The 2022 volleyball regular season finished with a shot from a confetti cannon. Not only was the victory celebrating the end of the regular season, it celebrated Coach Kaylie Pyles’ 100th career victory as Mansfield’s varsity coach.
On Thursday night, Mansfield’s senior girls swept the Mulberry Yellow Jackets. It was significant in several regards. It wrapped up another conference championship for the senior girls team. It closed out the senior night for a group that has won two consecutive state titles. And, it was Pyles’ century win mark.
Pyles is in her fifth season as the MHS head volleyball coach. Last week’s win secured the coach a 20 win per year average for her short career. She has been a conference coach of the year and the class 2A coach of the year within that five year time frame.
Pyles celebrated with a banner and plaque presentation from the team and MHS athletic administration respectively.
The 100th win placed Mansfield into the number one seed going into the 2A West Senior District Tournament hosted by Mulberry on October 17 – 20.
Mansfield junior girls also took victory over Mulberry on Thursday. Despite the win, they were the three seed in their recent junior district tournament hosted by Mansfield on Saturday.
The junior girls worked their way through the tournament bracket but fell to conference champion Lavaca 2-0 in the finals.
