POST FALLS — They have five new starters from last year, but it was the same result Thursday night:

The Post Falls Trojans are 5A Inland Empire League champions in volleyball for the second straight season.

Junior Ashley Jibby had nine kills and 12 digs as Post Falls defeated Lake City 21-25, 25-18, 25-18, 25-21 at The Arena to finish 6-0 in league play for the second straight season.

“I think it says a lot for our program, and it’s pretty exciting, considering we lost six seniors,” fourth-year Trojan coach Willow Hanna said. “I think certainly it (repeating) was a possibility. We’ve got some really athletic kids, and we’ve been able to coach them for a while. This group of juniors have been playing together for a while. But when you’re introducing eight kids to the varsity level ... we had a lot to learn. That’s the hope; you don’t want to go one and done.”

Junior Allison Meehan added eight kills, 16 assists and three aces for the Trojans (20-1), who warmed up after a sloppy first game — as has been their wont all season — and started killing the ball with regularity.

Junior Tori Bertsch, the lone returning starter from last year’s team which qualified for state for the first time since 1991, had 21 assists for Post Falls, which has just two seniors on the roster. Jazmin Chavez had 12 digs and four aces, and Savannah Hill had eight kills and five aces.

Post Falls totaled 15 aces, but also had 18 service errors.

“We have a little bit of trouble with serves once in a while, but tonight it was horrible,” Hanna said. “We missed way too many serves and, quite frankly, gave them too many opportunities.”

Post Falls had six aces and six missed serves in the first game. Jibby had five kills in the second game. Hill had four kills and two aces in the game, both aces coming during a 6-0 run that broke open the game.

Meehan had four of her kills in the third game. In the fourth game, she had three aces in a 6-0 run which broke a 15-all tie. Jibby’s kill from the back row on a downball ended the match.

Junior Jennifer Schuman had 12 kills — six in the fourth game — and 10 digs for Lake City (6-7, 2-2), which has just three seniors on its roster. Camille Rounds had 19 assists, and Madi Farrell had two blocks and two aces.

“We’re getting better,” Lake City coach Bret Taylor said. “We’ve seen Coeur d’Alene and Post Falls (the Timberwolves still have their two league meetings left with Lewiston, also 2-2 in league), and we know we can play with both of those teams. We just have to get rid of our unforced errors.”

On Saturday, Lake City travels to Kalispell, Mont., to play Glacier, and Post Falls visits Moscow.