Intermountain Conference Volleyball Championship: Crook County High School defeated Ridgeview High School Saturday afternoon for the Intermountain Conference Volleyball championship.

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Crook County High School defeated Ridgeview High School Saturday afternoon for the Intermountain Conference Volleyball championship. Ridgeview was the defending Oregon Class 5A state champion, while Crook County has earned trophies at the state championship 14 of the past 15 years.

There is no state championship this year, which is a shame as both schools had a good chance to reach the finals. Crook County is in blue. Both schools should still be tough next year as they each graduate just three seniors.

The white panels in the background with a map of Oregon on them are some of the brackets from the eight state championships that Crook County has won since 2006.

Only posting Crook County photos as to the victor goes the spoils. Photo 10 is the shot that ended the third set. Ball went out of bounds long, but as you can see there was a touch by the Ridgeview blocker. If anyone cares the score was 18-25, 25-127, 25-18, 25-20.

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jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

25-127! That one must have taken a while to finish!

(Sorry--couldn't’ resist.)

Nice action photos. VB became one of my favorite sports while my granddaughters were playing.

btbg

jaymatt wrote:

25-127! That one must have taken a while to finish!

(Sorry--couldn't’ resist.)

Nice action photos. VB became one of my favorite sports while my granddaughters were playing.

Yeah, should have said 17. Typos really screw things up on sports scores. I do like volleyball. Have coached it for the last 25 years and still play when I get a chance, although at 65 my game has eroded significantly.

Thurber Mingus

It's a difficult sport to shoot. My stepdaughter is on a high level 12 year old's club team so I shoot her games now and then. She also plays some sand (beach) volleyball which is much easier and more fun in my opinion.

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Thurber Mingus wrote:

It's a difficult sport to shoot. My stepdaughter is on a high level 12 year old's club team so I shoot her games now and then. She also plays some sand (beach) volleyball which is much easier and more fun in my opinion.

My kids never played volleyball, they were runners. I have coached volleyball for 25 years and, as long as you have a 70-200 f2.8 and a reasonably well lit gym its really pretty easy to shoot once you fully understand it. Also, the higher the level of play the either it is to shoot.

The only thing that makes shooting in the gym that these shots were taken at ISO 8,000 at 1/1000 of a second at f2.8. Most gyms are at least two full stops brighter and often more than that.

Thurber Mingus

btbg wrote:

My kids never played volleyball, they were runners. I have coached volleyball for 25 years and, as long as you have a 70-200 f2.8 and a reasonably well lit gym its really pretty easy to shoot once you fully understand it. Also, the higher the level of play the either it is to shoot.

The only thing that makes shooting in the gym that these shots were taken at ISO 8,000 at 1/1000 of a second at f2.8. Most gyms are at least two full stops brighter and often more than that.

Last weekends huge national qualifier was in a convention center, so maybe that's coloring my recollection, but my shots were similar to yours, but at ISO 16000-20000, and the lights had some differing color casts. You can see them in second set I posted in the thread I started yesterday.