Pool pairings set for Tonganoxie Invitational volleyball tournament
Tonganoxie volleyball
Tonganoxie will be the No. 4 seed at its home invitational Saturday.
THS will be in Pool A along with No. 1 De Soto, No. 5 Shawnee Mission Northwest, No. 8 Leavenworth and No. 9 Ottawa. Pool A matches will take place in Chieftain Arena.
Pool B teams are No. 2 Blue Valley Southwest, No. 3 Gardner-Edgerton, No. 6 Eudora, No. 7 Topeka High and No. 10 Junction City. Those matches will be in the Auxiliary Gymnasium west of Chieftain Arena. First matches start at 8 a.m.
Tonganoxie will play all of its matches on Court 1 in pool play. THS opens at 8 a.m. against Shawnee Mission Northwest and then will face De Soto. THS will have a break and then take on Leavenworth and then Ottawa.
No. 1 team in Pool A will take on the No. 2 team in Pool B and vice versa in the semifinals. The winner of those matches will compete on Court 1 in the championship, while the semifinal losers will square off in the third-place game on Court 2 in Chieftain Arena.
In the auxiliary gymnasium, the No. 3 teams in each pool will play in the fifth-place match on Court 3, while the No. 4 teams in each pool will meet in the seventh-place match on Court 4. The No. 5 teams in each pool will not play a match after pool play.