Live! Coverage of the VHSL AAA Volleyball Semifinals from VCU: Vikes Win State Title!

Wow ... Dan Sousa here after postmatch interviews with Loudoun County as the Raiders celebrated their third consecutive AA state title with a sweep over Grafton ... Now can Loudoun Valley make it a 2-for state title special?

Valley faces South County in all Northern Virginia final ... about to start ... refresh y
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Set 4 (Valley leads 2-1 and chance to grab first ever AAA volleyball title and 4th overall title in school
history)

*Bland kills! 25-22 ... Valley are State champs!!!! A 2-fer State Title Saturday for  Loudoun Volleyball
*Malsch scores! 24-22
*Net vio. LV, 23-22
*Stephens kills, 23-21 Vikes
I should say 23-20 Vikes ... I missed a point ... hard to keep up
Time out SC
*Bennett drops the set!, 22-20 LV
*Phipps puts a bruise on the leg of the dig with a blaster!, 21-20 LV
*Another SE Vikes, 20-20
*Phipps mishits on push set but it falls!, 20-19 LV
*Clark dig falls all the way over and down, 19-19 ... Vikes need six to win state title
*Stephens beats solo block, 19-18 SC
*Phipps is long, we are tied 18-18
*Antwi kill, 18-17 LV
*Phipps with block, 18-16 LV
*Clark drops an ace on back line! 17-16 lv
*SE Stallions, 16-16
*Mahmoudpour Ace ... 16-15 SC in lead now and Vikes call timeout
*Antwi blocks, 15-15
*Another LV SE, 15-14
*Clark kill off block to stop sc run, 15-13 Vikes
*Lift vio. Vikes, 14-13 LV
*Antwi, could dunk, instead she kills ... 14-12 LV
*Illegal attack on Martin as Libero, 14-11 LV
*Bennett with the dump and Kris Kelican and Rob Putrio, Ad and Asst. AD from LV are up and cheering! 14-10 LV
*Clark puts a kill in the corner 13-10 LV
*McIntyre service winner, 12-10 LV
*Clark way high and blasts off the dig attempt, ouch!, 11-10 LV
*Stallions save a sure ace and then Stephens off block, 10-10
*SE Stallions, 10-9 LV
*SE Vikes ... they may regret all these missed chances, 9-9
*Clark showing skill with backrow kill, 9-8 LV
*Stephens for SC tied set, 8-8
*Bland long for LV, 8-7 LV
*SE Vikes, 8-6 LV
*Phipps strong in middle, 8-5 Vikes
*Stephens tools for SC but vio called on SC, 7-5 Vikes
*SE Vikes again! 6-5 LV
*Antwi wide again, 6-4 Vikes
*Phipps with roof for LV, 5-4 Vikes
*Antwi wide, 4-4
*SE Vikes, 4-3 SC
*Ace for Martin! 3-3
*Clark tools for LV, 3-2 SC
*SE Vikes, 3-1 SC
*SE Stallions, 2-1 SC
*Antwi MB spot, kill, 2-0 Stallions
*Stephens starts SC, 1-0 Stallions




*The serve never comes back ... Valley wins set three! 25-22!
*Bland tools the block and SC goes crazy with complaints but it is now 24-22 Vikes
*Stephens from MB spot, 23-22 Vikes
*SC long, 23-21 Vikes
*Clark gets roll off net and its Vikes up 22-21 with SC calling T.O.
*Lift vio SC, 21-21
*Net vio LV, 21-20 SC
*SE LV, 20-20
*Phipps drops an ace for Vikes! 20-19 LV
*Phipps counters 19-19
*Stephens for sc, 19-18 Stallions
*Bennett puts it over for a point, 18-18
*Phipps is long, SC up 18-17
*Lift vio. Vikes, 17-17
*Antwi strong thru block, 17-16 Vikes
*Clark wins battle at net, 17-15 Vikes
*They trade points, 16-15 Vikes
*Clark is blocked, 15-14 and time out Vikes leading
*Clark long, 15-13 Lv
*Antwi kill 15-12
*I save Carl Lukat's life by knocking the ball away from his head, 15-11 LV
*Antwi solo blocks Clark, LV leads 14-11
*Weatherhead tools for SC, 14-10 Lv
*Malsch with direction kill 14-9
*Bland with kill for LV, 13-9 Vikes
*SC Stephens ends run, 12-9 Vikes
*Malsch in middle, 12-8 Vikes
*Phipps ace for LV, 11-8 Vikes
*Maddox kill for LV, 10-8 Vikes
*SC out, 9-8 Vikes
*SC error, 8-8
*Vikes long, 8-7 SC
*Point, SC, 7-7
*Phipps with kill to put Vikes up 7-6
*Vio SC again, 6-6
*another vio SC, 6-5
*Phipps scores on the joust, 6-4 SC
*Antwi again with the dink, 6-3 SC
*SE Stallions, 5-3
*Clark wants touch but she is long on attack, 5-2 SC
*Mahmoudpour drops ace for Stallions, 4-2 SC
*SE vikes, 3-2 SC
*LV scores, 2-2
*Antwi is blocked but on second attempt her dink scores, 2-1 SC
*Martin from backrow kill for LV 1-1
*Antwi up high (as always) for kill, 1-0 SC



*Clarke ends it for Vikes, 25-16
*LV dink wide, 24-16
*Antwi up high, 24-15 Vikes
*Bland with kill and Stallions call time out, 24-14 ... vikes about to tie it up, 1-1
*Stephens for SC from corner, 23-14
*Malsch with dink, 23-13 LV
*Stephens again for SC, 22-13 LV
*Maddox kill 22-12 LV
*Stephens again for SC, 21-12
*Stephens kill, 21-11 LV
*Phipps again scores, 21-10
*4-hits SC, LV up 20-10
*Phipps kill, 19-10 LV
*Stephens kill for SC 18-10 LV
*Err SC, 18-9
*Antwi kill 17-9
*Bennett push set scores, 17-8
*SE LV, 16-8
*clark kill for LV, 16-7
*Bennett kill, 15-7 LV
*McIntyre Ace for Vikes, 14-7
*Bennett kill for vikes, 13-7
*SE SC, 12-7
*Stephens kill for SC, 11-7 LV
*SE SC, 11-6
*SE Vikes, 10-6
*Malsch tools for Vikes, 10-5 LV
*Bland kill Vikes, 9-5 LV
*SE SC, 8-5 LV
*Stephens kill SC, 7-5 LV
*SC wide, 7-4 LV
*Maddox tools LV, 6-4 LV
*Antwi kill SC, 5-4
*Phipps with kill, 5-3 LV
*SE LV, 4-3, LV
*Clark kill, 4-2 LV
*SE Vikes, 3-2 LV
*Set Vio SC, 3-1 LV
*Clark kill LV, 2-1 Vikes
*SE SC, 1-1
*LV vio and it is 1-0 SC
(This time we will put the newest points on top for this set)
Set Two Starts (SC up 1-0 over LV)




Set One Starts
*South County up 2-1 after an ace and then kill by Weatherhead.
*South County up 4-2 with Clark a kill for Valley but Antwi with two kills
*South County 5-3 but Taylor Maddux with kill, 5-4 SC
*Gregorowicz with kill but a third SC service error already makes it 6-5 SC
*Phipps with the big block in the middle, tied 6-6
*Bland puts LV ahead 7-6 with kill.
*Net Vio LV, 7-7
*Gregorowicz block and Phipps long followed by ace by Robertson and its 10-7 SC
*Stephens tools the block and Vikes call time out trailing 11-7
*Stephens back-to-back kills and its 13-7 Stallions
*Phipps stops the run with a kill off the block, 13-8 SC
*Service error LV, 14-8 SC
*Stephens sky high for kill, 15-8
*Stephens on fire! kill ... 16-8 SC
*SE Stallions, 16-9
*Malsch with the tip kill, 16-10
*Clark destroys a free ball, 16-11 SC
*Maddox with an ace, 16-12 SC
*Stephens stops Vike run with hard kill of defense, 17-12
*Clark goes over block, long, 18-12 SC in command
*Teams trade service errors, 19-13 SC ... Vikes need a run or face a 1-0 deficit
*Backrow attck vio on Vike Libero, 20-13
*Mishit Vikes, all going bad for LV as they call timeout, down 21-13
*Antwi kill, 22-13
*jansen Ace, 23-13 SC
*Clark kill for LV, 23-14
*SC wide on attack, 23-15
*Valley rallying with point, 23-16
*SC one from the first set, 24-16
*Phipps big in middle, 24-17
*A couple of SC errors, 24-19
*Gregorowicz ends it with a kill, 25-19m