Draughn volleyball sweeps Patton to win WPC tourney title
Members of the Draughn girls volleyball team, which captured its second straight Western Piedmont 3A/4A Conference tournament championship on Wednesday in Valdese, huddle up in a file photo from Aug. 27. The top-seeded Lady Wildcats (22-10) defeated third-seeded Patton (19-5) in straight sets — scores were 25-19, 25-21, and 25-22 — as they nabbed their eighth win in a row and their third victory over the Lady Panthers this fall. No individual statistics were available from Wednesday’s match, which featured two of the three squads that tied for the WPC regular-season title. R-S Central was the other team that finished 12-2 in league play, with the Lady Hilltoppers ultimately earning the No. 2 seed in the WPC tournament after a tiebreaking drawing last weekend.
- LISA PRICE photos / THE PAPER
Draughn’s Macy Auton, pictured here in a file photo from Aug. 27, helped the Lady Wildcats advance to the finals of the WPC tournament by recording seven digs, five aces, and three assists in a three-set home win over eighth-seeded West Caldwell on Monday and 23 digs and three aces in a home sweep of fifth-seeded Hibriten on Tuesday.
- LISA PRICE / THE PAPER
Patton’s Soraya Hartman, pictured here in a file photo from Aug. 27, was one of the Lady Panthers’ key contributors during the WPC tournament. Patton swept sixth-seeded East Burke (7-16) on Monday in Morganton before topping second-seeded R-S Central in four sets on Tuesday at Draughn — where both the semifinals and finals were held — with Hartman recording 14 assists, nine kills, six digs, and three aces on Monday to go with 26 assists, 16 kills, 14 digs, and three blocks the next day.
- LISA PRICE / THE PAPER
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Members of the Draughn girls volleyball team, which captured its second straight Western Piedmont 3A/4A Conference tournament championship on Wednesday in Valdese, huddle up in a file photo from Aug. 27. The top-seeded Lady Wildcats (22-10) defeated third-seeded Patton (19-5) in straight sets — scores were 25-19, 25-21, and 25-22 — as they nabbed their eighth win in a row and their third victory over the Lady Panthers this fall. No individual statistics were available from Wednesday’s match, which featured two of the three squads that tied for the WPC regular-season title. R-S Central was the other team that finished 12-2 in league play, with the Lady Hilltoppers ultimately earning the No. 2 seed in the WPC tournament after a tiebreaking drawing last weekend.
- LISA PRICE photos / THE PAPER
Draughn’s Macy Auton, pictured here in a file photo from Aug. 27, helped the Lady Wildcats advance to the finals of the WPC tournament by recording seven digs, five aces, and three assists in a three-set home win over eighth-seeded West Caldwell on Monday and 23 digs and three aces in a home sweep of fifth-seeded Hibriten on Tuesday.
- LISA PRICE / THE PAPER
Patton’s Soraya Hartman, pictured here in a file photo from Aug. 27, was one of the Lady Panthers’ key contributors during the WPC tournament. Patton swept sixth-seeded East Burke (7-16) on Monday in Morganton before topping second-seeded R-S Central in four sets on Tuesday at Draughn — where both the semifinals and finals were held — with Hartman recording 14 assists, nine kills, six digs, and three aces on Monday to go with 26 assists, 16 kills, 14 digs, and three blocks the next day.
- LISA PRICE / THE PAPER
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