Rock Port Lady Jays started their volleyball season with the Fairfax Volleyball Tournament, which started with pool play on Tuesday and Thursday to determine the bracket for Saturday’s tournament. In pool play the Jays finished 5 and 1 losing only one set to Benton High School of St. Joseph.
There were eight teams in the tournament consisting of Nodaway Holt, Mound City, Benton, South Holt, East Atchison, West Nodaway, St. Joe Christian and Rock Port. Benton and East Atchison were both seated first coming out of pool play.
Rock Port played St. Joe Christian the second game of the tournament beating them in two sets 25-10, 25 -10. Next was East Atchison which went to three sets with EA winning the first set 22-25, and Rock Port taking the next two 25-22 and 25-18. This lead the Jays to the championship where they faced Benton. In the first set it was a battle taking the score to 30-32 with Benton winning. The final set Benton won 18-25.