Back-to-Back CHAMPIONS!

LCP dropped only one set on their way to a perfect 11-0 season.  Lead by eighth-grade captains, Chloe Dehnoushi, Talia Mardrussian and Larisa Minasyan, the Lady Knights amassed a nineteen-game win streak going back to the start of last season.  The championship game was held in front of a full house at Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy’s gym on November 30.

In the first set, Gooden came out fast, going up 10-5 then 18-14 before LCP’s Emma McDavid went on a six-point serving spree to put the Lady Knights ahead to stay. LCP held on to take the first set 25-23.  In the second set behind the dominant serving of Dehnoushi, the Lady Knights jumped out to an early advantage and never looked back, easily winning the second set 25-12 to bring home the championship.

“The first set almost gave me a heart attack,” said second-year coach Jill Jose. “That was the toughest set we’d played all season.  I feel really fortunate that we managed to come out on top of that one.  It would’ve been a completely different match if we hadn’t.”