Volleyball wins home tournament

By DALE STUBBLEFIELD / Staff Reporter for the Southern Standard

Setter Mary Kate Fisher and the Lady Pioneer volleyball team came away with first place in their own annual midseason tournament this weekend. (Dale Stubblefield photo)

The Warren County Lady Pioneer volleyball team held their annual mid-season tournament on Saturday with Warren County coming away with the championship.

The Lady Pioneers won all 12 of their games on Saturday in six matches. Warren County won it’s pool with a perfect 4-0 record, while Chattanooga School for Arts and Science won their pool with a 3-1 record.

In the semi-final round Warren County defeated Grundy County 25-8, 25-8 to advance to the championship game against CSAS as CSAS slipped past Community High School 21-25, 25-17, 15-9.

Warren County won in a convincing manner over Chattanooga 25-22, 25-19 for the first place trophy.

“It was a very good day” said coach Franklin Fisher.

“The girls played very well and really dominated in pool play. Chattanooga School for Arts and Science had a real good showing. Coach Brandon Lowry has done an outstanding job with this team. We played them during the first part of the season and they have improved so much since that first meeting. This was a good outing for us as we have three straight district road games next week. We go to Siegel on Monday and travel to Cookeville on Thursday and Blackman on Friday. Hopefully this will give us a boost over the next two weeks before the district tournament get under way.”

For the Lady Pioneers, Ashley Malone and McKenna Rhea led the team with 57 points each over the weekend and Alysa Lankford added 51. Rhea led the team in kills with 36 Lankford had 22 and Mary Kate Fisher added 19. Fisher had 39 assists with Brittany Frazier added 37.

Bethany King came up with 14 digs and Rhea had 12. Aces on the day came from Malone and Lankford with 10 each. Brittany Frazier, Rhea and Fisher had nine each.