Dolores outlasts Akron, then falls to Vail Christian as its state run ends
The Bears won an elimination match in four sets Friday morning and lost to the No. 3 seed in straight sets that evening at the Denver Coliseum, closing the season 25-4.
Dolores’s volleyball season ended Friday night in Denver, one win after it was nearly over.
The seventh-seeded Bears beat No. 8 Akron 3-1 on Friday morning, November 13, in the first round of the elimination side of the Class 2A state tournament at the Denver Coliseum. They came back from losing the first set 24-26 to take the next three, 25-23, 25-19 and 25-19, according to the Colorado High School Activities Association’s bracket.
That kept them alive for one more match. At 6:30 p.m. they met No. 3 Vail Christian, which had also dropped to the elimination side, and lost 21-25, 29-31, 23-25. The second set went to extra points before Vail Christian closed it out.
In the double-elimination format a second loss ends a team’s tournament, so the evening defeat ended Dolores’s season. The Bears finish 25-4. Two of those four losses came this week in Denver: the five-set defeat to No. 2 Merino on Thursday night, reported here, and Friday’s loss to Vail Christian.
Vail Christian moves on to play Wiggins at 9:30 a.m. Saturday for a place in the final four. The 2A championship is set for 6 p.m. Saturday.
Set scores are from CHSAA’s 2A state bracket. MaxPreps carries the Akron match and the Vail Christian match; every Dolores result this season is on the Current’s scoreboards page.
Sources: CHSAA 2026 Class 2A girls volleyball state bracket, read November 14, 2026; the Current’s scoreboards feed, which carries MaxPreps results