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  Speaker 1: Newark's defense, passing lead Norseman past Marquette. Written by Brian Hoxie.
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  Speaker 1: This article is being read by an automated voice brought
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  Speaker 1: to you by Everlit. Newark senior setter Taylor Jeffers said,
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  Speaker 1: while the season is just two matches old after Tuesday's
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  Speaker 1: 25-21-25-13 victory over visiting Marquette, she feels like her team
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  Speaker 1: has set a good early course for a great season.
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  Speaker 1: We knew our first few games to start the season
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  Speaker 1: were going to be against a couple of really good teams,
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  Speaker 1: but playing teams like Moline and now Marquette will only
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  Speaker 1: make us better, Jeffers said. I feel like we've played
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  Speaker 1: pretty well in these first two matches. The Norsemen, 2-0,
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  Speaker 1: used a few short scoring spurts to forge a lead
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  Speaker 1: and eventually take the opening set before extending those runs
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  Speaker 1: in the second set to create separation over the Crusaders, 1-1.
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  Speaker 1: I thought our passings, while a little slow at the start,
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  Speaker 1: really picked up and was really good, Jeffers said. When
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  Speaker 1: we pass well, that just makes our offense flow well.
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  Speaker 1: I know I wasn't having to move very much from
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  Speaker 1: my setting spots, so that just makes it much easier
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  Speaker 1: to make better passes to our hitters. I also thought
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  Speaker 1: our hitters did a great job of hitting smartly. Marquette
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  Speaker 1: jumped out to a 10-7 first set lead behind three
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  Speaker 1: kills from Lucy McGrath and a pair from Taylor Gaimans.
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  Speaker 1: A five-point service run by Newark's Tessa Cott fueled by
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  Speaker 1: an ace and kills from Zoe Carlson and Jeffers, gave
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  Speaker 1: the hosts a 13-10 lead. Marquette closed to within 18-16,
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  Speaker 1: but Newark scored the next four points to take control.
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  Speaker 1: I thought our defense, blocking combined with back row play,
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  Speaker 1: was really good tonight, Newark coach P.J. McKinney said. I
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  Speaker 1: feel like we are a better blocking team than we've
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  Speaker 1: been in the past few years, and if we can
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  Speaker 1: have that aspect be good along with running a solid offense,
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  Speaker 1: I think this can be a really, really good team.
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  Speaker 1: I agree with Taylor, because we played good defense, our
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  Speaker 1: passing was good. I feel that if we can get
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  Speaker 1: the ball to Taylor or Ella Bromland, not make them
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  Speaker 1: move a lot, they are going to put a great
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  Speaker 1: pass to our hitters a high percentage of the time.
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  Speaker 1: That said, we feel we have some pretty good hitters
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  Speaker 1: to make those passes count. Newark had leads of 6-1
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  Speaker 1: and 12-6 before a 5-point run by Riley Carlson, which
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  Speaker 1: included a kill and block from Zoe Carlson. A kill
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  Speaker 1: by Rita McLaughlin and back-to-back winners by Kaitlyn Davis halted
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  Speaker 1: the burst, but Newark responded with a side-out kill from
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  Speaker 1: Ashlyn Underhill, which was followed by a Marquette, hitting error
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  Speaker 1: and consecutive kills by Zoe Carlson to push the advantage
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  Speaker 1: to 21-9. Newark was led in the match by Zoe Carlson,
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  Speaker 1: 6 kills, 5 blocks, 2 aces, Riley Carlson, 3 kills,
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  Speaker 1: 5 digs, an ace, Maya Wesse, 3 kills, Jeffers, 9 assists,
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  Speaker 1: 3 kills, and Bromeland, 6 assists, 2 kills. McLaughlin led
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  Speaker 1: the Crusaders with four kills and eight digs, while Kinley Rick,
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  Speaker 1: seven service points, two aces, and McGrath each had three kills.
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  Speaker 1: Hunter Hopkins also had six digs for Marquette. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like we played pretty well in the first set and
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  Speaker 1: at the start of the second set, but then we
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  Speaker 1: became complacent and weren't aggressive, Marquette coach Mindy McConaughey said.
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  Speaker 1: We came out with a ton of confidence and were
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  Speaker 1: swinging hard, then it was just like Newark scored two
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  Speaker 1: or three points in a row, and all of a sudden,
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  Speaker 1: we were back on our heels. In the second set,
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  Speaker 1: we struggled in our serve, received way too much, and
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  Speaker 1: we just weren't putting up the same kind of blocking
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  Speaker 1: effort as we had in the first set. We made
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  Speaker 1: a lot of really good defensive plays to keep things alive,
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  Speaker 1: but then we also had 16 hitting errors, many right
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  Speaker 1: after those good defensive plays, but really, once we stopped
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  Speaker 1: blocking it, was kind of downhill from there. Marquette is
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  Speaker 1: back in action on Thursday at Woodland, while Newark is
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  Speaker 1: off until next Tuesday when it's at Indian Creek.