MONROE — The Monroe volleyball team finished the highest of any Wesco participant at the Bearcat Invitational Saturday at Monroe High School, placing fifth out of 12 teams.
“Many coaches use tournaments as an opportunity to work on things and put players in different situations, it’s not nessecarily like league matches,” Monroe head coach April Munoz said. “I’m really pleased because I used almost a different lineup every single match, they rose to the challenge it was great.”
The Bearcats rebounded from a 2-0 loss to Kennedy Catholic in the opening round of tournament play with back-to-back 2-0 victories over Wesco opponents Edmonds-Woodway and Lake Stevens. All matches were played best-of-three.
In the fifth/sixth place match against Lake Stevens, the Bearcats took the first set 25-19 before losing a back-and-forth thriller 35-33 in the second set. The Bearcats battled to a 15-11 win in the third set to earn the victory.
On Thursday, Lake Stevens defeated Monroe 3-1 in a Wesco 4A league game.
“It was awesome because in the second set it was back and forth, neither team could score more than one point at a time,” Munoz said. “…We were excited to pull out the win after losing to them the other night.”
Monroe defeated Edmonds-Woodway 25-20, 25-21 in the second round of tournament play.
Shorecrest and Edmonds-Woodway tied for seventh and Mountlake Terrace finished 10th to round out the Wesco finishers.
Lake Stevens defeated Shorecrest 25-21, 20-25, 15-11 in the second round of tournament play.
Bellarmine Prep (Tacoma) finished first.
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