The Middle School Volleyball team faced New Hope in their season opener. The team played hard in the first game, but was overcome by New Hope's serving and lost 15-25. Bailee Barrilleaux and Ashlyn Anderson served up two aces each to help the Raiders win the second game 26-24. In the third game Victoria Fennell served strong with three aces and AC Brown led the Raider defense in serve reception to win 16-14.

I can not tell you how proud I am of our girls!  Westminster was a tough place for us last year, and it started out that way again yesterday.  They really pulled together and rallied back and it was excited to see.  I am trying to keep complete stats this year, only the positives and hitting percentages.  I will try to send these out at the end of each week.  Again, great job girls!!

The Raiders lost to Central on the road despite a great team effort. (21-25, 11-25) The Raiders played well limiting serving errors to six for the match, and acing the Colts six times. Abby Knowling and Claire Bruce contributed three kills apiece to the Raider total of nine team kills. Bailee Barrilleaux and Ashlyn Anderson both helped the team with a 100 percent serving record.

The 5-6th grade Lady Raiders volleyball team dropped the opening match of the season against St. Johns in a tightly contested 3 set match.  The Raiders won the first game 25-19 on the strength of some excellent service points.  St. Johns came back and won the second and third 25-17, 15-10 to win 2 games to one. 

Coach Leila Nabors returned to the Raiders sideline after being away for several years.  Nabors coached all three Randolph teams while serving as physical education instructor.  She also coached at the colleigiate level.  She now is volunteering her time with her daughter Fran's team of twenty girls.  It's great to have her with us again.

The Lady Raiders bounced back to win the 2nd match in their initial tri-match of the season, besting Holy Spirit 2-0. 

Randolph beat Westminster Christian Academy Thursday in two games at home. (28-26,27-25) The Raiders led much of the match with strong offense, slamming thirteen team kills on twenty-one attempts. Abby Knowling contributed eight kills and Victoria Fennell bolstered the team with two kills and six service aces. Katy Shoemake added to the Raider's team total of fourteen aces with five of her own and served up seventeen points on nineteen serves with no errors. The Raiders struggled with serve receive errors at times in the match, but were able to regain control with help from Maddie Kofskey with one hundred percent serve receive success and Fennell who passed seven of eight serves effectively. In game two Ally Below served an ace for the go-ahead point and then served up the match winning point for the Raiders in their win over Westminster.

This past weekend the Randolph "Runnin Raiders" began their 2010 campaign in Florence, AL at the Brooks XC Invitational.  Both Randolph Varsity teams competed in the 1a-4a division race. 

On a tough course and really warm morning, the teams raced to good times and great places. 

Lauren Hagood (11th) paced the Lady Raiders finishing 3rd overall and helping our team finish 2nd (behind state champion Rogers High), only losing to Rogers by 12 pts.  

Hudson Robb (12th) out raced Evan Pardi (PJPII Catholic High) and his teammate Leland Collins to take the individual title.  The Raiders beat Hatton High, PJPII Catholic High, University of Nasville High, and many others.  

Please see below for more impressive times and places.  

**Randolph Cross Country team will be competing again at the PJPII Catholic Falcon Invitational this Saturday, Sept 4th at the John Hunt Cross Country Park (Huntsville, AL).  Gooooo Raiders!  

Lady Raiders
Lauren Hagood 3rd  21:51
Brooke Sherman 7th 22:13
Kristyn Wilson  10th  22:35
Meghna Katta  12th  23:26
Harper Lanier   21st  25:12
Catherine Keller 32nd  27:06
Sage Jordan     40th   27:58
Priya Katta        47th  28:34


Raiders
Hudson Robb   1st   16:58
Leland Collins  3rd   17:55
Harrison Hunter 5th  18:41
Aaron Merijanian 6th 18:58
Zach Haught     8th   19:00
Branson Teachey 10th 19:08
Kevin Yang       13th   19:24
Will Teachey    14th   19:26
Michael Gross  18th   19:46
Andrew Beckman 20th 19:49
Lars Arney        31st   20:25
Clark Ingram     33rd  20:38
Robert Walker   42nd  21:02
Jordan Barrilleaux 69th  22:31
Dan Gillis          82nd   23:09
James Park       93rd    23:37
Fernando Turpin 127th  27:18
 
See more results at http://al.milesplit.us/meets/75386

The Randolph Middle School Cross Country team had their first meet this past Saturday in Florence, AL at the Brooks XC Invite. 
On a tough course, hot day, racing in a race that had some teams that consisted of 9th graders, the Raiders were able to pull out a 2nd place team finish (both boys & girls) in the 1a-4a size school division.  They lost to Athen Bible & Rogers High (respectively)

The Lady Raiders were led by a first place finish from Megan Thurber (7th) in the 1a-4a division. 
The Lady Raiders finish places and times were as follows:

Megan Thurber  1st  14:23
Mary Grace Hash  6th 14:47
Sarah Beth Moshier 12th 15:13
Windham Hunter  18th 15:59
Elise Greco          21st   16:19
Hope Smalley     23rd    16:22
Angel Childress   26th    16:38
Emory Johnson    40th    18:37


Jake Teachey (7th) was the lead Randolph XC Raider, with a finish place of 8th overall.

Jake Teachey  8th   13:12
Fisher Lucas    10th  13:16
Felix Motzet     14th  13:33
Garrett Hagood 15th  13:45
Matthew Palermo 23rd  14:11
Alexander Young  38th  15:12
Beau Mitchell         43rd  15:31
Roman Hawrych      46th   15:43
Brandon Smith         72nd  17:13
Logan Rogers            87th   19:23

More results from this meet can be found at  http://al.milesplit.us/meets/75386

The Runnin Raiders compete again this weekend at the PJPII Catholic Falcon Invitational at John Hunt Park (Huntsville, AL).  Goooo Raiders! 

The MS Volleyball Team beat Madison County Middle School in two games at MCMS (25-17,25-23).Randolph topped MCMS in part due to tough serving with 18 team serving aces. Victoria Fennell led the Raiders with ten serving aces on thirteen attempts. Hannah Page Clayton contributed two serving aces and scored two kills on two hitting attempts. Abby Knowling added two serving aces for the Raiders and led the offense with three kills on five attempts with no errors. The Raiders minimized offensive errors with only three hitting errors on fourteen attempts with five kills. The Raiders play next at home on Thursday Sept.2 against Athens Bible and Mountain Gap Middle School at 4:00. The Blue and Gray teams will both play at the same time on two courts.