eight kills respectfully. It wasn't just the kills, but how effeciently Pleasant Grove got them that was key in the dominant win over the Golden Eagles. Vaea hit .550, Mitchell 0.615 and Nelson .700. While the Vikings won both regular season matchups, both were much closer. The quarterfinal win over its Region 7 rival was by far the most dominant. "Maple Mountain's a really, really good team,"Takahashi said. "The way that we were winning was surprising because we went to five with them at the beginning of the year and then we barely won in four, but my girls are ready. It was a surprise that we executed at such a high level, but I'm proud of my kids because they did their job."