It was a district matinee Saturday at Harlan County High School, but there was very little mystery involved as the Lady Bears tied a school record for victories by rolling past visiting Middlesboro 25-4, 25-6, 25-7 to improve to 20-5 overall and 4-1 in district action.
The Lady Bears can break the record and clinch a tie for the top seed in the 52nd District Tournament with a win Monday at Harlan.
No statistics were available at press time.
The 3-10 Lady Jackets take next week off before playing host to J. Frank White, Tenn., on Oct. 14 and travel to Knox Central the next night to close the regular season.
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Harlan County claimed a 21-7, 21-15 win in junior varsity action as sophomore Abbie Blackburn led HCHS with 18 service points in the first set and also had one kill, two digs and four aces.
Aly Sherman contributed six assists, four digs, two aces and one kill. Karli Shoupe added nine digs and one ace. Sophie Day had seven digs, two kills and one ace. Maggie Clem added two kills and two digs. Trinity Jones added one ace, one kill and one dig. LiaKate Carer added one kill, and Sydney Jenkins had one dig.