CCH earns spots in 4A South Zone volleyball finals

Catholic Central Cougars boys and girls advanced to their respective championship matches after preliminary play at the South Zone 4A High School Volleyball Championships on Friday.

At the Catholic Central West campus, the host Cougars went undefeated in their two matches on Friday to move on to the girls’ title game today at 1:30 p.m.

Cougars defeated Chinook Coyotes 2-1 by scores of 25-16, 22-25 and 15-13.

Amaya Perry led the Cougars with 15 kills, a block and three aces while Jana Dyck also added three aces.

Lauren Follett replied with five kills, a block and two aces for the Coyotes and Kara Kotkas added five kills and two aces.

CCH also defeated Medicine Hat Kwahommies 2-1 by scores of 20-25, 2519 and 15-10.

Cait MacMillan had 12 kills and two blocks in a losing cause.

Chinook dropped its second match of the day to the Kwahommies, 23-25, 19-25, setting up a semifinal rematch with the Hat today at 10:30 a.m.

Meanwhile next door at Chinook High, the CCH Cougars were also 2-0 after preliminary play Friday, earning a spot in today’s title match, also at 1:30 p.m.

Cougars defeated the host Coyotes 2-1 by scores of 25-27, 25-22 and 15-10.

Jens Watt and Jack Gaehring led CCH with seven and six kills respectively. Matthew Sargeant replied with eight kills for Chinook.

Cougars also went three sets with the Medicine Hat High Mohawks before prevailing 25-20, 24-26 and 15-3.

Gaehring had eight kills and four blocks for the winners and Watt added six kills and two blocks.

Chinook finished the day at 1-1 after a 27-25, 25-19 win over Hat High. The teams will meet again today at 10:30 a.m. in the semifinal with the winner advancing to play CCH.

All of today’s matches are five sets.