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The Sunnyslope Vikings Girls Volleyball team completed its first undefeated regular season by downing the Falcons from Cactus Shadows 25-18, 26-24, 25-18 in the regular season finale. With this win, this insures that the Vikings are the Wells Fargo division II region champions and the number one seed going into the region tournament. As the number one seed, the top ranked 4A-II Vikings have a bye all the way to the region finals which will be played at Sunnyslope this Thursday starting at 6:00 pm. The region tournament is strictly for seeding purposes going into the state tournament which starts November 7th at Sunnyslope. You can check the state seeding brackets by going to http://www.aiaonline.org. 

The Sunnyslope Vikings volleyball team competed in the Millennium Tigers Volleyball Tournament last Saturday coming home with the championship after defeating a fine Parker High team 2 games to 1. 27-29, 25-23, 15-10

The Lady Vikings scrapped all tournament long to win games. Opposing teams were aiming for them and played their ‘A’ game every match. At the end of the day the Vikings and didn’t lose a match on there way to the tournament championship. They finished “A” pool play with a 4 – 0 record to gain the number 1 seed going unto bracket play. Having to play the number two seed, Northwest Valley Christian, the Vikings had to go to 3 games in the best two out of three format. Sunnyslope won 26 – 24, 24 – 26, 15 -13.
In the championship match against Parker, who defeated Tucson Buena High in the semis, the Vikings fell behind early, but the steady play co-captains Katie Meyers and Emma Ridley helped bring Sunnyslope back to tie the score. Parker eventually prevailed in overtime but this led to the Vikings digging deep to come from behind again to win the second game. In the third game of the championship match Sunnyslope decided enough is enough. Strong defense by Sarah Johnson, Laurann Durbin and Cassandra Burruel, plus the hitting of all-tournament selection Ridley led to the Vikings taking an early lead. Meyers’ serving then put Parker away.
This is the third tournament win this year, tying the 2005 squad for most regular season tourney wins.