Chris Parson knew his boys belonged.

Soon, the rest of the province’s top high school volleyball teams are also going to find out.

“It’s pretty awesome,” Stratford District’s senior boys coach said a day after winning the Western Ontario triple-A title. “We’ve had success in the past at Stratford Central before amalgamating, and that was double-A. This is a totally different beast going against the big boys in London. We always competed with them in double-A . . .but we always felt we could compete at the triple-A level, and this just proves it.”

Playing in front of a hostile London crowd in a match that started 90 minutes late, the Huron-Perth champs took care of Oakridge 25-23, 20-25, 25-23, 25-20 to book a spot at OFSAA next week in Ottawa.

“They always say the last set is the harde

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