Washington High School Volleyball - Puyallup over Yelm
September 14, 2019: Yelm, WA 98597 The crowd at Saturday's non-league bout between the Puyallup Vikings (Puyallup, WA) and the host Yelm Tornados (Yelm, WA), saw Puyallup's volleyball squad beat Yelm by a tally of 2-0.
With the win, Puyallup upgrades its record to 7-1 on the year. The Vikings travel to Graham-Kapowsin (Graham, WA) to play the Eagles in a non-league bout on Tuesday, September 17. The Eagles go into the bout with a record of 2-0.
The Tornados now own a 0-2 record. They play next when they travel to Shelton for a 3A South Sound bout on Tuesday, September 17. Yelm will play a Highclimbers squad coming off a 3-0 league loss to Peninsula (Gig Harbor, WA). The Highclimbers record now stands at 0-1.
Match Summary
This is a major flaw of this program and one reason it is invalid. We played Puyallup in a round robin format in a tournament, teams don’t always play to win in these type of events and it was only two sets. Why should this count for them and against me. The way this is set up you would have to play your starters every point of every match to have the best chance of winning. This is totally against my philosophy. Aren’t we in the business to allow all athletes to participate. This entire RPI issue doesn’t work for volleyball and should never include tournament play.
