Starr's Mill

and McIntosh's volleyball teams had met four times during the season and

the area tournament. On Tuesday night, they met for a fifth time in the

area 4-AAAAA championships.

McIntosh made

the finals with wins over Newnan and Starr's Mill, while the Lady Panthers

had wins over North Clayton, East Coweta and Newnan to make it to the

finals.

Starr's Mill

started the match on Tuesday strong, taking a 9-3 lead in the first game.

The Lady Chiefs answered back with six straight pooints to tie the score.

The two teams were deadlocked at 11, before McIntosh scored four straight

points to win the first game. The Lady Panthers started strong agian in

the second game, leading 5-3 at one point and 9-6 at another. Once again

the score was tied at 11, but McIntosh proved too strong in the long run

and won 15-13.

The third game

was the most hotly contested. Starr's Mill jumped ahead 4-, but McIntosh

scored six straight points to lead, 6-4. Both teams then battled back

and forth, causing lead change after lead change. The two teams found

themselves tied at 15 points a piece. Allison Cheatham served up the winning

points for the Lady Chiefs and Megan Bartels had one final kill in the

tournament to secure the win.

Bartels, the

team captain for McIntosh, held a Georgia Volleyball State Top Ten record

for season kill percentage from last season, and hit another top ten record

with a match kill percentage of .727 as she started out game one with

four successive kills.

Both teams

will advance to the sectionals this Saturday in Kennesaw and could possibly

meet for a sixth time this season.

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