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Elecs host home volleyball tournament

The Estevan Comprehensive School (ECS) Elecs senior boys volleyball team had a good learning experience at their annual home tournament on the weekend.
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The Estevan Comprehensive School (ECS) Elecs senior boys volleyball team had a good learning experience at their annual home tournament on the weekend.

The Elecs finished fourth at the tournament, dropping a 2-0 (25-19, 25-12) decision to the Oxbow Prairie Horizons School Black Knights in the bronze medal game.

They opened the tournament by going 2-3 in the round robin, defeating the Elecs Senior B team and the Redvers School Rams, but losing to the Weyburn Comprehensive School Eagles, the Carnduff Education Complex Tigers and the Black Knights.

Then they lost 2-0 (25-18, 25-21) to Weyburn in the semifinal.

Coach Nathan Johnson said this weekend saw the Elecs play at a high level at times, but now they have to find that level of success consistently.

“We had some real highs and lows, and if we can eliminate some of the low points where the other team gets on a real run against us (that would help). I think our passing is pretty close to where it has to be, and I think we’re serving the ball pretty well at times.”

The Elecs have only one player, Noah Perkins, back from last year’s team that made it to the provincial tournament. The home tournament gave them a chance to get used to a higher pace of the play.

It was their second tournament of the year, as they played in Weyburn the weekend before. Future tournaments will be in Saskatoon, Swift Current and Brandon, Man., before Thanksgiving. Then they will have tournaments with Yorkton, Regina and Carnduff prior to regionals.

They will also face the Eagles in the annual Co-op Challenge that pits the Elecs and the Eagles senior boys and girls volleyball teams in home-and-home affairs in October.

The Elecs senior B team also competed at the tournament and went winless. They have a couple Grade 9s to join the Grade 10s on the team. They will compete at some senior tournaments and some Grade 9 and 10 tournaments this year.