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Orem • On Halloween night, the Class 2A championship volleyball match at Utah Valley University included a Delta cheerleading section gone old school with vintage uniforms from as far back as 60 years ago.

The Delta volleyball team also revisited the past.

It had been 20 years since the Rabbits' last championship, back in their heyday of winning eight state trophies in a 15-year span. This year's team put an end to that drought with a 25-21, 25-23, 22-25, 25-12 victory over Enterprise.

"We have such a great community and they're always there to help us. It's just awesome to have everyone here," said Delta's Sidney Springer, who belted 25 kills.

"We have eight state championships, tonight we made it nine,'" Springer said. "We've had a saying since I was a freshman to 'Break Eight.' Tonight we destroyed it."

Springer, consistently able to put hard balls down at sharp angles, was the focal point for the Rabbits' offense all year.

On championship night, Springer and fellow outside hitter Brooklyn Henrie combined for 38 putaways while junior middle Tatum Stanworth had five kills, three blocks and a pair of aces.

The match was a rematch on a couple of levels. Delta (24-6) and Enterprise (18-9) are in the same region and also played in last year's Class 2A state championship, won by the Wolves.

"That was all the motivation we needed to have. That feeling was awful and we didn't want to have that feeling again," Springer said. "We worked our butts off so we didn't have to. We were not going to let them get it."

Led by Jaslyn Gardner's 16 kills, Enterprise also got 13 winners from Jessica Farnsworth in what coach Brian Phelps characterized as one of his team's best efforts.

"We started playing good about three weeks ago. We've been struggling to find ourselves; we don't have any kid at any same position as a year ago," Phelps said. "But they're very good. They beat us handily the first two times."

Enterprise did force a fourth set after breaking a 22-all tie in the third with three straight points.

"I didn't want to go to a fourth game. But all year they've shown that, when they get down, they can get back up," said Delta coach Deb Jenkins, who was on three Rabbits' championship teams in 1982, 1984 and 1985 — when current Morgan coach Liz Wiscombe was a player.

And Springer did come out punching in the fourth. In getting out to a 4-1 lead, it was the Rabbits' ace who scored three of those points on kills.

"She's amazing, not only athletically but just an outstanding young lady," said Jenkins of Springer. "She's got it all."