A18 TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2011 CHILLIWACK TIMES
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Highroad Academy’s Whitney Zylstra battles a pair of White Rock Christian Academy players at the net during the Senior A Girls Volleyball Fraser Valley Championship final at Highroad Wednesday. Highroad captured the gold and Zylstra was named tournament MVP.
Knights crowned champs Senior girls win volleyball gold at Fraser Valleys BY CORNELIA NAYLOR cnaylor@chilliwacktimes.com
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hilliwack’s Highroad Academy Knights punched their ticket to the provincial championships with a gold medal finish at the Senior A Girls Volleyball Fraser Valley Championships at Highrad this week. The girls took down White Rock Christian Academy in four sets (25-23, 25-13, 25-19 and 25-21) to win the banner Wednesday after beating Langley Christian in the semifinal Monday. The Knights dropped their first set in both matches, and the girls had to overcome a 2016 deficit against a scrappy White Rock side Wednesday to win the championship, but Highroad coach Larry Daley was never really worried about the final outcome.
“Most of the time it’s just their own mistakes,” he said of his team. “That’s what really kills them. It’s not like White Rock was really beating us up or anything.” It’s the first time the Knights have topped the Fraser Valley podium since 2008. Last year the team won the provincial championship but had to win a wildcard berth to get there. The team’s prospects at the B.C.s look promising again this year, with last year’s provincial tournament MVP Whitney Zylstra and all-stars Richelle Hylkema and Elina Caronni all still in the starting lineup. It’s really Daley that’s the newcomer—in the head coach’s chair anyway. He took over from longtime Highroad coach Duncan Harrison after the latter was hired as women’s head coach at Columbia Bible College in Abbotsford in March. Harrison had led the team to three of its five provincial banners. “For me it was more or less making sure that the program continued the way it’s been run,” said Daley of his reasons for taking on
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