The Davie volleyball teams mashed the gas pedal last week and put four matches in the win column.

The varsity won at North Davidson on Sept. 8 in Central Piedmont Conference play, improving to 2-1 in the league and beating the Black Knights for the 15th time in 16 tries. The only loss during that span came last year.

In a nonconference match at Forbush two days later, the War Eagles prevailed in four sets to push their overall record to 7-2. The scores were 25-15, 25-8, 24-26, 25-12.

Davie is off to the best start through nine matches in four years; it also opened 7-2 in 2011.

The JV remained perfect with wins over N. Davidson and Forbush. If it has ever had another 7-0 start, it happened before 1996. So this is the best seven-match start in at least 20 years.