Spartans take title at A-P Invitational

PARKERSBURG – The Grundy Center Spartan volleyball team avenged a loss earlier in the day to Class 4A No. 4 ranked West Delaware 25-19, 15-25, 15-8 to take the championship match and the tournament title at Parkersburg on Saturday.
“It’s something we thought we could do, but we had to play consistent for an entire match,” Grundy Center head coach Darwin Sents said. “We have flashes where we play really well and then we don’t so much, and against good teams we have to play well the entire match. We really made strides in that.”
The Spartans picked up wins in their first two matches of pool play, 21-14, 21-14 over Aplington-Parkersburg and 21-18, 21-16 over Nashua Plainfield. In their third and final pool match Grundy Center suffered their only loss of the day to West Delaware 18-21, 7-21.
“West Delaware’s the best team we’ve played all year — they’re well coached, they have good athletes, they’re just traditionally very, very good,” Sents said.

For more of this story see the Sept. 19 Grundy Register.