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Streator celebrates its seniors before straight-sets loss to East Peoria · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Streeter celebrates its seniors before loss to East Peoria. This
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  Everlit. While the match following its seniors night celebration didn't go the
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  way the Streeter Girls volleyball team was hoping, a 2512-2515 loss Monday
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  to visiting East Peoria at Popsdale Gymnasium, the Bulldogs four seniors know
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  the success the team has enjoyed this season. Starts with them. We
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  have the best bond, Senior Laburo Kennedy Harcherick said. We do a
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  lot of team bonding, and we just have the best team, because
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  we're all so friendly with each other. We talk all the time,
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  we're very supportive, no one has beef with each other. I just
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  feel the best way to win is to have a great relationship
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  with your team. Because even when we lose, we're still having fun.
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  That was apparent even during a rough night on the court Monday,
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  one which saw East Peoria, seventeen and fifteen, so score the Knights
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  initial six points in the opening set and then jump ahead four
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  zero in the second, leaving Streeter, sixteen thirteen five, playing from behind
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  all evening. Senior night can be a mixed bag, Bulldogs coach Julie
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  Gabhart said. Sometimes the emotions can propel you, and sometimes the can
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  hold you back a little bit. It was a very emotional night.
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  It always is. It just wasn't our night, and East Peoria’s has
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  a really nice team. Led by a powerful three hitter attack, the
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  Raiders won ten of the first eleven rallies in the opening set
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  and sixteen of the first twenty two in the section set. Addison
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  Dunchion, eleven kills, Braille Van Ness, seven kills, two blocks, and Lizzie
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  Billingsley, five kills, together put down twenty five of East Peoria's twenty
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  eight kills or blocks on The
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  night. We really emphasized for this match g being intentional when we
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  start out, East Peoria coach Maris Barkley said. We uh tend to
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  start out a little bit rough, dig ourselves a hole, so this
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  game was one where we wanted to capitalize on starting strong and
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  keeping that momentum throughout the entire game. I thought we did a
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  great job of that. The Bulldogs did manage a few rallies. Streeter
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  sliced a 10 1 deficit to 10 6 in the opener, powered
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  by a four point service run from Alexa Barr that featured an
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  ace along with kills, courtesy of fellow senior Sophia Snow, sophomore Avery
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  Gribbin, and junior Ashley Taylor. Kills from Kinsley Sweden and Barr, followed
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  by a Malaya Zavada stuffblock, likewise drew the Bulldogs closer early in
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  the second set, but East Peoria's Leah Stenger followed with a seven-point
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  service run that rebuilt and extended the Raiders advantage. For the Bulldogs,
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  all four seniors, Snow, two kills, one dig, Harkerick seven digs, Bar
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  ten digs, three kills, two aces, and Gibbella Patterson, two digs contributed.
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  The seniors have been the backbone of this programme for several years,
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  Gabhart said. I think they all really stepped up big this year
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  and played lead roles all season long. Gribbon, 2 kills, 5 digs,
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  Sweden, 3 kills, 1 block, 4 assists, 3 digs, and Taylor 2
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  kills, 4 assists, 5 digs also led the attack. Streeter finishes the
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  regular season Tuesday with a visit to Illinois Central Eight Conference champion
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  Mantino before heading to next week's Class III, a Crete Mini Regional.