>All three sets were decided by two points but it was Chaska which came from behind to earn a 2-1 victory in the opening match of the Eagle Invitational.

The Panthers and Hawks traded the lead seven times, with 12 tie scores, in the opening set, which saw North fend off a pair of set points.

Trailing 24-22, the Panthers got a break with a hitting error by Chaska to regain serve and Halle Wolfe, who served the final three points of the set, set Elizabeth Juhnke for a pair of kills for the final lead change before Kennedy Brady put away an Amanda Burger set to polish off the 26-24 win.

The second set would play out much the same as the first, as the teams once again traded the lead seven ties and were tied 14 times.

A 13-9 Hawk lead was the biggest lead of the set but a 6-2 run by the Panthers tied the scored at 15-15 and, after Chaska took a 20-17 lead, North came back and would lead twice, a 22-21 and 23-22, on kills by Brady.

From there, the Hawks would scored the final three points of the set to tie the match at 1-1 and send it to a decisive third set.

In that final stanza, the Panthers would come from behind three times to tie the score but could not manage to wrest the lead from Chaska as the Hawks advanced to the championship side of the tournament bracket.

Kennedy Brady led the Panthers up front by hitting .381 with 11 kills. She also added four blocks and tallied 13 points. Elizabeth Juhnke contributed a double-double with 12 kills and 16 digs.

North needed just 34 minutes to cruise past Alexandria in a two-set victory.

The Panthers had a 79 percent side out rate for the match, allowing the Cardinals to score consecutive points on just different occasions.

Elizabeth Junnke's 13 kills accounted for half of North's 26 kills for the match. She hit .360, recorded eight digs and was 14-for-14 receiving serve.

Halle Wolfe helped lead the Panthers from the back row as she had a pair of aces, a match-high 11 digs and was 8-for-8 receiving serve as North did not give up a service ace for the first time this season.

North led from start to finish in the opening set, battled through six tie scores and four lead changes in the second and opened play Saturday with a 2-0 win over Marshall.

After jumping out to a 4-0 lead, the Panthers were in for a battle as the Tigers eventually pulled to within one point of the lead at 12-11 before an 8-2 run, featuring three kills by Kennedy Brady, put the set virtually out of Marshall's reach at 20-13.

The second set was a back-and-forth battle which saw the Tigers close to within one point a 19-18 before Three consecutive kills by Arianna Barrett turned that one-point lead into a four-point margin and Elizabeth Juhnke proceeded to serve out the match.

Barrett finished with seven kills without an error and Brady had nine kills while both recorded a pair of blocks. Amanda Burger had four kills in eight attempts and record 23 assists.

North St. Paul put together a strong service game, tallying nine aces, and North, consequently, sided out just 47 percent of the time as the ninth-ranked Polars handed the seventh-ranked Panthers a three-set loss.

North St. Paul never trailed in the opening set and the Panthers, after battling back to finally tie the score at 16-16, saw a pair of three-point runs put the opening stanza out of reach.

The second set saw just three tie scores but the only lead change came when a block by Macy Winter and Kennedy Brady gave the Panthers a 3-2 lead.

A service error by the Panthers would allowed the Polars to tie the score at 3-3 but Arianna Barrett recorded a kill and served two points for a 6-3 North lead and the Panthers remained out of front the rest of the way.

The match headed to a third set, where the teams traded the lead and were tie twice in the first four points before a four-point run allowed the Polars to take a lead they would not relinquish.

Elizabeth Juhnke's nine kills led North while Macy Winters hit .308 with five kills. She and Brady also had two blocks apiece.

Juhnke also had eight digs while Amanda Burger and Halle Wole each recorded seven.