The road to a seventh state volleyball championship may well go through Manson.

If so, the Lady Braves will have to bypass the speed bumps they encountered during a two-day Eastern Washington swing last week that saw La Conner drop matches to 2B Manson and 1A Chelan.

The defending state volleyball champions rebounded from those setbacks with a convincing straight-sets home triumph over 2A Squalicum on Friday, Oct. 28. This was the kind of win that bodes well for post-season, which opens tonight, Nov. 2, at Landy James Gym.

On a night when head coach Suzanne Marble cut the ribbon on a section o...