The area’s three high school girls volleyball teams got off to a quick start in the first week of the 2016 season, going 5-1.

Pinelands hosted an out-of-conference foe, Absegami, in its season opener last Thursday and easily won, 28-8, 15-9. The Wildcats traveled to Lakewood the next day for their Shore Conference B South debut and defeated the Piners, 25-14, 25-14.