Jackson Volleyball Tournament 2 preview
The second edition of the Jackson volleyball tournament will be this weekend, and the field will be just as challenging as the previous one. It might be a little more challenging for Advance to win. Class 5 Helias has decided…
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Continue ReadingThe second edition of the Jackson volleyball tournament will be this weekend, and the field will be just as challenging as the previous one. It might be a little more challenging for Advance to win. Class 5 Helias has decided to make an appearance this weekend. Helias will be my choice to run through the field and win it all. Two pools of six teams each and each team will play 4 of those teams in each pool. The top 4 in each pool will advance to gold, and the bottom two will move to silver. Take a quick look at each pool and how I think they will finish.
Jackson high school puts on tournaments like no other high school I’ve been to in a long time. Congrats to Jackson high school for doing this twice in one year.
Pool 1 (tossup pool)
Jackson 14-2
Incarnate Word 3-3
Arcadia Valley 9-6
Lesterville 14-5-1
St Vincent 7-9-1
Sikeston 0-9
Pool 2 (toughest pool)
Helias 15-1-1
Advance 16-0-1
Ste. Genevieve 9-1
Farmington 5-9-2
Perryville 8-7-1
Poplar Bluff 3-10-3
I see Pool 1 ending pretty close to this way, but I believe the top 4 could be interchangeable. Lesterville has to play Incarnate Word, and both lost to St. Pius. Lesterville lost 1-2, and Incarnate Word lost 1-3 to St. Pius. Lesterville lost to Arcadia Valley 1-2 already this year. Jackson beat St. Pius 3-1. You got a familiar opponent in 3 of these teams in St. Pius with only Jackson winning, but the other two didn’t fall by much.
Pool 2, I think, will be all Helias. Advance is an excellent ball club; I don’t see them handling what Helias has. Ste. Gen lost to Windsor, who beat St. Pius, who lost to Advance 2-1. I don’t see the other three teams in being able to compete with the top 3 in the pool.
If the teams finish the way I have them here, the Gold bracket quarterfinals will look as follows.
Jackson
Vs
Farmington
Advance
Vs
Arcadia Valley
Helias
Vs
Lesterville
Incarnate Word
Vs
Ste. Genevieve
Semifinals
Jackson
Vs
Advance
Helias
Vs
Incarnate Word
Finals
Helias
Vs
Advance