{"id":19058,"date":"2025-09-22T12:56:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T17:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=19058"},"modified":"2025-09-22T12:58:02","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T17:58:02","slug":"weekend-volleyball-tournaments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/sports\/volleyball\/19058-weekend-volleyball-tournaments\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Volleyball Tournaments"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p>Effingham Hearts won the Charleston Invitational Volleyball tournament on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Effingham scored pool play wins over Carbondale 20-25, 25-17, 15-9; Okaw Valley 25-12, 25-11; and Mattoon 25-17, 25-22.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Hearts then matched up with the Wooden Shoes who had also played their way into the championship game with three pool play victories over\u00a0Charleston\u00a025-13, 25-19;\u00a0Highland\u00a025-15,\u00a025-10; Decatur MacArthur 25-15, 25-16. That set up an epic championship\u00a0that Effingham won by scores of 23-25, 25-22, 25-23.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Effingham is now 11-6 on the season and Teutopolis is 12-4<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Madison Miller of Teutopolis,\u00a0McKenzie Love and Berkley Pullen of Effingham were voted to the All-Tournament team.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>St. Anthony and Newton both took part in the\u00a0St. Anthony\u00a0invite.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Bulldogs picked up pool play wins over Shelbyville 28-26, 24-26, 15-13; Father McGivney 25-18, 25-23; Mt. Zion 25-14, 18-25, 15-9.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>St. Anthony lost to Newton in the\u00a0crossover 25-20, 22-25,15-13 which put the\u00a0Bulldogs in the third place game which they lost to Shelbyville 25-17, 25-15.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Newton gained pool play wins over\u00a0Unity 25-17,\u00a025-18 and\u00a0Triad 25-19, 30-28. The Eagles then lost to\u00a0Waterloo 20-25,\u00a020-25.<\/p>\n<p>After the crossover victory against St. Anthony, Newton again faced off with Waterloo for the championship but lost 21-25, 28-30 to finish in second place.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Newton is now 11-10 while St. Anthony is 12-4.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cowden-Herrick\/ Beecher City, South Central and North Clay all competed in the Vandalia Tournament Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In pool play North Clay lost to Carlyle 25-16, 25-12; Salem 25-22, 25-10; and CHBC 17-25, 25-12, 15-13. Prior to the victory over North Clay, CHBC fell to Salem 25-9, 25-13; and Carlyle 25-9, 25-13. South Central had pool play wins over Vandalia 25-19, 25-18; and East Alton\/Wood River 25-17, 25-16, and a loss to Hillsboro 29-27, 16-25, 13-15.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Cougars then played for third and fell to Carlyle 14-25, 21-25. Vandalia defeated CHBC in the fifth place contest 25-22, 25-14, and\u00a0North Clay defeated East Alton Wood River for seventh 25-14, 25-14.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cumberland participated in the New Berlin Tournament over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They suffered losses to the host school 25-20, 25-19; and Carlinville 25-22, 25-20; but bounced back to win the copper bracket with victories over Southeast 25-16, 18-25, 15-7; West Central 25-22, 30-28; and North Mac 25-19, 25-19.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cumberland is now 7-10-1 on the season.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dieterich was in the Flora tournament and saw their record fall to 5-12 after three losses to Flora 25-22, 25-23; Christ Our Rock Lutheran 25-8, 25-21; and Cisne 25-21, 25-22.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Effingham Hearts won the Charleston Invitational Volleyball tournament on Saturday. &nbsp; Effingham scored pool play wins over Carbondale 20-25, 25-17, 15-9; Okaw Valley 25-12, 25-11; and Mattoon 25-17, 25-22. &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[49],"class_list":["post-19058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-volleyball","tag-sports-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - 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