The College Heights Cougars got what they were after Thursday on the B.C. double-A boys provincial volleyball court in Langley.
The Cougars won back-to-back matches in the championship playoff to advance to a semifinal encounter with the George Elliot Coyotes of Lake Country.
After losing two of their three seeding matches Wednesday, the Cougars were re-seeded third, one notch below their pre-tournament ranking. That meant they were matched with Pacific Christian in their first game of the day Thursday morning and College Heights rolled to a 3-0 (25-16, 25-18, 25-9) victory .
Then in the quarterfinals Thursday afternoon, the Cougars dispatched Surrey Christian 3-1 (25-19, 25-11, 23-25, 25-22).
Top-ranked George Elliot swept its two playoff matches, beating Windermere and Richmond Christian to advance to the 5:30 p.m. semifinal encounter with College Heights today.
Langley Christian and Abbotsford Christian will meet in the other semifinal. The winners will move on to the championship game Saturday at 4 p.m.
After three straight three-set losses on the first day of the 16-team tournament, the Kelly Road Roadrunners got their winning act together and defeated Prince Charles of Creston 3-1 (20-25, 25-17, 25-27, 25-17). That pitted the eight-ranked Roadrunners against Langley Christian and their hopes of upsetting the No. 2-ranked team crumbled in a 3-0 (25-8, 25-12, 25-16) loss.
Kelly Road still has a shot at finishing fifth and will need to beat Mennonite Educational Institute of Abbotsford in a playoff today at 11:30 a.m. to get to that fifth-sixth placement match on Saturday.
• Meanwhile, at the double-A girls provincial tournament in Burnaby, the Kelly Road Roadrunners went 0-3 on opening day Thursday. They lost 2-0 (25-15, 25-16) to York House, dropped a three-set decision to Pacific Christian (25-18, 22-25, 15-8) and were swept by Surrey Christian (25-16, 25-13).
The Roadrunners take on MEI in a playoff math today at 11:30 a.m. The winner advances to play the Langley Christian-West Point Gray Academy winner.
• In Nanaimo, site of the 20-team single-A girls provincial championship, the 14th-ranked Cedars Christian Eagles lost their first three best-of-three round-robin matches Thursday, falling in straight sets to No. 2 Kelowna Christian (25-10, 25-11), No. 18 Duncan Christian (25-2, 25-23) and No. 11 Fernie (25-11, 25-15).
The Eagles will wrap up round-robin play today at 9:40 a.m. against Credo Christian.
