Over the next two weeks, it will be win or go home for area volleyball and softball teams.

Hannah Koppelmann’s Owensville Dutchgirl softball team is scheduled to begin play in the Missouri State High School Activities Association (MSHSAA) Class 3, District 2 Softball Tournament at Sullivan High School today (Wednesday) as the second seed.

Weather permitting, they are scheduled to face the seventh-seeded Cuba Lady Wildcats in the second of three first-round games at 5:30 p.m.

Other first-round action from Sullivan will feature the fourth-seed St. James Lady Tigers take on the fifth-seed Notre Dame (St. Louis) Lady Rebels at 4 p.m., with third-seeded Lutheran South facing sixth-seeded St. Clair at 7 p.m.

Chris Leibach’s Hermann Lady Bearcats will venture to Blair Oaks to compete in the MSHSAA Class 3, District 5 Softball Tournament beginning tomorrow (Thursday) at the Falcon Athletic Complex.

Due to their cooperative agreement with New Haven, the Lady Bearcats and Lady Shamrocks had to combine their enrollments moving Hermann into Class 3 instead their traditional Class 2 classification.

Seeded seventh, Hermann was face the second-seeded Eldon Lady Mustangs at 5 p.m., on Thursday, Oct. 15 in game three of a first-round quadrupleheader at Blair Oaks.

Game one at 2 p.m., in Wardsville will see top seed Southern Boone face eighth seed Fulton followed at 3:30 p.m., by the fourth seed Blair Oaks taking on fifth seed Boonville.

Capping tomorrow’s (Thursday) first-round quadrupleheader will be third seed Osage and sixth seed California.

Jamie Ridenhour’s Owensville Dutchgirl volleyball team will open the MSHSAA Class 3, District 9 Tournament at Cuba High School on Tuesday, Oct. 20 taking on St. James at 6:30 p.m.

Owensville was awarded the third seed while St. James earned the sixth seed.

Other first-round action next Tuesday will see the fourth seeded Salem Lady Tigers take on the fifth seeded Cuba Lady Wildcats.

Top-seeded St. Clair and second-seeded Sullivan drew byes to the semifinals on Thursday, Oct. 22.

Tess Yoggerst’s Hermann Lady Bearcat volleyball team was given the second seed behind Linn’s Lady Wildcats in the MSHSAA Class 2, District 6 Volleyball Tournament scheduled to begin also on Tuesday, Oct. 20 at Hermann High School.

Hermann will face seventh-seeded New Bloomfield at 6 p.m., in the second game of a first-round tripleheader.

Game one will see fourth-seeded North Callaway take on fifth-seeded Montgomery County at 4:30 p.m., while third-seeded Fatima faces sixth-seeded Veritas Christian Academy capping next Tuesday’s first-round tripleheader header at 7:30 p.m.