Mount Maunganui College and Otumoetai College made it a Western Bay clean-sweep as the TECT BOP Junior Secondary Schools Volleyball Championships came to an exciting end at ASB Arena on Sunday.
In the boys' division, both semifinals were epic battles going to overtime in the third set.
Mount Maunganui took the points when needed to beat Western Heights from Rotorua 2-1 while Tauranga Boys' College and Otumoetai College played out a tense match in the other semi.
Tauranga Boys' got off to a great start before Otumoetai came back hard to force the game to a deciding third set that could have gone either way. In the end, Tauranga Boys' took the crucial points to win 18-16 in the deciding set.
"The final was anybody's guess but it was Mount College who reacted better to the pressure of a final and took it out two sets to nil, 25-20, 25-16, to be the BOP Junior Secondary School champs," Volleyball Bay of Plenty administrator, Haydon Wright, said.