MSS sports teams were busy this past week.

The combined junior and senior boys soccer squad played its fourth game of the young season on Tuesday of this week, losing 6-1 to Valleyview from Kamloops.

The Panthers sport a 1-3 record, with their only win coming last week over Kamloops Christian School.

“We still need to work on basic skills, and some tactical aspects of the game,” coach Guy Dugas said. “We’re a very young team with only a couple of senior players. We’re trying to get the boys soccer program started again after not having a team last year, and struggling to field a team for a few years before that.”

The Grade 8 boys volleyball team, coached by Vince Kanigan, got their season off to a good start with a four-set victory over the Sa-Hali Sabres last Thursday in Kamloops.

This is the first time that MSS has fielded a boys volleyball side in almost a dozen years.

“Most of the players are pretty inexperienced,” Kanigan said, “but they’re learning fast.”

The Merritt Secondary School junior girls volleyball squad also saw action last Thursday, falling to both Westsyde and Brock in straight sets.

The team bounced back on the weekend to place third in their division and 23rd overall out of 48 teams at a big tournament at TRU in Kamloops.

“The team is young, with only two experienced Grade 10s,” head coach Shelly Moorhead said.

The Grade 8 girls volleyball team begins its season this Thursday in Kamloops.