When the North Peace Oscars have Tristen Burridge blasting the ball from the front row and back, they're tough to beat. When the rest of the Oscars get in on the act, the team becomes darn near unstoppable.
The Kelly Road Roadrunners made that discovery in the championship match of the senior boys volleyball triple-A zone championship tournament.
In the best-of-five contest for zone gold, played Saturday night at Prince George secondary, the Oscars swept the Roadrunners 25-18, 25-17, 25-19. Burridge, a Team B.C. player in the summer months, supplied the punch in the Oscars' offence but had plenty of help from teammates Kooper Shallow, Andrew Stewart and Brady Fedderly.
"This was our best weekend, for sure," said North Peace coach and former Prince George resident Darcy Hoff. "I think we had our most balanced offence -- it wasn't coming just out of two players so we got a lot better match-ups against the other teams' blocks."
Burridge, in his Grade 11 year, was named MVP of zones.
"He's just really polished," Hoff said. "He really can do it all."
