LEITCHFIELD -- The Lady Cougar varsity volleyball team played arguably their best game of the season Thursday as they defeated a sound Ohio County team 15-7, 15-9.

The opening game was a close one for the first several service rotations. The Lady Eagles led 1-0 and 3-2, before the Cougars took a 5-3 lead with Tiffany Clemons serving. Amy Satterfield and Amanda Fulkerson had kills in the three-point run.

Ohio County tied the score before Satterfield came to the line and served eight straight points to give the Lady Cougars the upper hand. Satterfield had one ace and Morgan Downs and Lee Ann Wood came up with kills during the run.

Ohio County managed two more points before Wood served the final two points for the first-game victory.

In the deciding game, Morgan Larrimore started things with an ace and served one more point to give Grayson County an early 2-0 lead.

The Lady Eagles' Kerri Mattingly then served three aces during a 5-0 run that put the Lady Eagles on top.

The Lady Cougars came back to knot the score at 6-6, then began having trouble getting their serves in. Finally Wood served a pair of points, including an ace, to make it 8-6.

The Lady Cougars stretched that lead to 10-6 before Ohio County added to their total and pulled to within a point at 10-9.

It was all Cougars the rest of the way as Clemons served the final four points of the game, including a pair of aces. Match point came when Satterfield made a beautiful set to Fulkerson who drove a left-hander on a line to an unoccupied corner for the kill.