California and Texas ruled championship day at the 2017 JVA West Coast Cup, with Dallas-based Texas Advantage concluding the tournament with two Open division titles and Cali teams taking home gold medals in 18 Open, 16 Open, and 14 Open.



It took three hotly-contested sets for Tstreet 14 Carson to topple four-time tournament champion TAV 14 Black, 23-25, 25-23, 15-10. The two top-10 ranked squads met a day earlier in pool play, with TAV winning in straight sets, but with a particularly fierce presence at the net, Tstreet won when it really mattered.

The 15 Open West Coast Cup champ was TAV 15 Black. The No. 2-ranked team in the country met Coast 15-1 in the final, dispatching the California team 25-18, 25-20. The Texas squad lost only once the entire tournament, to Sunshine 15 Westside in the second day of pool play.

Wave 16 Brent pulled off an upset in the 16 Open championship match, taking down TAV 16 Black in three 25-17, 21-25, 15-13. Wave 16 Brent went undefeated on its way to the title, including beating eventual championship-match foe TAV in three in the second round of pool play.

"Nobody was expecting us to do this well," middle Morgan Lewis said, "and the fact that we just came out and went undefeated is really unbelievable."

TAV's second championship of the day came in the 17 Open division, where nationally No. 1-ranked TAV 17 Black won its fifth tournament title of 2017. The team coached by Ping Cao didn't lose a set all tournament, only letting its opponent score more than 20 points in five sets.

In the championship match, 17 Black matched up across the net from SG Elite 17 Roshambo. The 25-22, 25-21 victory for TAV marked SG Elite's first loss of the tournament.

Playing in its last tournament of the season before AAU Nationals, A4 Volley 18 Purple took home the gold medal in 18 Open. Led by setter Devon Chang and libero Julianna Reisinger, A4 won all of its pool play matches without losing a set. After playing two three-set matches in the gold bracket quarters and semis, the California squad defeated K2 18 Adidas Jota of Louisville, Tennessee, 25-19, 25-23 in the championship match.