ACWORTH - North Cobb is putting emphasis on aggressive serving this season this season.

That's the very reason the Lady Warriors, a Class AAAAA team, won their best-of-five home volleyball match Monday (25-9, 25-11, 25-19) over their neighboring rival North Cobb Christian.

North Cobb served 22 aces in the match against the Lady Eagles, a Class A program which graduated four seniors after making the second round of sectionals last season. Eighteen of the aces came in the first two games.

The Lady Warriors served for power right at the body of North Cobb Christian players and into the open court, taking the Lady Eagles out of their offensive sets. Kelsey Breeden was the North Cobb leader with eight aces and Tori Forrest, Katie O'Rourke and Lauren Schmitz added four each.

North Cobb served 10 aces in the first game. A long service run by Breeden opened a 10-3 Lady Warriors lead. The game ended with an eight-point run on Forrest's serve - four of which were aces.

O'Rourke got hot behind the service line in the second game. She pounded all four of her aces on a five-point service run that gave the Lady Warriors a 12-5 cushion. Back-to-back aces of Breeden's serve opened a 15-6 lead.

"We have pretty aggressive servers," North Cobb coach James Auld said. "We made our service game a focus on we can improve our offense. We're trying to become consistently aggressive."

North Cobb's serving dictated its offensive tempo. Forrest led the Lady Warriors in kills with 11. Ashley Neff added eight, plus 2.5 blocks. Kristin Miller contributed with six kills and O'Rourke and Schmitz had three each.

With mostly North Cobb reserves on court to begin the third game, the Lady Eagles took command early. Three straight aces by Morgan Woodward gave North Cobb Christian an 11-6 lead.

The Lady Eagles maintained their five-point lead until North Cobb's regular starters began taking the court. Another service run by Breeden, where there were four aces involved, gave the Lady Warriors a 21-17 lead.

Amanda Adamson and Lauren Johnston led North Cobb Christian with four kills apiece. Taylor Hathaway finished with six assists.