Sometimes settling for silver means more than taking second place, considering the competition.

A team of 12 players from Vancouver Island and the Central Coast, including five from Langford, recently earned a hard-fought silver medal at a Volleyball B.C. zone tournament. Eight under-15 girls teams from across the province competed July 18 and 19 at Harry Jerome Sports Centre in Burnaby.

The Zone 6 Island/Coast  team beat Zone 5 Vancouver/Squamish in three sets in the semifinal (25-15, 11-25, 15-13), before losing the final to Zone 3 Fraser Valley, 25-17, 25-22.

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MayB次元官网网址檚 daughters, Hannah, 14 and Gracie, 13 B次元官网网址� an underage player selected as team captain B次元官网网址� were among five players from Langford on the Zone 6 team, the others being Savannah Purdy, 15, Sydney Belton, 15, and Taylee Pomponio, 13, comprise the other players from Langford.

That group won back-to-back provincial titles in 2014 and 2015 as part of the Victoria Volleyball AssociationB次元官网网址檚 West Shore club team. LangfordB次元官网网址檚 Miranda Cyr, 15, is an alternate.

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