STANWOOD — After building up a 2-0 lead against Snohomish on Tuesday, Stanwood volleyball held a 19-14 lead in the third set before getting outscored 11-2 over the next 13 points, in small part due to their own errors. Letting an opportunity to shut the door pass them by, Stanwood knew it needed to refocus entering the fourth set.

“Definitely that we need to cover, and we need to keep the energy,” junior Whitney Longspaugh said about the conversation among her teammates entering the fourth set. “We need to play as a team because we were kind of more separated in that set. It was more of an individual game.”

With Stanwood regrouped and Snohomish given new life, each side struggled to pull ahead of the other at first, alternating points from 3-3 to 8-8 until Snohomish went up 11-8 with two

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