North Bend’s volleyball team traveled to Marist over the weekend for a 12-team tournament and finished third, losing to eventual champion Burns in the semifinals. Burns took the best-of-three match 25-8, 25-8.

“We came out very tentative and they were relentless,” said Bulldogs coach Les Willett. “We didn’t have many attack attempts in either game.”

North Bend reached bracket play by going 2-1 in pool play. The Bulldogs started out by easily defeating Class 5A North Eugene 25-11, 25-15. But the North Bend team was overwhelmed by a tall Santiam Christian squad, as the Eagles topped the Bulldogs 25-14, 25-19. North Bend finished out pool play with Cascade and had a strong showing, sweeping 25-9, 25-12.

That sent the Bulldogs into the eight-team bracket play seeded fourth, and North Bend drew Creswell to start. The Bulldogs used strong serving to roll to a 25-8, 25-18 sweep.

“We were able to serve tough and put pressure on them,” said Willett.

That set up the two-game semifinal loss to Burns, the team that went on to defeat Marist in the final to win the tournament.

Since North Bend and Santiam Christian, which lost to Marist in the other semifinal, didn’t play a third-place match, they shared third in the tournament.

Alexandra Mateski led the Bulldogs with 38 kills and 33 digs throughout the tournament. Haley Dunham added 18 kills and 30 digs, while Katie Banta tallied 62 assists and 18 digs. Ashley Horlacher and Camille Deming both chipped in with 27 digs.

“This was a good tournament overall,” said Willett.

The 4-2 Bulldogs return to Far West League play tonight with a home match against 2-4 Sutherlin.

BOYS SOCCER

Pirates, Sutherlin tie

Pacific and host Sutherlin tied 1-1 Monday.

Jarrid Doffing scored the goal for Pacific on an assist by Pete Swenson in the 21st minute.

Sutherlin tied the score in the 72nd minute, Jose Juarez from Jesse Perez.

GIRLS SOCCER

Sutherlin edges Glide

Sutherlin beat host Glide 1-0 in a Far West League match on Monday.

Stephanie Vandehey scored the goal for Sutherlin.

Bruins beat UVC

Louie Deraita, Ashley Juarez and Sonia Gonzalez scored goals as Brookings-Harbor beat host Umpqua Valley Christian 3-1 on Monday.

The Bruins improved to 8-0-2, at least temporarily moving in front of South Umpqua, which plays Coquille today and can move back into a tie for first place with a win.

The Monarchs dropped into a tie for third with Sutherlin at 6-3-1.

CROSS COUNTRY

Tigers sweep titles

Bandon swept the team titles at the Myrtle Point Invitational on Saturday.

Bandon’s boys edged Brookings-Harbor 41-40 as the teams combined for the top seven individual places.

Brandon Lemerande won the 5,000-meter race in 18 minutes, 20 seconds. Brookings-Harbor runners Kevin Sthen, Gage Northrup and Ray Mazyck finished second through fourth, followed by Bandon’s Jared Watkins, Isaac Taylor and Gerald Davis.

Bandon’s girls beat Brookings-Harbor 42-52 in the team race.

Brookings-Harbor’s Ally Manley won the race in 19:26 and was followed more than a minute later by Pacific’s Wren Carter (20:34) and Myrtle Point’s Maegen Miranda (21:06).