Throughout the coming week, area middle school and high school sports fans will not have to look far to find a tournament being contested.

That will start Saturday with all three Owensville volleyball team seeing tournament action along Highway 47.

Jamie Ridenhour’s Owensville varsity Dutchgirl volleyball team will be at the Megan Gross Invitational up in Warrenton where they will be in the same pool as Fort Zumwalt West, Battle and St. Louis Christian Sr. High.

Moving south along Highway 47, freshman and JV Dutchgirl volleyball teams coached by Courtney Hinson and Emily McKinney will compete in tournament action inside two gyms at Union High School (UHS).

In the UHS Auxiliary Gym, Owensville’s freshmen will compete in a six-team round-robin format against Pacific, Union, Capital City, St. Clair and Hermann.

Union JV Volleyball Tournament action for the Dutchgirls will see them in Pool A against Jackson, St. Clair and Union. Pool B in that same tournament will consist of Capital City, Washington, Festus and Pacific.

Next week for Ridenhour’s Dutchgirls at Hermann, they will be in Pool B on Tuesday, Oct. 1 against New Haven (4 p.m.), Pacific (7 p.m.) and the St. Louis Panthers (8 p.m.)

Pool A teams playing on Monday, Sept. 30 at Hermann will include Borgia, Washington, St. James and the host Lady Bearcats.

Area middle school basketball teams will also be in tournaments along Highway 47 with a seventh-grade tournament in St. Clair and an eighth-grade tournament in Washington.

Hermann will compete in the Tom Todd Tournament at Washington Middle School on Tuesday, Oct. 1 in first-round action against Union while Owensville’s Dutchgirls will face Sullivan in a play-in game Monday, Sept. 30 in Washington to earn the right to face top-seeded Pacific.

Down in St. Clair, Kayla Huebner’s seventh-grade Dutchgirls will open that tournament on Monday, Sept. 30 at 7 p.m., in first-round action against Sullivan at St. Clair Junior High School.