Lady Grizzlies Season Ends In District Championship

The Grace Lady Grizzlies took part in their district tournament last week at the neutral site of Blackfoot High School.  The three teams in the tournament were seeded based off of their regular season match ups.  Based on those match ups the Lady Grizzlies entered the tournament as the number two seed.  As the number two seed the Lady Grizzlies started the tournament taking on the number three seeded Alturas Prep Lady Pumas.  Grace easily took care of the Pumas in three sets setting them up against the states number one ranked team the Butte County Lady Pirates.  The Lady Grizzlies had not beaten the Lady Pirates all season but they were not going to go down without a fight.  Grace put up a good effort but were unable to prevail against a tough Butte County team.  Even though Grace lost that match they did manage to steal one set which only a few teams had managed to do against the Lady Pirates this season.  With the tournament set up as a true double elimination the Lady Grizzlies had to go back and face the Lady Pumas again.  Once again the Lady Grizzlies had little trouble with the Pumas eliminating them from the tournament.  With that win they would once again face the Lady Pirates.  This time the Lady Grizzlies were not able to come up with any set wins and fell in three straight sets.  The Lady Grizzlies ended their season having won some tough games.  Grace will lose some great senior players but will bring back a strong group of girls to make another run next season.

Grizzlies 25 25 25

Pumas 7 7 15

Grizzlies 18 25 17 12

Pirates 25 22 25 25

Grizzlies 25 25 25

Pumas - - -

Grizzlies 11 10 15

Pirates 25 25 25