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Show Lone Peak Spikers Best PG Vikings in 5 Game Match When the Knights secured a 3-1 lead in the third game, Pleasant Grove looked doomed. A Jenkinson tip sparked a comeback, come-back, and the game turned into a seesaw fight. When an Anna Hubert ace gave Lone Peak a 14-13 lead, the Knights looked certain of pulling ahead. A Knight hitting error permitted the Vikings to storm back in the game. Through Makell Hymas' serving, Dahl and Daniel delivered deliv-ered kills that gave the Vikings to momentum to stay out in front for the rest of the game. Kills by Sydney and Whitney Whit-ney Johnson made the fourth game a seesaw fight for a little while. Once Pleasant Grove broke a 9D9 tie, the Vikings took firm control of the game. Dahl and Daniel's hitting frustrated frus-trated the Knights even though Lone Peak kept pulling within one point. A Lone Peak service error forced the fifth game. During it, Sydney Johnson's John-son's hitting gave the Vikings a 4-3 lead. However, the combined com-bined hitting power of Huntsman, Hunts-man, Hubert and Whitney cracked Pleasant Grove into pieces like a jackhammer would a concrete square. The Vikings couldn't recover in time. ,.-J' II ? I'll I (, y'- ' " f"" figs" ' ' , i , ,.jh v - ' . . . (. "w r y Y i . -rmyfi7x i y". Y- by Dean Von Memmott In a fivedgame volleyball match played at Pleasant Grove High October 7, the Lone Peak Knights sunk the Vikings by scores of 25-19, 25-19, 21-25, 23-25, 15-7. The showdown marked the third time that the two schools had squared off against each other third fall. In the first match, played during the recent re-cent Rocky Mountain Classic Clas-sic Championships, Pleasant Grove defeated the Knights in a semifinal action. The Knights eventually avenged that lost by acing the Vikings in a three game match at Lone Peak two weeks later. The first game of the October Oc-tober 8 match opened with Knight Whitney Johnson registering regis-tering kill. Kim Dahl's hitting gave Pleasant Grove a brief-2-1 advantage. The Vikings couldn't contain the Knights' aggressiveness in Game 1. Marquelle Funk and Ashlan Rogers led fierce Knight attacks at-tacks that made it impossible for Pleasant Grove to regain the advantage . after a Sydney Johnson kill had given the Vikings Vi-kings 3D2 lead. Even though Le'o Fotu's hitting had put Pleasant Grove within 7D6 and 10D9, Rogers delivered kills that that enabled the Knights to stay narrowly ahead, despite Dahl's aggressiveness aggres-siveness at the net. For the second game, Lone Peak rolled ahead 6-2. Just as Pleasant Grove appeared to be destined to be routed, Gabby Jenkinson made a kill that sparked a Viking comeback. The Vikings repeatedly tied the game through the combined hitting of Dahl, Audrey Biggs and Delayne Daniel. Eventually, Eventu-ally, strong serving by Funk permitted Lone Peak to pull away, even though the Vikings did get within 18-17. Lone Peak won Game 2 on a Viking hitting error. Le'o Fotu and Sydney Johnson team up to block Lone Peak's shot. Photo courtesy of Chris Hocker r1""" "'""""'-.." 11 " I ' "lV: - J....I Kim Dahl blocks a Lady Knights spike as Le'o Fotu comes over to assist. Photo courtesy of Chris Hocker Annie Jenkinson soars like Michael Jordan as she prepares to spike the ball. Photo courtesy of Chris Hocker |