Ava Lady Bears Finish Regular Season Play
Doug Berger/Herald Mallory Melton goes up for a spike against Cabool in the Lady Bears final regular season game.
The Ava Lady Bears volleyball squad fell to a strong Cabool squad in their final regular season game last Tuesday, 3-0.
The Lady Bears finished their regular season with a 14-13-3 record.
Cabool came into the game with a 26-3-4 record.
The Lady Bulldogs went out to an early lead in the first set and were soon up 8-1, and put together some five point runs to pull away to a 25-13 set victory.
The second set saw Ava scoring the first two points, but Cabool came back with eight and later followed up with a 10 point run to capture a 25-9 set win.
The final set started out with Ava trailing by just one, 6-5, before Cabool strung together six to stretch their margin. The Lady Bulldogs would score the final seven points to win the set 25-11.

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Addison Croston digs out the volleyball against Cabool.

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Lady Bears Hannah Evans attacks the center of Cabool’s defense.