Led by five Palisadians the North Hollywood Harvard-Westlake High girls varsity volleyball team upset national power San Jose Archbishop Mitty, 25-23, 25-20, 25-20, in the semifinals of the Mitty Invitational September 29 in San Jose. Ranked No. 1 in the nation by Prepvolleyball.com, defending champion Mitty (13-1) was looking to win its own tournament for the fourth consecutive year but was surprisingly swept by a Wolverines squad consisting of Pacific Palisades residents Kasey Kissick, Catherine Sebastian, Cathryn Quinn and Marin Dennis (all seniors) and sophomore Meg Norton. Sebastian, Quinn and Dennis were teammates at St. Matthew’s, where they won two Delphic League Championships with current fellow Harvard-Westlake seniors Alexa Bagnard and K.C. Kanoff, who sat out the Mitty Invitational with an injured ankle. The ‘Fab Five’ have played together since the fifth grade. In the finals later that day, Harvard-Westlake (13-4) fell to third-seeded Santa Barbara in three games, unable to repeat the magic of its semifinal win over Mitty. Los Angeles Marymount, coached by Palisadian Cari Klein, finished fourth overall, losing to Mitty 25-16, 26-24, 25-22 in the third-place match. Sailors Silver in Las Vegas Marymount High finished fifth in the Silver Division at last weekend’s Durango Fall Classic in Las Vegas, which featured many of the top prep volleyball teams in the country. The event consisted of eight pools and the Sailors finished second in their pool, sweeping Rim of the World and Green Valley and losing in three games to Newport Harbor. In Saturday’s quarterfinals, Marymount fell to Long Beach Wilson but rebounded to beat Santa Ana Mater Dei, 25-22, 25-18, in the consolation semifinals. Playing for fifth-place, the Sailors topped Clovis Buchanan, 25-21, 25-18. Marymount hits the road again this weekend, traveling to San Diego for the Torrey Pines tournament.
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