High School Volleyball Playoffs Begin This Week

LG Opens Against Lake Belton; All Five County Teams Make Postseason

The La Grange volleyball team lost to Giddings in four sets Friday in a tie-breaker match for playoff seeding purposes.

Giddings won 25-18, 22-25, 25-15, 25-19.

La Grange and Giddings had tied for the District 20-4A title. By virtue of Friday’s win the Lady Buffs head to the playoffs and play fourth place finisher our of District 19, Gateway Prep.

La Grange (20-25), meanwhile, with that No. 2 seed, will play District 19 third place finisher Lake Belton (12-16) at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in Rockdale. The winner of that match plays the Cartage/La Vega winner in the second round.

• The Flatonia volleyball team defeated Ganado 25-9, 25- 14, 25-15 in their regular season finale last Tuesday and then fell to Bellville in three sets in a playoff warm-up Friday.

Against Ganado, Karli Siptak led the team in kills with 13 and Ellie Fike had six.

Ellie Fike led in digs with nine. Katherine Bruns had five aces. Macy Bonds had 21 assists.

Flatonia now has an overall record of 21-18 and plays Bloomington in the first round of the 2A playoffs and was set to play them Monday, Nov. 1 at 7 p.m. at Victoria East high school.

•The Schulenburg volleyball team lost to Poth in five sets Friday in a playoff warm-up match.

The Lady Horns now have a 32-10 overall record as they get set to open the 2A playoffs against Woodsboro Tuesday at 6 p.m. at Edna High School.

Against Poth, Tamara Otto had 45 assists. Jordan Sommer had 13 kills. Mackenzie Kunschick and Jessalyn Gipson each had 10 kills.

Kieryn Adams had 38 digs.

• Fayetteville and Round Top-Carmine have first round byes and await second round playoff opponents.