Fairfield Lady Lions clinch ’26 SHAC Division II co-championship

The Fairfield Lady Lions volleyball team defeated the Manchester Lady Greyhounds on the road Friday evening and in the process won a share of the 2026 Southern Hills Athletic Conference Division II championship. 

Fairfield shares the title for the second consecutive year with Fayetteville, and this championship gives the Lady Lions either a full or shared SHAC volleyball championship (in Div. I or Div. II) for five straight seasons. 

In ’22, Fairfield won the Division I championship, then in ’23 and ’24 FHS won the outright Division II title. In the ’25 and ’26 seasons, the Lady Lions were co-champions in Division II. 

In the championship-clinching match for the Lady Lions — they finished the SHAC season with a 10-3 conference record — Fairfield won in four sets, taking set one at 25-13, then they won set two at 25-11 and they were victorious in set four at 25-17. 

Manchester won the third set by a 25-22 score. 

The Lady Lions in the win also collected 49 kills as a team, plus they had 49 assists, 15 aces, 97 digs and eight blocks. 

Of the 49 kills by the Lady Lions, senior Remi Moon had 30 kills, while junior Hadley Weddle finished with seven kills. Also collecting kills were junior Jorja May (five), sophomore Bailey Jones (four) and junior Addison Cannon (three). 

Junior Paisley Stahlhut finished with 45 of the 49 assists, while teammates senior Emma Ayres, senior Alyssa Bales, May and Moon each had one. 

Fairfield’s 15 aces were made by Weddle with five, Moon (three), May (three), Cannon (three) and Stahlhut (one). 

The Lions had 97 digs, as Moon led with 29 and was followed by May with 19 and Bales with 16. FHS also had Ayres with 12 digs, Stahlhut with 11 digs, giving Fairfield five players with at least 11 or more digs. The Lady Lions also had digs by Weddle (six), Cannon (four) and Jones (one). 

On Monday, Oct. 12, the Fairfield Lady Lions traveled to Fayette County to face the host Washington Lady Blue Lions at Washington High School, and the same Lady Lions of Fairfield returned home with a three-set victory in non-conference action. 

The Monday night non-conference victory by Fairfield included them having scores of 25-13 in set one, 25-17 in set two and 25-19 in set three to seal the win. 

Fairfield ended the match with team totals of 49 kills, 42 assists, eight aces, 73 digs and four blocks. 

Of the 49 kills recorded, 29 were by senior Remi Moon, followed by 11 by junior Paisley Stahlhut. Also having kills for FHS were sophomore Bailey Jones (three), junior Jorja May (three), junior Hadley Weddle (two) and junior Addison Cannon (one). 

The 42 assists were collected by Stahlhut with 37, senior Alyssa Bales (one), Cannon (one), Moon (one) and Weddle (one). 

Fairfield’s eight aces were made by Stahlhut (three), Bales (three), Cannon (one) and May (one).

FHS also had their 73 digs in the three-set win with Moon collecting 26 of those, while May finished the match with 14. 

Also with digs were Bales with seven, Cannon (four), senior Kinsey Drury (eight), freshman Laural McCoy (one), Stahlhut (10), sophomore Corinne Tolle (one) and Weddle (two). 

Fairfield’s four blocks were by Moon with two, and with one each were Jones and Cannon.