LAFAYETTE — Slidell and Chapelle played a tense volleyball set that included eight ties and five lead changes. But once one team went ahead, it never trailed from that point forward.

The match ended after the next set, when reigning state champion Slidell closed out a four-set semifinal win against upset-minded Chapelle, a 10th-seeded team that unexpectedly swept No. 2 Mount Carmel the previous night, on Friday at the Cajundome and set up an LHSAA Division I state finals rematch against top-seeded Dominican.

The teams split the first two sets, and Slidell junior outside hitter Emma Pippenger put down the kill that made the score 19-all in the third set, before senior middle blocker Cailyn Bergeron tipped the ball to an open spot on the floor for a lead that the reigning state champion T

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