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In another
hard-fought three-game match, the third-seeded squad from Carroll
Catholic defeated the second-seeded Panthers from Chester-East
Lincoln. Carroll received excellent, "never give up" play from its
entire squad, with notable performances by Samantha Lowman, Hannah
McShane and Amy Kelley. Carroll also moves on to the regional final
at Hartsburg tonight. The championship match is set to begin at 6
p.m. It was quite an amazing
night for the underdog Wolverines of West Lincoln-Broadwell. Because
of the new (hard to comprehend) IESA format, all preliminary
regional matches are played on one night, and only the championship
match is played on a separate night. Because of this format, WL-B
was faced with the daunting task of playing two matches in one
night, with the second match being against the top-seeded team and
with only an hour in between matches. WL-B rose to the challenge.
WL-B won its first match of the
evening by defeating a good Zion Lutheran team 16-14, 15-9. The
Wolverines' statistics were as follows:
Points
Molly Goodrich, 6
Brittany Colby, 3
Hilary Hobler, 4
Laura Aughenbaugh, 8
Felicia Jackson, 1
Leah Shirley, 6
Aces
Molly Goodrich, 3
Brittany Colby, 1
Laura Aughenbaugh, 2
Felicia Jackson, 1
Kills
Molly Goodrich, 1
Brittany Colby, 5
Hilary Hobler, 14
Laura Aughenbaugh, 6
Felicia Jackson, 6
Set assists
Molly Goodrich, 26
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 As the final match of the evening
began, it seemed that Hartsburg would have an easy time with the
somewhat weary WL-B team. In game one, using excellent serving,
Hartem won 15-4. But then the tide turned. In game two WL-B and
Hartem played even to 7-7 and then the Wolverines began to separate
themselves. The final score of game two was WL-B 15, Hartem 11.
Game three of the match was a fight
to the finish. WL-B went up early in the match and remained ahead
until the score was 14-11. Hartsburg was not about to go down easily
and scored the next three points to tie the score at 14-14. After a
couple of exchanges, Hartsburg also got the next point to go up
15-14. WL-B was able to fight off defeat to tie the score at 15-all.
The Wolverines then pulled off the upset by scoring the next two
points to win the match 17-15.
In the match against Hartem the WL-B
stats were as follows:
Points
Molly Goodrich, 7
Brittany Colby, 4
Hilary Hobler, 9
Laura Aughenbaugh, 2
Felicia Jackson, 1
Leah Shirley, 12
Aces
Molly Goodrich, 3
Hilary Hobler, 2
Leah Shirley, 2
Kills
Brittany Colby, 7
Hilary Hobler, 21
Laura Aughenbaugh, 15
Felicia Jackson, 9
Set assists
Molly Goodrich, 24
Leah Shirley, 1
Good luck to both teams in tonight's
final match!
[Rick Hobler]
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