Local high school volleyball teams begin their area tournaments Thursday at three different locations. Adairsville will host the Area 6-AAA playoffs starting Thursday at 5pm, while Cartersville travels to Troup County for Area 5-AAAA. Woodland and Cass will compete in the Area 7-AAAAA playoffs hosted by Rome also opening play at 5pm.
All four local teams were in action Monday and/or Tuesday in their final tune-up matches prior to the beginning of their respective area playoffs.
Adairsville won a three-set match over Pickens County Tuesday, 12-25, 25-15, 25-17 before falling to Murray County in three sets 25-20, 23-25, 23-25.
Cass lost a pair of matches Tuesday, falling to Carrollton 18-25, 19-25 and to Hiram 18-25, 15-25. The Lady Colonels did sweep two matches on Monday, however, with a three-set win over Pickens, 25-17, 19-25, and 25-22 followed by a tough three-setter over North Murray, 26-24, 15-25, and 25-22.
Woodland lost in straight sets Tuesday at Kell, 25-8 and 25-16. The Lady Cats results with Paulding County were not made available.
Cartersville defeated Darlington Monday night in straight sets, 25-13, 25-14, and 25-19, and dispatched Central-Carroll in three sets Tuesday, 25-15, 25-14, and 25-10.
Tomorrow high school football returns to the county with all four local teams in action with all kickoffs scheduled for 7:30. Adairsville will travel to Calhoun, Cass will travel to East Paulding, Cartersville will host LaGrange and Woodland will travel to Paulding County. You can hear Cartersville take on LaGrange live on WBHF with Countdown to Kickoff presented by Peachtree Planning coming your way live from Scott’s Walk-Up Barbeque. An extra game will be provided online as the Johnny’s New York Style Pizza Game of the Week presented by Bartow Sports Zone. This week’s game will be Cass traveling to East Paudling and can be heard by going to bartowsportszone.com.