The third time was a charm for the GPS volleyball team this weekend. Finishing 2nd in their first 2 tournaments of the year, didn’t set well with the Bruisers.
Saturday at Anderson County in Knoxville, the GPS Bruisers beat up some good teams in winning the Tennessee Round-up.
GPS avenged an earlier lost last weekend in the championship game of the Tennessee Tandem by beating Green Brier 31-29, 25-18. GPS didn’t lose a match all day. It wasn’t until the championship game against an National Ranked Team (37th) Henry Clay (Lexington Ky) before they would give up their first game of the day.
GPS beat Henry Clay 25-19, 31-29, 16-14. Henry Clay is now 26-1. Heather Parman had another big match 21 kills, 12 assist, 20 digs, 2 aces, 2 blocks. Megan Givens had 32 digs, 3 aces, Whitney Hammond had 14 kills, 18 digs, 3 blocks.
"This was a huge win for GPS," GPS head coach Paul Brock said. "Beat a National Ranked team and The AA state champs from last year. Some of the girls get more kills, digs, and blocks than others, but the touches and spot serves that others do make this a total team effort. Semi’s and Finals were very intense matches with some big time plays made by all teams involved."
GPS is 31-4.
East Ridge advanced to the silver division championship and finished second.
GPS Scores:
GPS vs Portland 25-7, 25-14
GPS vs CAK 25-9, 26-11
GPS vs Webb 25-19, 25-17
GPS vs Anderson County 25-17, 25-21
East Ridge Scores:
ER vs Greenbrier - lost 15-25, 25-22, 11-15
ER vs Seymore - won 25-22, 25-20
ER vs Morristown West - lost 22-25, 25-21, 14-16
Silver Pool Play
ER vs Portland - won 18-25, 25-19, 15-4
ER vs Alcoa - won 25-20, 25-17
Silver Championship
ER vs Morristown East - lost 19-25, 21-25
ER Record - 25-17
East Ridge Individual Stats:
Takeisha Parham - 50 kills, 16 blocks, 3e aces, 63 digs
Meagan Arand - 35 kills, 7 aces, 91 digs
Meredith Brock - 15 kills, 2 aces, 65 digs
Dimon Darden - 33 kills, 1 block, 11 digs
Shalonda Fugh - 19 kills, 7 blocks
Haven Carter - 96 assists, 9 aces, 38 digs
Paige Atterton - 36 assists, 5 digs
Kelli Crawford - 5 aces, 48 digs
Holly Thompson - 6 aces, 33 digs
Bekah Bolis - 2 aces, 10 digs
GPS Individual Stats:
Jasmine Brown 29 assist, 7 kills, 18 digs, 2 aces, 2 blocks
Danna Myatt 4 kills, 5 blocks,
Katie Dorris 2 kills, 1 block, 14 digs
Tory Lewis 1 kill, 2 blocks, 7 digs
Mckenzie Stokes 3 digs, 1 ace