In Western AA volleyball action at the Capital High Bear's Den gym Thursday, the Capital Bruins (2-9, 2-4) lost a tough, grueling match to a very good visiting Glacier High (4-4, 3-1) in five sets, 20-25, 25-17, 25-20, 22-25, 18-16. After being down two sets to one, the Bruins battled back courageously to win the fourth set, and were ahead 14-11 in the final tie-breaker before losing the marathon by just two points.

"This was a tough one to lose, but we competed in this match," said Capital coach Sarah Urban. "I saw determination from the kids tonight that I haven't seen before this year. We did a lot of good things, but we still made too many passing and serving errors."

Emily Burk paced the Lady Bruin spikers, with 36 assists, 12 digs and four aces. Sammi Bignell posted 14 kills and three blocks.

Glacier def. Capital 20-25, 25-17, 25-20, 22-25, 18-16

Kills - CHS (41) Sammi Bignell 14, Gla (34) Emily Hashlee 11; Aces - CHS (9) Emily Burk 4, Gla (13) Lindsay Vaudt 5; Assists - CHS (36) Burk 36, Gla (27) Vaudt 27; Blocks - CHS (6) Bignell 3, Kelsey Robertson 3, Gla (9) Kendra Foley 5; Digs - CHS (57) Burk 12, Gla (57) Kayla Smart 15.

Townsend wins in three

The Townsend volleyball team walked right over Whitehall Thursday night, winning in three sets 25-12, 25-12, 25-10.

Delaware Hansen led the Bulldogs with nine kills while Becky Moudree and Siobhan Flynn were both tough along the net, picking up eight kills apiece.

Moudree had five blocks and Flynn four to lead the squad.

Panthers take loss

The Jefferson Panthers volleyball squad dropped their match with Manhattan Thursday night 25-8, 25-21, 22-25, 25-5.

Jefferson was only able to pick up 12 kills in the match, getting three apiece from Amanda Walker, Jordan Powers and Emily Flathers.

Soja Giulio led the Panthers' defense with 18 of the team's 24 digs.