Chapel Hill is blessed to have some serious experience at the helm leading our Junior High Baseball and Junior High Softball teams. Our Junior High Softball Coach may be new to our team, but he is no stranger to softball success and Chapel Hill.

Sports Editor The CHAAMP Lady Hawk volleyball team went 2-2 over their last four games. The Lady Hawks dropped a decision at home to East Texas Homeschool Sports, 3-1 (20-25, 26-24, 14-25, 19-25).

Sports Editor Wins don’t always come on the court or on the field. Sometimes, victories are displayed in areas other than the scoreboard.

Sports Editor The non-district schedule is usually designed to do one of two things – provide confidence going into the season or give a team stern tests going into the slate. Sometimes, a non-district game can do both.

Sports Editor The Rivercrest Rebels traveled to Smith-Wall Stadium to open their season against a new look Queen City Bulldog team with a new coach. Though the Rebels fell short of picking up a win – Queen CIty went on to win, 38-28 – there were several bright spots in the team’s opening game.

It has been a long time coming for the Lady Tiger volleyball program as they brought home their first tournament hardware in half a decade this past weekend. Mount Pleasant won 10 games to only two losses to take the Mt Vernon tournament championship knocking off five teams along the way.

Sports Editor It truly was a rivalry renewed as two teams just down the road from one another met on the football field for the first time in almost three decades. In the end, it was a back and forth affair between two teams looking to make returns to the playoffs.

Sports Editor On the volleyball court for the Mount Pleasant Lady Tigers, “the little things matter.” Under the system of new head coach Kristy Ciuba, everything from practice habits to scheduling and all the points that can be controlled within the team matters in a long season. The Lady Tigers will take on several playoff teams and contenders prior to the start of district play, a plan to prepare them for the race to a hopeful district crown.

Sports Editor Rivercrest volleyball head coach Sara Beth Upchurch is proving the adage of many happy returns. The Lady Rebels won her coaching debut earlier in August and Coach Upchurch, who previously coached at Rivercrest before a stint at North Lamar, is coaching several girls she coached in junior high who are now seniors.