Lady Pilots Start the Season Off Rough with One Win and Four Losses

Pictured is the River Pilots 2020 varsity volleyball team.
The very young River Pilots volleyball team lost their first 4-matches, before beating Bellaire Big Reds in 5-sets to open the 2020 volleyball season.
In their latest match against Bellaire, there was plenty of fireworks with Katie Refener leading the charge with 16-points with 10 service aces, while Kiley Wagnild supplied 14-points with 3-aces, and Paige Barkes providing 10-points with 7-aces to lift River to an exciting 5-set win by the scores of 25-22, 25-23, 22-25, 18-25 and 15-5 Sept. 2.
Barkes also added 11-digs and Wagnild 5, while Emily Taylor stuffed the statistic sheet with 9-points with 4-aces and 21-digs. Kami Todd provided 4-points with 2-aces, while also stuffing the stat sheet with 7-assists and 2-digs. Hannah Raper provided 4-points with 2-aces, 7-digs, 5-assists and 4-kills.
On Sept 1, the Lady Pilots left it all on the floor, losing in 4-sets, 25-14, 25-21, 17-25 and 25-15. Refener scored a team-high 11-service points with 6-aces, while Taylor and Raper combined with 17-points, with 6-aces, 8-kills, 2-blocks, 5-assists and 22-digs.
The Pilots also gave the Shadyside Tigers all they could handle Aug. 29, but fell in 3-straight 25-11, 25-19 and 25-16, with Raper leading the 5-points with an ace, while dishing out 5-assists, and posting 1-assist, 1-kill and 1-block. Wagnild followed with 4-points and 3-digs, while Rilyn Haught blocked 4-shits and blasted 2-kills.
In their match with Frontier Aug. 27, the Lady Cougars kept the Pilots at ball throughout and defeated River in straight sets, 25-16, 25-9 and 25-8 with Barkes leading the way with 3-points, with 2-aces and 2-digs. Raper provided 2-points with 1-ace, 3-kills, 6-assists and 6-digs, while Taylor added 2-points with aces, 12-digs and 1-kill.
To open the season against Union Local, the young Pilots, lost 3-straight sets 25-8, 25-4 and 25-4 Barkes leading the charge for the Pilots with 2-points, 1-aces and 1-dig, while Taylor secured 1-point, 5-digs and dished out 2-assists.