Quinte Eagles Soar
The Eagles are soaring again.
The Quinte Christian High School Eagles ended a 21-year drought Wednesday by winning their first COSSA ‘A’ junior girls volleyball championship since 1988.
And they did it the hard way by defeating perennial champion Ecole Secondaire Marc Garneau Astros of Trenton.
The Astros went into the COSSA tournament riding a nine-year junior winning streak.
But the Astros couldn’t make it 10 titles in a row as a balanced Eagles squad took the championship with a thrilling 25-16, 26-24 victory in front of a packed home gym.
“All season long we seemed to have different players make key contributions at different times,” said Eagles coach Steve VandeHoef. “This was really a team effort.”
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