Published: August 19, 2009 11:57 pm      

Volleyball action: Wolfe City, Commerce, Cumby, Lone Oak

COMMERCE — The No. 7 state-ranked Commerce Lady Tigers are 8-1 on the volleyball season after topping a scrappy Lone Oak team, 27-25, 25-16, 25-18, Tuesday night.

"The girls passed really good during our rallies,” said Commerce coach Kelsey Hall. “Usually when we pass good, we hit good."

The Lady Tigers came out on fire and built a commanding lead behind the serving of Chaney Moreland who served up eight points.

Lone Oak rallied to take a 25-24 lead. After a sideout and two quick points Commerce took the win, 27-25.

Game two started out the same way as the first but the Lady Tigers kept up the pressure and held the lead to take a 25-16 win.

Game three had both team trade points until the Lady Buffalos took a 12-11 lead behind strong serving.

After a sideout and seven straight points by Caitlin Yoakum, the Lady Tigers held a 18-12 lead.

"We served good this game,” Hall said. “We had a couple of runs while we were serving and it really paid off in the end."

Lone Oak was able to bring the score back to 21-18 and make the game another close one, but a run of four nice hard serves by Chaney Moreland finished the game at 25-18.

The Lady Tigers will head to Wolfe City today for pool play against Saint Jo, Trenton and Wolfe City JV. Lone Oak will compete in the Eustace tournament.

Brooke Hinson led Lone Oak with 11 digs to go with three kills.

Annie Brumit and Chelsea Lyday both finished with five digs and Alyson Hicks and Melanie Brand both added four digs for Lone Oak. Brand finished with three kills and Ashton Hale added four assists.

Lone Oak captured the junior varsity match, 11-25, 25-9, 25-9.

Commerce won the freshman contest, 20-25, 25-19, 25-13.



Wolfe City tops Cumby

WOLFE CITY — Wolfe City extended its volleyball season record to 5-1 with a 25-14, 25-18, 25-23 victory over Cumby on Tuesday.

Lindsey Wilkinson led the Lady Wolves with eight kills and four service aces.

Kealey Gaffney added five kills and Kelly Madrigal put away two kills for Wolfe City.

Setter A.J. Lake managed 14 assists.

Stephanie Young paced Wolfe City’s defense with seven digs, Gaffney managed five digs and Chasity Shive added three digs.

Savanah Neal topped Cumby with 10 kills to go with four blocks, five assists, two digs and two aces.

Valerie Partridge served for six Cumby points and Laura Oviedo and Kailee Sartin served for three points each. Oviedo put away three kills. Demi Newom added three digs as Cumby dropped to 2-2 for the season.

Cumby plays again in the North Hopkins tournament starting today.