by Scott Sacry, Sports Editor
The Corvallis, Hamilton, and Stevensville volleyball teams are all in the Southwest A Conference. The top three teams in the 2025 conference season standings (Frenchtown, Hamilton, and Dillon) got byes into the Western A Divisionals.
The bottom three teams played play-in games last week to determine the final and #4 seed for divisionals. In the final conference standings, Butte Central was 6th, Corvallis was 5th, and Stevensville was 4th.
Play-in games
In the first play-in game on Thursday, October 30, #5 Corvallis hosted #6 Butte Central. After an epic first set, which Corvallis lost 26-28, Corvallis rallied to win the next three sets, 25-14, 25-22, and 25-23, to get the 3-1 hard-fought victory.
Stevensville’s Kyndahl Plantz makes a block in Stevensville’s 3-0 victory over Corvallis in a divisional play-in game in Stevi on Saturday, Nov. 1. The Hamilton and Stevi volleyball teams will compete at the Western A Divisionals in Libby on Nov. 6-8. Photo by Scott Sacry.
This sent #5 Corvallis to #4 Stevensville to play the second divisional play-in game in Stevensville on Saturday, November 1 with a trip to divisionals on the line. Stevensville won a close first set 25-23, and dominated the second set 25-11. Then in the final set, Stevensville was down 20-23, until Stevensville senior Kyndahl Plantz scored five straight service points to give the ‘Jackets a 25-23 victory to defeat Corvallis 3-0.
Corvallis’s Nahiya Jennings (#9) and Olivia Potter (#2) prepare to receive a serve in Corvallis’s divisional play-in game against Stevensville on Saturday, Nov. 1. Corvallis lost 0-3. Photo by Scott Sacry.
Western A Divisionals
The Western A Divisionals are in Libby from Thursday, Nov. 6 to Saturday, Nov. 8.
Hamilton is the #2 seed from the Southwest and plays the #3 seed from the Northwest, Columbia Falls, on Thursday, Nov. 6 at 4 p.m.
Stevensville is the #4 seed from the Southwest and plays the #1 seed from the Northwest, Bigfork, on Thursday, Nov. 6 at 2 p.m.
Final regular season games
Hamilton hosted Corvallis earlier in the week, on Tuesday, October 28, and Hamilton won 3-0 (25-21, 25-12, 25-9). For Hamilton, Ciara Hanley had 12 kills and 8 aces, Lundyn Murray had 12 digs, and Aurie Duncan had 23 assists.
Stevensville hosted Frenchtown earlier in the week, on Tuesday, October 28, and lost 0-3 (19-25, 13-25, 8-25).