The two-time defending state champion La Conner High School volleyball team took a break from NW2B play last week for matches against teams from larger enrollment schools.

And the Lady Braves showed they clearly weren’t out of their league.

The team, which had not lost a single set to open the 2021 campaign, defeated 4A Glacier Peak 3-1 in a key road test on Thursday, then placed third overall Saturday among 17 larger school entrants at the Capital City Invitational Tournament in Olympia.

“It was so great for us to compete against larger schools,” head coach Suzanne Marble, whose team...