North Peace girls’ volleyball finish 13th at B.C. provincials

KELOWNA, B.C. — In their quest to improve on their sixth-place showing at provincials in 2024, the North Peace Secondary School (NPSS) senior girls’ volleyball team came up short.

The Grizzlies played the ‘AAAA’ Girls Volleyball Provincial Championship in Kelowna starting on Thursday, November 27th and going into the weekend.

However, playing in the 16-team tournament, they were slotted into pool ‘C’ against teams from Vancouver Island and the Lower Mainland in the round robin.

Although competitive, the Grizzlies dropped their first game to Nanaimo’s Dover Bay Secondary School in a three-set thriller by scores of 19-25, 25-16, 9-15 on November 27th.

After dropping their next two games to North Vancouver’s Handsworth Secondary School (20-25, 12-25) and Mission Secondary School (21-25, 22-25, 7-15), NPSS faced an uphill climb in the knockout rounds.

A subsequent three-set loss to Kelowna Secondary pushed the Grizzlies to the consolation round, where they were downed by Coquitlam’s École Dr. Charles Best Secondary School.

Down in the relegation round, the Grizzlies showed some life. They took down Langley’s R.E. Mountain Secondary School in three sets (21-25, 25-16, 24-22).

In the 13th-place match, they defeated Surrey’s Semiahmoo Secondary School two sets to none by scores of 25-15 and 26-24.

The tournament was won by Delta’s South Delta Secondary School, who outlasted Surrey’s Earl Marriott in the gold medal match, winning three sets to two (25-17, 24-26, 11-25, 25-17, 15-9).

The ‘AAAA’ Girls Volleyball Provincial Championship took place from Thursday, November 27th to Saturday, November 29th and was hosted by Okanagan Mission Secondary School and Canyon Falls Middle School in Kelowna.