GIRARD OH- The Girard Indians started off their season the right way beating the visiting Hubbard Eagles 40-30.
Sophia Griffith paced the Indians with 17 points.
Sophie Murphy led the way for the 0-1 Eagles with 13 points.
Girard took a 1st quarter 10-4 led and never looked back.
Girard will look to continue their winning ways Thursday as they travel to Jefferson. Hubbard looks forward to their home opener on Thursday as they host Niles.
CORTLAND OH- Lakeview continued their dominance of the NE8 with a sweep of Girard on Tuesday. They were two competitive sets out of three, but Lakeview always came out on top. (25-21 25-13 25-20).
Tara Lytle led the Bulldogs with 6 kills, 4 aces, 3 blocks, and 2 digs. Brooke Schnider put together a fantastic defensive night with 18 digs. Maggie Pavlansky had 10 assists.
For the Indians, Lauren Pallone had a match high 12 kills. Allison Durkin had 12 digs. Durkin, and Sophie Griffith split the setting each gathering 10 assists.
Girard travels to Poland on Thursday trying to bounce back. Lakeview looks to keep on winning as they host Struthers on Thursday.
NEW MIDDLETOWN OH- Last year the Tigers and Indians opened up the season facing each other, and it was a dominating 3-0 Springfield sweep. Girard flopped the script Monday night opening the season with a 3-1 win over the Tigers (25-12 25-17 23-25 25-17).
Girard completely dominated sets one and two. Springfield opened each set with some promise, leading set one 6-2, and leading set two 4-1. Those were the only leads the Tigers would acquire in those sets however as the power of the Indians offense was too much for Springfield to handle.
Set three seemed to be going the same way as the Indians marched to a 17-12 lead. The Tigers found some momentum however and stormed to an 8-0 run to lead 20-17. The Tigers then were able to come away with clutch plays in the final points to steal set three 25-23.
The Indians regrouped in set four and made another big rally to take a big enough lead to cruise to the match clinching 25-17 win in the set.
Lauren Pallone led the Indians with a double-double. She racked up 21 kills and 14 digs. She also served up 4 aces. Bree Latell also had a strong double double with 14 kills and 10 digs. She gathered 3 aces. Ali Durkin led the Indians in assists with 22, Sophie Griffith added 20.
Jacey Mullens led the Tigers with 8 kills, Madison Lesnsak was a force at the block with 8 rejections from the net. Sara Pontius had 6 blocks.
Springfield plays Tuesday the 25th against Lowellville, Girard plays Jefferson on the 25th as well.