{"id":8664,"date":"2022-09-22T10:44:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T15:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/?p=8664"},"modified":"2022-09-22T10:46:08","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T15:46:08","slug":"lady-tiger-volleyball-secures-first-district-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/lady-tiger-volleyball-secures-first-district-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Lady Tiger Volleyball Secures First District Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<h3>Early season tensions were finally eased on Tuesday evening as the Mount Pleasant Lady Tiger volleyball team came back from a 2-1 deficit versus Marshall to win their first district game since 2020 with game scores of 25-20, 22-25, 20-25, 25-22, and 15-13.\u00a0 The victory vaulted the Lady Tigers into a four-way tie for second place in the district with a challenging road test against district leading Hallsville on Friday.\u00a0 Head coach Kristy Ciuba continues to right the ship in her first season leading the Lady Tigers. &#8220;This was such a great win for the girls,&#8221; said an elated Ciuba. &#8220;Especially coming back and winning two sets in a row to close out the match. The girls did such a great job of competing fearlessly, attacking, and being aggressive instead of playing tight and safe at the end.&#8221;<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<h3>Aziyah Farrier and Paris Beard led the Lady Tiger attack with 19 kills apiece.\u00a0 Autiuana Johnson chipped in with 7 kills.\u00a0 Jordan Andrade continued her strong play at setter with 39 assists and Jordyn Hargrave led the team with 30 digs.\u00a0 The Lady Tigers (11-16, 1-1) will face a challenging road series with their next three matches at Hallsville (23-7, 2-0) Friday, at Longview (7-11, 0-2) on Tuesday, and at Tyler (15-15, 1-1) next Friday.\u00a0 Mount Pleasant will return to the friendly confines of Willie Williams Gym on Tuesday, September 27 versus Whitehouse.<\/h3>\n<h3><strong><br \/>\nBy Drew Barkley<br \/>\n<\/strong>Photos by John Whitten<\/h3>\n<div>\n<h3>Photo 1 &#8211; Jordan Andrade sets the ball.<br \/>\nPhoto 2 &#8211; Aziyah Farrier and Autiuana Johnson go up for the block.<br \/>\nPhoto 3 &#8211; Paris Beard hammers it down.<br \/>\nPhoto 4 &#8211; Jenna Cook launches a serve.<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Early season tensions were finally eased on Tuesday evening as the Mount Pleasant Lady Tiger volleyball team came back from a 2-1 deficit versus Marshall to win their first district game since 2020 with game scores of 25-20, 22-25, 20-25, 25-22, and 15-13.\u00a0 The victory vaulted the Lady Tigers into a four-way tie for second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}