R.D. Parker Collegiate's senior girls volleyball team was one point from the title as hosts of a pre-zone tournament Sept. 26-27, but they couldn't bury the Hapnot Collegiate Institute Kopper Kweens from Flin Flon who scored four straight points to come from two points down to the win the tiebreaker of the final 16-14.
The RDPC Trojans led 7-2 early in the tiebreaker but the Kweens stormed back with five straight points to tie. The Trojans regained the advantage and were serving to win the tournament but couldn't grab the final point.
RDPC led the second set of the match from start to finish and took it by a score of 25-11. The first set saw the Trojans battle back from behind to tie the score on several occasions, including at 24-24 before Hapnot got two straight points to go up 1-0.
RDPC's girls' team was 4-2 in the round robin to finish second to the Kweens, whose only round-robin loss was a 25-23 setback at the Trojans' hands.
RDPC's boys' team needed to win both sets of their final round-robin match against the Margaret Barbour Collegiate Institute Spartans from The Pas to advance to the final but dropped the first set 21-25 to fall out of championship contention before rallying to take the second set 25-23 and finish with a 3-3 record, good for third place.
