The Granbury Lady Pirates played their final District 3-6A match at home Friday, Oct. 23, falling to the Arlington Martin Lady Warriors 3-0.<\/p>\n
The Lady Pirates (18-26, 8-6) dropped the first set 25-16 to the Lady Warriors (31-9, 11-3) but gave Martin a close call in set two.<\/p>\n
The visitors edged out Granbury 25-22, but the Lady Pirates came within two points twice down the last part of the set.<\/p>\n
Martin bolted ahead in set three and never looked back, ultimately winning 25-13 to secure the sweep. The Lady Warriors firmly hold the No. 1 seed from District 3 in the 6A-D1 playoffs.<\/p>\n
Senior Masyn Noe still recorded a respectable seven kills in the loss, bringing her district total to 80. She was followed closely by junior Maddie Caskey, who registered six kills. Senior Emery King rounded out the bunch with five.<\/p>\n
Also from the net, senior Amelia Feao registered a team-high three total blocks. That put her at 25 total blocks in district games this season, which also led the team.<\/p>\n
Senior Kyleigh Huggins (17) and junior Kyndal Cardwell (16) combined for nearly half of all the team\u2019s 74 digs on Friday. Cardwell tallied a whopping 216 in district games this season, while Huggins finished with 145.<\/p>\n
Huggins also ended the game Friday with a team-leading 13 assists, bringing her district total to a staggering 174. Junior Mallory Blum tallied 10 assists, putting her at 169 in district games.<\/p>\n
Senior Callie Preston paced the team in receptions with 15, just ahead of Caskey (14) and Cardwell (13). Preston ended district with 116 receptions, which ranked third-most on the team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Granbury Lady Pirates played their final District 3-6A match at home Friday, Oct. 23, falling to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":478816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[150,152,161691,151,161692,161690,12759,5670],"class_list":["post-478815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arlington","tag-arlington","tag-arlington-headlines","tag-arlington-martin-lady-warriors","tag-arlington-news","tag-district-3-6a","tag-granbury-lady-pirates","tag-playoffs","tag-volleyball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478815","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=478815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}