Colorado state volleyball tournament day 2: Vail Christian stays alive as Lewis-Palmer ends Battle Mountain’s season

Vail Christian stayed alive in 2A as Battle Mountain got sent home in 4A on Day 2 of the Colorado state volleyball tournament Friday in Denver. The Huskies received the unlucky consequences of a first-round upset. Because No. 8 Timnath took down Lewis-Palmer on Thursday, the No. 1-seeded Rangers wound up in the elimination bracket against No. 10 Battle Mountain on Friday. Lewis-Palmer went on to defeat Battle Mountain 25-19, 25-20, 25-17. The Huskies finished their season 19-7 overall and 10-0 in the Western Slope, where they claimed their third-straight league title. No. 3 Vail Christian went up against No. 12 Sedgwick County on Friday afternoon in the first round of the elimination bracket. The Saints took the first set 25-20 before dropping the next one 19-25. The third set went to Vail Christian again (25-18). Mary McClarrinon’s kill made it 23-21 late in the back-and-forth fourth, forcing Sedgwick County into a timeout.

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