WCHS volleyball dropped by district duo

The Warren County High School Lady Pioneer volleyball team dropped a pair of district home games last week, losing against Blackman and Cookeville.

On Tuesday the Lady Blaze slipped past Warren County in four games. Warren County fell in the first game 24-26, but rebounded to win the second game 25-22 and then fell 19-25 and 20-25.

Warren County did an outstanding job at the net and pushed one of the top teams in the state to the limit. Alysa Lankford produced 18 points for Warren County, while Ashley Malone had 17 and Kara Youngblood added 15 points. Mary Kate Fisher and Brittany Frazier had eight assists each, while Lankford led the team in kills with six, Youngblood added four.

Against Cookeville on Thursday night the Lady Pioneers at their hands full with two big middle hitters for the Lady Cavilers. Warren County fell in three games 8-25, 14-25 and 21-25.

Fisher led the Lady Pioneers with 12 points. Malone had nine, Amy Hutton added eight and Youngblood had six points.. Lankford had six kills on the night with Fisher getting two, Lankford also came up with three blocks.

“We played a very good Blackman team toe to toe, but came up on the short end,” said coach Franklin Fisher.

“We were have been short handed this week, but I fell we did an excellent job against two very good teams. Cookeville had two of the best middle hitters I’ve seen together this year and they did a lot of damage in the middle. Overall I was very pleased with the way we handled both teams. We came away with a lot of positive efforts against both teams.

The Lady Pioneers are now 1-4 in district play and were scheduled to travel to play in the Red Bank Tournament on Saturday.