204 girls golden at 18U provincials
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This article was published 06/05/2024 (696 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Izzy Voth may be sick but she’s not sick of winning.
The six-foot setter was named MVP after she led 204 Volleyball Club to the 18U girls’ provincial title at the Healthy Living Centre on Sunday, beating Cobras Volleyball Club 25-23, 25-22 in the final.
Between last year’s club provincials in the same gym and the high school AAAA title she claimed with the Steinbach Sabres last fall, it’s her third gold medal in just over a year.
“It was honestly just crazy. My team gets so fired up, we play well as a team so it’s super awesome. We had so much fun this tournament, I think that made the biggest difference for us,” Voth said with a faint, raspy voice as she battled a cold all weekend.
“When you’re playing as a team, you work well together and it takes everybody on the court for the volleyball game to happen. It’s not just one person, it’s everybody.”
Voth was ranked No. 2 in the Winnipeg Free Press coaches poll in November, behind only her school and club teammate Sienna Driedger, a Trinity Western Spartans commit who was named a tournament all-star. No. 3 was 204 right side Megan Carpenter — 204’s other all-star — with their middle blocker Reegan Aitken right behind at No. 4.
They entered provincials as the second-ranked team behind Cobras but didn’t look like the underdog, leading most of both sets and coming up with big kills when it mattered most.
“Communication was super, super important for us,” said Voth, who will set for the Winnipeg Wesmen in Canada West next year.
“The whole momentum and whole morale of the game, we were having so much fun … we love to communicate, we love to run our plays, run our offence and it just gets everybody moving.”
It was an all-Winnipeg final four, with Winman defeating Bandits in the bronze-medal match.
Anika Boys and Angelle Turenne received all-star awards for Cobras, while Winman’s Mia Dasch and Bandits Leah Bunio rounded out the all-star team.
That Bandits team ousted Brandon Volleyball Club with a 17-15 third set. BVC bounced back to defeat the Parkland Vipers 2-1, then edged Winnipeg Strike 16-14 in the third for fifth place.
The Vipers claimed seventh place, and Westman Volleyball Club avoided last with a sweep of Blazers in the 11th-place match.
BISONS SHOCKED
Shock Volleyball Club upset the top-ranked Junior Bisons 2-0 in the 17U girls’ final in Niverville.
The Junior Pilots downed Club West Rage 2-0 in the bronze-medal match.
In 18U boys’ action, Junior Bisons defeated Winman for gold. Westman Wave dropped BVC in the fifth-place match.
The 13U Westman Wave girls finished fourth in their provincials, losing 2-0 to Junior Bisons Brown in the bronze-medal clash.
Next weekend, 16U girls and 17U boys are in Winnipeg while the 16U boys are in Niverville.
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