There are going to be a handful of contenders come November for the 3A volleyball title. Two were on display Wednesday night at Valley Christian.

The host Trojans were jolted by a 2-0 deficit, but got off the hardwood to deal Snowflake a 3-2 defeat before a boisterous crowd at Valley Christian. The scores were 24-26, 19-25, 25-16, 25-9 and 15-9.

Snowflake, which brought a 4-0 record to the match and hadn't lost a set in those victories, showed why it hadn't lost in the opening two sets by rallying from behind for what appeared to be a victorious evening.

Valley Christian, 2-0 heading into play, began playing more to its potential midway through the third set and bought itself a fourth. The 25-9 final gave Valley tremendous momentum heading to the deciding set.

The final set was back and forth with Valley holding a 10-9 lead after Snowflake's Elle Lundberg's kill. The Lobos Kylee Penrod had serve after the sideout provided by Lundberg, but she lined her serve out of bounds.

That brought Snowflake's kryptonite to the service line for Valley Christian - Trojans' libero Megan Davies.

Davies had been primarily responsible for VC building 5-1leads out of the gate in each of the first four sets. When the fifth set started, Snowflake solved Davies and registered a kill off her serve from Macee Papa. Davies was back in charge,however, to close out the set and match .

Valley Christian's Megan Davies launches the final serve that closed out a 15-9 win over Snowflake in the fifth set of their match. (AzPreps365 photo).

Davies served three successive aces to bring about match point and right side hitter Emma Richardson finished a 5-0 close with a kill. Davies totaled eight aces for the evening and the Trojans combined managed 19.

"I think we have a chance to do very well," Valley Christian coach Lindy Ramsland, a former VC alum and volleyball standout, said. "We are another year older with most of the same players. Last year we started out 0-3 against the same three teams we've beaten so far to be 3-0. We have a deep bench and I don't hesitate to bring anyone in.

"The difference I think was we started playing to win rather than not to lose. We knew this was going to be a coin-toss of a game."

Snowflake coach Alan Ramage said the Lobos passing left much to be desired, but his team is very good defensively and was able to overcome passing woes more than would be expected after winning the first two sets.

"The fourth set was the worst loss I've ever had as a coach," Ramage said. "We came back in the last set and see-sawed with them until their libero got the the serve. We can pass better than we did tonight."

Leaders on the attack unofficially in the match: Valley Christian got 16 kills from Braun, nine each from Breanna Brooks and Emma Richarson, six from Brianna Gilbert and five from Abigail Calicchio. Braun and Davies had 17 digs each. For Snowflake on offense it was Papa with eight kills, Anna Berger six, and Reagan Olsen with five.