The Mansfield Sr High Lady Tigers have closed shop on their 2019 volleyball season. The Lady Tigers faced many top-notch opponents and gave the competition a run for their money. They finished the season with a 17-14 total play record, 7-7 in conference play, and made it to the first found of State where they ended falling to Harding Academy with a close score of 3-2. Mansfield battled in 97 intense volleyball sets and ended with team totals of 819 kills, 217 aces, 198 blocks, 1205 digs, and 714 assists.
The Lady Tigers will be graduating six seniors, two of whom are starters. Vanessa Noblitt, Maggie Strunk, Janna Coplin, Madison Nelson, Abby Morgan, and Kara Sweeten will be moving on to bigger and better things. Noblitt ends her season with 28 kills, 40 aces, 18 blocks, 145 digs, and 632 assists. Strunk finishes with 7 kills, 24 aces, 2 blocks, 105 digs, and 39 assists. And Morgan walks away with 3 assists.
With five starters staying behind to carry their team into greatness next season, the Lady Tigers will return sophomores Haylee Helms, Sadie Roberts, and Kiara Thomas and juniors Danielle Lillie and Brooke Wright. Along with a stacked roster of ninth graders that will be moving up next year, Mansfield could very easily be a force to be reckoned with.
Helms wrapped up with 1 kill, 27 aces, 399 digs, and 3 assists. Roberts shuts down with 169 kills, 4 aces, 85 blocks, and 31 digs. Thomas says goodbye with 49 kills, 32 aces, 5 blocks, 196 digs, and 3 assists. Lillie ends the show with 124 kills, 31 aces, 8 blocks, 222 digs, and 3 assists. And Wright says adios with 371 kills, 54 aces, 87 blocks, 42 digs, and 2 assists.
