The girls volleyball team lost only two sets in matches against seven different schools at the north seeding tournament in Haines and is looking to build on that winning streak with home matches Friday and Saturday, Oct. 24-25.

The Wrangell team lost one set to Petersburg and one set to Hoonah in matches Thursday, Friday and Saturday, Oct. 16-18, in Haines, said head coach Shelley Powers.

“We won every one of our matches,” adding victories against Haines, Skagway, Craig, Klawock and Metlakatla to their wins against Petersburg and Hoonah to go 7-0 in the tournament.

“Our girls did a great job serving all of the teams off the court,” Powers said. Serving “is a huge priority when it comes to our practices.”

It was busy weekend for the players in Haines. “Everybody plays everybody” in best two-out-of-three matches in a seeding tournament, the coach explained.

The won-loss records from the north seeding tournament will be added to the records from the south seeding tournament in Craig Nov. 6-8 to determine the seeding for the Southeast high school Division 2A championships in Skagway Nov. 20-22.

In their last matches before the south seeding tournament, Wrangell will host teams from Klawock and Tri-Valley (Healy) on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 24-25.

The Wolves joined the Tri-Valley Warriors the past two years at the state volleyball tournament, defeating the team from Healy in 2023. “They wanted to come down to see us,” Powers said of Tri-Valley’s travel plans this week — a long drive to an airport for a flight to Wrangell.

A dozen Wrangell players made the plane and state ferry trip to Haines and back last weekend, and everyone got playing time, the coach said.

“We’re super proud of the girls and their hard work,” noting that every time they were behind, the team rallied back.

Senior Christina Johnson, who has been setting for the Wolves since she was a freshman, had an outstanding tournament in Haines, Powers said. So did Sophia Martinsen as a key defensive player guarding the back of the court, “getting a lot of digs when the other team was attacking.”

Junior Alana Harrison “was a star hitter in our last game against Metlakatla,” always one of the stronger teams among the smaller schools in Southeast.

Wrangell finished fourth at last year’s state volleyball tournament. This year’s state championship is set for Dec. 3-6 in Anchorage.