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  Glenbard West Stymies heavy hitting Oswego to win sectional semifinal Written by
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  Skylar Cassellus This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  to you by Everlet. Glenbard West knew full well the calibre of
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  opponent it would be facing in its sectional semifinal match Tuesday night.
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  Going up against two of the state's top hitters in Oswego's Hannah
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  Herrick and Sarah Gilio, the Hilltoppers set out to prepare, knowing they
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  couldn't be afraid when it came time to play ball. Being scared
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  never helped anyone, Senior Farinberge said. You can't be scared when you
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  go up against hitters like those. You have to be confident, and
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  you have to know that you can shut them down. The Hilltoppers
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  did just that, shutting down the vaunted Panthers and never trailing in
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  a twenty five eighteen twenty five sixteen sweep of one of the
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  Southwest Prairie Conference's best to open the class for a Glenbard West
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  sectional. Senior setter Kara Herbert was once again at the controls for
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  Glenbard West, 32-6. Herbert, a Loyola Maryland commit, dished out 19
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  assists, spreading The
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  ball to five different hitters with the objective of keeping the Panthers
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  24-10 on their toes. Just to keep their middles guessing, their whole
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  team guessing was my main thing, Herbert said. Keep my offense balanced,
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  and the obviously using my hot hitters. The Hilltopper's hottest hand of
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  the night was middle blocker Burridge, who led the team with seven
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  kills on.500 hitting while adding three blocks. The senior was especially productive
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  in the second set, tallying at least four kills in the frame,
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  including the match winner. Burridge said she played with the mission of
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  keeping a season full of potential alive for her and her teammates.
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  Every playoff game than I’ve played so far, I just keep thinking,
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  This is not going to be my last game, Burridge said. I
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  have this very competitive mindset. I want to do it for myself,
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  but I also want to do it for my underclassmen too. I
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  just go out there and I really want it more than I've
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  ever wanted it before. Seniors Ella Rowe and Adria Timpone followed Burridge
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  with four kills each. Emily Jurek and Maddie O'Connell had six digs
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  apiece. Herbert also finished with two blocks and two aces.
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  On Oswego's side of the net, Herrick recorded a match-high 9 kills
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  on.412 hitting. Saragilio, who had 30 kills across two matches last week,
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  managed 4 kills to go with 6 digs. Elena Massey made eight
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  assists And five digs, and Amelia Moseley had eight digs, and three
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  assists. Lilly Roller contributed five digs and two aces. Those girls are
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  unreal, Glenbard West coach Dan Scott said of Herrick and Gilio. There's
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  just some things that you can't stop from The
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  and we were okay with clapping for their great shots, then moving
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  on. And as long we got a couple blocks, a couple digs,
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  took them out of system enough to where they couldn't just rip
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  it at us the entire time. We thought we had a good
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  chance of of transitioning and going on some runs, which we did.
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  The Hilltopper shot out to a 6-0 lead to open the match.
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  Oswego battled back to within 3-8-5 and again at 13-8. Glenbard West
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  later used a 4-0 run to build a 17-10 advantage before taking
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  the set 25-18 on a timpone kill. The second set was more
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  contested early, with the teams battling to a 6-6 tie until Glenbard
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  West broke away to an 11-7 lead at Oswego's first timeout and
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  15-8 at them second. The Panthers committed multiple errors in that stretch,
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  something Coach Gary Mosley said had been a focal point four the
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  You cannot give teams points, especially like that, Mosley said. When you're
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  giving them easy outs and making them uncomfortable, which is the antithesis
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  of what we talked about, it's tough when you give those teams
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  chances and you're giving them points. The Hilltoppers took their largest lead
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  of the night after a Caitlin Antonachie ace made it twenty one
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  fourteen. They won four of the next six rallies to make the
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  set and secure the sweep. With the win, Glenbard West advances to
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  Thursday's sectional title match against Downers Grove North 28-9, which swept Bene
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  Academy in Tuesday night's second semi-final match. It'll be the Hilltoppers first
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  trip to a sectional championship since twenty twenty three, Herbert's freshman year
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  when they fell to Benay in a sweep. Now a fourth year
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  starters Herbert feels this year's group has what it takes to make
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  a different ending. I feel like we can do it, Herbert said.
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  Something is different about this year. I think the group of girls
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  We have are really special, and something about this going into this
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  next game, I feel really great about our chances. Meanwhile, Oswego heads
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  into the offseason where it'll say goodbye to a five-player senior class
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  that includes starters Herrick, Massey, Mosley, and Danny Brooks. Though they Panthers
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  are taking heavy losses, Mosley said there's plenty of talent waiting in
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  the wings. We feel really good about what's coming up, what's with
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  us, Moseley said. We got girls that couldn't play this year that
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  could start at a lot of other places. So in regard to
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  what's coming, there are definitely pieces coming in that regard. It's to
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  be continued for us. But losing the seniors is tough because they
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  know and they set the standard for what our OPV culture and
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  our OPV family is. So losing those girls and the role modeling
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  for the underclassmen, it's a tough loss.