Joseph Case, Diman, Westport volleyball top Fall River teams in latest MIAA rankings

Steven Sanchez, The Herald News
·2 min read

The MIAA recently released another volleyball power rankings of the fall year this Tuesday.

The rankings only include scores entered into Arbiter as of Oct. 18, 4 a.m. For the volleyball state tournament, the top 32 teams qualify. Teams 33 and below qualify for a play-in game with a .500 or better record.

As of Tuesday, three Herald News teams are on pace to qualify for the playoffs. Somerset Berkley is ranked 33rd.

Here's a look at the girls volleyball power rankings for Fall River area teams:

Division I

  1. Newton North

  2. Newton South

  3. Lincoln-Sudbury

  4. Barnstable

  5. Andover

  6. Attleboro

  7. Franklin

  8. Methuen

  9. Needham

  10. Winchester

  11. Haverhill

  12. Shrewsbury

  13. Acton-Boxborough

  14. Natick

  15. Peabody Veterans

  16. Algonquin

  17. Concord-Carlisle

  18. Bishop Feehan

  19. Wellesley

  20. Hingham

  21. Boston Latin

  22. Wachusett

  23. North Andover

  24. Chelmsford

  25. Quincy

  26. Brookline

  27. Westford Academy

  28. Beverly

  29. Belmont

  30. Lexington

  31. Medford

  32. Bridgewater-Raynham

(Teams 33 and below qualify for a play-in game with a .500 or better record)

Durfee (41)

Durfee’s Alexis Layne returns the ball during a recent game against Case.
Durfee’s Alexis Layne returns the ball during a recent game against Case.

Division II

  1. Westborough

  2. King Philip

  3. Duxbury

  4. Dartmouth

  5. Melrose

  6. North Quincy

  7. Westwood

  8. Oliver Ames

  9. Masconomet

  10. Longmeadow

  11. Woburn Memorial

  12. Amherst-Pelham

  13. Billerica Memorial

  14. Burlington

  15. Marblehead

  16. Nashoba Regional

  17. Plymouth South

  18. Canton

  19. Revere

  20. Milton

  21. Hopkinton

  22. Plymouth North

  23. Whitman-Hanson

  24. West Springfield

  25. Agawam

  26. Reading Memorial

  27. Milford

  28. Westfield

  29. Notre Dame (Hingham)

  30. Danvers

  31. Mansfield

  32. Stoughton

(Teams 33 and below qualify for a play-in game with a .500 or better record)

Somerset Berkley (33)

Abigail Vieira
Abigail Vieira

Division III

  1. Dennis-Yarmouth

  2. Newburyport

  3. Tewksbury

  4. Old Rochester Regional

  5. Ashland

  6. Norton

  7. Fairhaven

  8. Medfield 1

  9. Greater New Bedford

  10. Cardinal Spellman

  11. Bedford

  12. Essex North Shore

  13. Wayland

  14. Greater Lowell Tech

  15. Hudson

  16. East Longmeadow

  17. Groton-Dunstable

  18. Foxborough

  19. Holliston

  20. Dighton-Rehoboth

  21. Pembroke

  22. Triton

  23. North Reading

  24. Apponequet

  25. Diman

  26. Bishop Fenwick

  27. North Middlesex

  28. Archbishop Williams

  29. New Mission

  30. Swampscott

  31. Bishop Stang

  32. Putnam Vo-Tech

(Teams 33 and below qualify for a play-in game with a .500 or better record)

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Diman’s Kacie Lynch plays a serve during a recent game against Bridgewater-Raynham.
Diman’s Kacie Lynch plays a serve during a recent game against Bridgewater-Raynham.

Division IV

  1. Ipswich

  2. Joseph Case 

  3. Nipmuc Regional

  4. Lynnfield

  5. Weston

  6. Ursuline Academy

  7. Medway

  8. Nantucket

  9. Arlington Catholic

  10. Lowell Catholic

  11. Wahconah

  12. Hamilton-Wenham

  13. Norwell

  14. Sandwich

  15. Whittier

  16. Blackstone Valley

  17. Shawsheen Valley Tech

  18. Advanced Math & Science

  19. Rockland

  20. Bellingham

  21. Abington

  22. South Lancaster Academy

  23. Malden Catholic

  24. East Bridgewater

  25. Greater Lawrence Tech

  26. Assabet Valley

  27. Bay Path

  28. Notre Dame (Worcester)

  29. Monument Mountain

  30. Stoneham

  31. Northeast Metro

  32. Southbridge

(Teams 33 and below qualify for a play-in game with a .500 or better record)

Bishop Connolly (40)

Case’s Hannah Storm sets the ball during Thursday’s game against Durfee.
Case’s Hannah Storm sets the ball during Thursday’s game against Durfee.

Division V

  1. Frontier

  2. Hopedale

  3. Mount Greylock

  4. Turners Falls

  5. Douglas

  6. Bourne

  7. Lee

  8. West Bridgewater

  9. Millis

  10. Saint John Paul II

  11. Whitinsville Christian

  12. South Shore Vo-Tech

  13. Paulo Freire SJ Charter

  14. Taconic

  15. Georgetown

  16. Millbury

  17. Tri-County

  18. Sutton

  19. Innovation Acad. Charter

  20. Blackstone-Millville

  21. Wareham

  22. Fellowship Christian Acad.

  23. Norfolk County Agricultural

  24. Easthampton

  25. Westport 

  26. Cape Cod

  27. Sturgis Charter East

  28. Southwick

  29. Mohawk Trail

  30. Franklin County Tech

  31. Oxford

  32. Holbrook 

(Teams 33 and below qualify for a play-in game with a .500 or better record)

Atlantis Charter (62)

Herald News and Taunton Daily Gazette sports editor Steven Sanchez can be reached at ssanchez@heraldnews.com. You can follow him on Twitter at @Chezsports. Support local journalism by purchasing a digital or print subscription to The Herald News today.

This article originally appeared on The Herald News: MIAA: Case, Diman, Westport still lock playoff spots, SBR on bubble