CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Tuesday Volleys did not disappoint. Carroll defeated Gregory-Portland in five sets Tuesday night, pulling ahead in the UIL District 29-5A standings. Both G-P and Carroll entered the match 1-1 in district play tied for third.<\/p>\n
Carroll won the first two sets 25-21 and 25-23. Gregory-Portland responded, taking sets three and four 25-19 and 25-14. Carroll closed out the match in the fifth set, winning 15-12.<\/p>\n
In the first set, Kaci Jimenez recorded a kill on an outside set, giving Carroll a 6-5 lead. Emma Ross followed with a service ace to push the Lady Tigers’ advantage to 9-5. Gregory-Portland fought back, with Kalli Rowe recording a dig and Kloey Cantu setting Vivian Alexander for a tip kill, cutting the deficit to 18-13, but Carroll held on to win the set.<\/p>\n
Also in UIL District 29-5A, Flour Bluff stays undefeated after taking down Victoria East 25-7, 25-17 and 25-9.<\/p>\n
Veterans Memorial sweeps Calallen in non-district volleyball 2026<\/p>\n
In a non-district matchup at Veterans Memorial, the 5A Lady Eagles swept 4A Calallen 25-13, 25-18, and 25-17. Both teams entered the season ranked.<\/p>\n
Veterans Memorial (21-10, 1-1) controlled the first two sets, and added to it in the third when senior hitter Parker Malone broke through a block to put the Lady Eagles up 20-12. Calallen’s Braylee Meador answered with a kill down the line to close the gap to 22-15, but Veterans Memorial closed out the match. Junior setter Bayleigh Figueroa and Malone combined for a cross-court kill to reach match point, and Figueroa set Sarita Owiredu for the final kill to seal the sweep.<\/p>\n
The win was a bounce-back performance for Veterans Memorial after falling to district leader Flour Bluff last week.<\/p>\n
“Friday after the tough loss we really wanted to work on our side out game. Quick side outs, and I feel like we did a great job of that this game,” Figueroa said. “We didn’t let them go on too many runs like we did in Flour Bluff and just playing as a team instead of playing individually.”<\/p>\n
Veterans Memorial vs. Calallen Volleyball Stats
Vets Aces: Parker Malone 5, Bayleigh Figueroa 2
Calallen: M. Giles 2, M, Risinger 2<\/p>\n
Vets Digs: Lily Garza 14, Parker Malone 9
Calallen: A. Duke 12, Taylor Paredez 7<\/p>\n
Vets Blocks: Addison Gomez 3, Parker Malone 1
Calallen: B. Meador 1, T. Paredez 1<\/p>\n
Vets Kills: Parker Malone 15, Sarita Owiredu 5
Calallen: M. Geis 8, T. Paredez 7<\/p>\n
Vets Assists: Bayleigh Figueroa 16, Sofia Barrera 14
Calallen: L. Cecava 12, M. Risinger 9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas \u2014 Tuesday Volleys did not disappoint. Carroll defeated Gregory-Portland in five sets Tuesday night, pulling…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[13723,151588,6440,13394,155,157,156,5813,13395,151589,6658,151590,151591],"class_list":["post-437475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-corpus-christi","tag-13723","tag-bayleigh-figueroa","tag-calallen","tag-carroll","tag-corpus-christi","tag-corpus-christi-headlines","tag-corpus-christi-news","tag-flour-bluff","tag-gregory-portland","tag-kaci-jimenez","tag-kris-6","tag-parker-malone","tag-tuesday-volleys"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}