NORTH BEND — Siuslaw wasn’t in a sharing mood on the final night of the Far West League volleyball season.

The Vikings swept host North Bend 26-24, 25-19, 25-18 to wrap up the league title. The Bulldogs would have forced a tie for the crown with a victory, and instead will play Douglas at a neutral site Monday to determine the league’s No.2 and No. 3 seeds for the Class 4A playoffs.

“We didn’t want to share it,” said Siuslaw senior Shelbey McClellan, who had an amazing offensive night for the Vikings.

McClellan finished with 27 kills in the match, and perhaps more impressively, had just two hitting errors in 60 swings.

“I love setting her,” said fellow Siuslaw senior McKenzie Mumpower, who had 46 assists. “When I need the ball put away, I go to Shelbey no matter where she is on the court.”

McClellan played a vital role in a first-game comeback for the Vikings and put Siuslaw in control in the third game with a big hitting run. The rest of Siuslaw’s team played amazing defense, tipping or digging up hitting attempt after hitting attempt by the Bulldogs.

“Throughout the year, defense wasn’t the strong point of our game,” McClellan said. “Our defense stepped up tonight.”

With McClellan in the front row much of the night, North Bend kept Siuslaw’s other outside hitter, Seabre Church, busy on defense. Church finished with 24 digs, as well as six kills.

“Seabre was playing phenomenal defense,” said Siuslaw coach Amy Peterson.

Siuslaw’s defense was the difference in the match, Peterson said.

“That was by far the best we’ve played all season,” she said. “I feel North Bend played us really well. Defensively, we were really strong.”

With North Bend’s defense also playing well, the match was marked by many long rallies with impressive saves. Siuslaw won the majority of those rallies.

North Bend coach Les Willett gave credit to the Vikings.

“They dug us so well,” Willett said. “We got to the point that we got a little scared. We quit trying to win and started trying not to lose.

“I told the kids I hope they take it to heart we have to be more aggressive.”

But Willett didn’t want to take anything away from the effort of the Vikings.

“That’s a great team,” he said. “They deserve it.”

The key to Siuslaw’s win probably was the first game, when the Vikings rallied from deficits of 21-17 and 23-21.

McClellan pulled Siuslaw even at 23 with a pair of kills, and gave the Vikings the lead for good at 25-24 after a powerful kill by North Bend’s Alexandra Mateski.

The game ended when North Bend couldn’t handle a hard serve by Leigh Aurich.

“When you’re down in the first game, it’s hard to come back in the other games,” Mumpower said.

The Vikings didn’t have to worry about that.

Siuslaw trailed briefly in the second game before taking the lead for good on a four-point service run by Stacie Voogd that included an ace and two kills by McClellan sandwiched around a tip for a kill by Jenna Hanslits.

North Bend had a 5-2 lead early in the third game before McClellan had six kills in a span of seven Siuslaw points. The Vikings led the rest of the way.

Mateski tried to pull North Bend back from a 24-15 deficit with a kill and back-to-back aces, but Hanslits ended the match with another tip for a kill — her ninth of the match.

The Vikings then celebrated as a team. It was their first title since winning the Sky-Em League in 2005 and first Far West League crown since 2001, the year before they shifted to the Sky-Em for a four-year time block.

“It’s amazing,” said Mumpower. “Shelbey and I have been playing on the same team for six years. That was our career highlight.”

Mateski finished with 19 kills, nine digs and four aces for North Bend, while Dunham had 11 kills and 15 digs. Katie Banta had 30 assists and 11 digs and libero Ashley Horlacher had 14 digs.

Notes: The winner of Monday’s match  gets a first-round bye in the Class 4A playoffs, but then must travel to Greater Oregon champion LaGrande.The loser has a road match Wednesday against North Valley, the third-place team from the Skyline League, with the winner of that match traveling to the Sky-Em champion, either Marist or Sisters, the No. 1 team in the most recent coaches poll. Siuslaw hosts the loser of the Marist-Sisters match in the second round on Nov. 1.