The player whose performance most profoundly determined the course of the 2011 Class 1A state volleyball tournament wasn't an acrobatic outside hitter or a towering middle blocker, nor one of those seniors whose leadership is forever being extolled by their coaches.

It was, rather, a table-setter: an unassuming 5-foot-6 junior setter from Colville with an uncanny ability to turn nearly every pass, whether perfectly placed or off-target, into a set her high-flying teammates can put away.

Just don't tell Leanna Carr she was -- unofficially, of course, since there is no such animal -- the tournament's most valuable player. She'll do what she always does. She'll pass off.

"My whole team is amazing," she said. "They make me look good."

She said that after accumulating 41 assists in the top-ranked Indians' thrilling five-game semifinal victory over No. 2-ranked King's, in what many observers considered the de facto championship game. She then topped that performance with 42 assists in the actual title match, a remarkable figure in that the Indians took out Castle Rock in three games, 26-24, 25-22, 25-21, for Colville's first state championship in a team sport.

Joellee Buckner had 16 kills and Jacy Vining 24 digs in the final to help offset the stellar play of Rocket middle hitter Tierney Uhlenkott and shifty setter Maddi Seidl, whose tips usually found an empty spot.

The highly-anticipated semifinal was a back-and-forth affair all the way into the fifth game andthen even more so. After back-to-back Carr aces helped the Indians jump out to a 6-0 lead in the final game, King's rallied back to take a 12-11 lead behind two stuff blocks and a kill by Caitlin Franzen.

Then Carr worked a little more magic.

After an Erin Little block tied the game, Carr got the go-ahead point on a nifty tip and then set Vining up for an emphatic kill as the Indians pulled out the 25-18, 24-26, 17-25, 25-17, 15-12 victory.

Vining, Buckner and Jessi Glidewell combined for 28 kills in the match. King's outside hitter Joclyn Kirton hammered 19 kills, but also had a few blocked right back at her by the 5-11 Little, who had 17 stuff blocks over the semis and finals.

"We have a lot of weapons," Colville coach Missy Bennett said.

And here's the scary part: A lot of them -- including Carr, Buckner, Vining and Glidewell -- are only juniors.