Subzero's Serves You Right tournament was a smashing success.

Approximately 290 players on 32 teams took part, including 243 Subzero players, four adult teams and one Heat Yukon team.

The tourney took place Feb. 9-11 at Porter Creek Secondary School (PCSS), St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Secondary School and Yukon University.

The Star showed up to check out the finals Sunday afternoon at PCSS.

The men's 17U+ final featured Team Ian attempting to slay the Team Jeffrey Dragons.

Unfortunately for Team Ian, that didn't happen, as the Dragons took the competitive match two sets to none.

The Star spoke with Jeffrey McLean of Team Jeffrey Dragons after the match.

"It was a tight game. There were big swings coming from each side. Big blocks. It's fun because we all know each other. We've all played together before. So it's a friendly time to come out and play some competitive volleyball."

The score of the second game was 25-20. And the set before that was 25-19.

"It was a really back and forth game where we got a point and they got a point. We got a point, they got a point."

McLean said he felt bad that two adult teams ended up in the 17U+ final.

"This is a Subzero tournament and what we try to do is get adult teams out so that the boys can compete against teams that are better than them, because there's only one club at this age group. So when they go to compete at nationals, or provincials down in B.C., it's good if they've played against teams that are better than them, because they will play against teams that are better than them. So this is like a practice tournament for them."

McLean said this is one of two tournaments in the Yukon for the boys before they go down south.

"It's really for the boys. And what we do is we get some adult teams out and help coach the team that's playing over there now (Subzero 18 UB team)."

The Subzero Black 17UB team ended up losing in two sets to Team Kaelan 18UB in the third place match.

Team Kaelan triumphed 25-22 and 25-19.

"A bunch of the players on the team are going to Arctics and a bunch of them are on this Subzero team as well," explained McLean. "So first they'll go to Arctics in Palmer/Mat-Su, Alaska and after that there's provincials and then we're sending two teams to nationals, so our full squad can go to nationals."

McLean added, "We had a good time. Well organized. Lots of good volunteer help. We wouldn't have been able to do it without Andrea (Wilson of Subzero). Lots of parents came out."

In the 17+ Female final, AdaJay beat Team Titan in a ultra close, competitive match.

Adajay took the first set 25-23, but Team Titan bounced back with a 25-22 victory in the second set, setting up the winner-take-all final.

The score in the deciding set was 16-14 for Adajay.

The Star spoke with Erin King of Team AdaJay afterwards.

"We really picked up as a team together and we really came together at the end."

King cited communication as a key to their victory.

"And definitely going for every ball."

King said the rest of the tournament went pretty well for them.

"We only lost one set but other than that, it was good."

King was confident that her team would pull out the victory in the ultra-tight third set.

"We weren't doing so good in the second one but I thought we were going to win the third one."

The Star also spoke with Emiko Teramura of Team Titan, who put on an impressive display of acrobatics on the court as she fearlessly flung her body around.

"It was good. Super-fun. Nice to get all the ladies out again. We all played together in high school so it's fun to get to play again.

"It was a good fight in all three sets. Everybody tried their hardest. It was really good reffing, good players – played against all of them in high school, too."

Teramura indicated there really wasn't a key to Team Titan's success in the tourney.

"We just have fun, figure it out as we go.

"We had really good passing all weekend, which was really nice and not giving up. We were down by a lot."

Teramura said the rest of the tournament was good.

"I was coaching a team too and they did really well."

Teramura was coaching Chaos, a U15 boys team.

Teramura went away to school at the University of Victoria. When she came back, she saw some changes to the Whitehorse volleyball landscape.

"I'm really glad Subzero's grown so much. It's nice to come home to a much bigger community than when I left. We never had this when I was playing, so it's pretty awesome."

In other results, the Blizzards froze the Freezies to capture the 13U/14UG girls title.

In the 14UB/15UG/16UG/Faro division, the Arctic Aces triumphed over the Talkers and Blockers.

The Elite Volleyball 15UB took the 15UB/16UB boys title over the Frozone 16UB team.