MEDFORD INVITATIONAL - Raiders get better as day goes on, Pirates knock them off 2-1

The Rib Lake volleyball very easily could have started the season 2-0 on Tuesday, but the Redmen were unable to close out four close sets and wound up 0-2 in a triangular at Loyal.Normally a quad, Whitehall did not make the trip to Tuesday’s meet, leaving Rib Lake, Loyal and Augusta to do a threematch round-robin. Augusta won the first two matches by 2-0 scores to win the meet. Loyal and Rib Lak...

While Stanley-Boyd took home the championship trophy with a 4-0 record, no one left Tuesday’s season-opening Medford Volleyball Invitational emptyhanded.For the host Medford Raiders, a 1-3 record wasn’t exactly what they wanted, but without question, they got much better from their first match to their fourth. They handily swept Athens in their third match and they took the champion Orioles do...