State Volleyball: #4 Lake Stevens and Undefeated #1 Curtis Set for Semifinal Battle, Saturday, 10 am

Two wins and nine sets later, Lake Stevens dispatched Tahoma followed by a two-loss Camas team and earned a chance to knock out the top seed and earn a slot in the final

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YAKIMA – The Wesco and District 1/2 champion Lake Stevens Vikings (19-3) face off in State Semifinal action Saturday morning at 10 am versus the top-seeded and undefeated Curtis Vikings (26-0) after a successful day of playoff volleyball that saw the Viks send two opps to the bottom half of the bracket. 

Lake Stevens lived up to their four-seed status Friday, knocking out #13 seed Tahoma (25-20, 25-17, 25-27, 25-14) in the Round of 16 before knocking RPI’s third-rated team – the Camas Papermakers (20-2) – out of the winner’s bracket in a hard-fought five set grinder late Friday night.

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The five seed Greater St. Helens League champ picked up their third loss of the season when the Viks outlasted them to the tune of 27-29, 25-19, 25-22, 26-28, 15-10. The Viks showed a ton of resilience after going down a set, losing the opener 27-29 – after missing on four set points of their own. Lake won the next two sets and appeared ready to close out Camas in four, leading 24-19 in the fourth set. 

Camas wasn’t going out easy, fighting off five consecutive match points before pulling even and ultimately earning their own set point. The Viks fought off two of Camas set points before the Papermakers prevailed, forcing the match to a decisive fifth set.

And that’s where Lake exerted control,