Frisco Reedy's volleyball season nearly turned into a five-set grind before it became a regional final berth.
The Lady Lions finished a Class 5A Division I regional semifinal sweep of Amarillo Tascosa 25-13, 25-11, 38-36 on Friday at Abilene Christian University, according to the MaxPreps box score and the Fort Worth Star-Telegram's regional pairings. Reedy improved to 31-6. Tascosa ended at 28-15.
The first two sets looked like a continuation of the area-round form that made Reedy the last Frisco ISD volleyball team standing. The third set did not. Tascosa pushed the frame into extra points and forced Reedy to win 38-36 to close the match, per MaxPreps.
A sweep on the scoreboard still required the kind of late-set composure that separates regional finalists from teams that pack up after three rounds.
What the third set changed
A 25-13, 25-11 start can invite a soft finish. Tascosa refused that script. The Rebels, listed among the Panhandle programs still alive entering the weekend by Texas Panhandle Sports Network coverage of the regional semis, stayed in the third set long enough to make every rotation matter.
Thirty-eight to 36 is not a tidy volleyball number. It is the mark of a set that refused to end on the first handful of match points. Reedy still walked off with the sweep, but the path through that frame is the detail that will travel into Monday's regional final more clearly than the early margins.
Monday's opponent
MaxPreps lists Keller Fossil Ridge next on Monday, Nov. 9. The Panthers entered the regional final bracket at 21-22 after a 3-1 win over El Paso Chapin in their regional semifinal, according to MaxPreps' next-match notes. Record alone does not decide a regional final, and Fossil Ridge's path says the Panthers are still organizing points when the bracket tightens.
Reedy's own path into Friday was already a Frisco ISD story. The Lady Lions were the last campus from the district still playing after the area round, a fact that framed the November stretch before Tascosa arrived. Friday's result extends that run one more step: a regional final, with a state tournament berth on the other side of a single match.
