From Assistant Bonnie Keepes: The Lady Aces hosted Edwards County Thursday night at the grade school gym. Anyone there will tell you the atmosphere was electric. The girls put on a show with very aggressive and scrappy play on both sides of the net. MTC lost the first set 22-25. They had the momentum for much of the second set and took it 27-25. The last set came down to the wire with EC taking the win 26-24.
The coaches were very happy with the play, it was a loss that certainly didn’t feel like one after the huge strides made from the Carmi match.
Stats for the night were Sarah McCorkle 3 aces, 9 digs, 1 kill, 1 block kill, and 19 assists. Madi Stevens 6 digs, 8 kills, 5 block kills, Jayla Johnson 14 digs, 5 kills, Maycee Randall, 5 kills, 5 block kills, Kyleigh Smith 1 dig, 4 kills, Tenley Davis 23 digs, 2 assists, Lyla Keepes, 2 aces, 2 kills, 6 digs.
The JV match didn’t go as well for the Aces.
The girls did well in serve receive, but had a high error rate leading to a lopsided defeat. Edwards County won 12-25, 13-25. The Edwards County team played clean, and had excellent defense.
Player stats Mattie Armstrong 4 digs, 8 assists, Kinley Harris 7 digs, 1 kill, Leah Lewis 8 digs, 4 kills, Gracee Haggard 1 dig, 1 kill, Avery Coston 1 dig, 3 kills, Zoie Randall 1 dig, 1 kill, Alivia Peach 6 digs, Mylee Farmer 3 digs, Mercedes Dillard 5 digs, 1 assist.
The Freshman team showed hustle and improved some from Monday, but EC had some strong attackers and came up with the win 25-17, 25-21.
Saturday the Varsity team will head to Fairfield for all day tournament play. They will start out the day at 8:30 against a very experienced Norris City team.