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St. Bede volleyball hits past Earlville 25-15, 25-20 · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: St. Bede volleyball hits past Earlville 25-15, 25-20. Written by
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  Speaker 1: Brian Hoxie. This article is being read by an automated
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  Speaker 1: voice brought to you by Everlit. After taking the opening
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  Speaker 1: set in solid fashion, the St. Bede volleyball team hit
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  Speaker 1: a lull, trailing by three points in the second set
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  Speaker 1: against host Earlville on Monday night, forcing a timeout. We
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  Speaker 1: had a few points in a row where we made
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  Speaker 1: some mistakes. St. Bede junior middle hitter Kija Luka said,
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  Speaker 1: We weren't playing like we can. Coach Trenka called the timeout,
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  Speaker 1: and really her message was just, we need to get
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  Speaker 1: to playing to the level we can. I feel like
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  Speaker 1: we as players knew that, but just getting that break
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  Speaker 1: and coach's encouragement got us back on track right away.
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  Speaker 1: The Bruins responded by scoring 15 of the next 20 points,
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  Speaker 1: starting with back-to-back kills from Hanna Wojkowiak and an ace
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  Speaker 1: from Nele Potthoff. and eventually secured a 25-15, 25-20 victory
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  Speaker 1: over the Red Raiders. The win improved St. Bede to
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  Speaker 1: 5-1-2 on the season. Earlville dropped to 2-2. I feel
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  Speaker 1: like so far this season, our energy on the court
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  Speaker 1: and on the bench has been really good, Lucas said.
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  Speaker 1: Other than a few points in the second set where
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  Speaker 1: we struggled, I feel like we played really well. Lucas
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  Speaker 1: recorded a match-best nine kills, while Wozlowiak and Potoff, five digs,
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  Speaker 1: each had five winners. Bentley or not had 7 digs
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  Speaker 1: and an ace, while Lila Kohler had 14 assists and
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  Speaker 1: 4 aces. Normally, before I go up to swing, I
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  Speaker 1: already have a spot I'm going to hit to in mind,
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  Speaker 1: Lucas said. Tonight the middle of the court was open
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  Speaker 1: a lot, so that's where I was going for the
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  Speaker 1: most part. Set Lila Kohler was really good, spot on tonight,
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  Speaker 1: which made it that much easier for me. St. B
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  Speaker 1: jumped out to a 5-0 lead in the opening set
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  Speaker 1: and held a 15-8 advantage after consecutive aces by Kohler.
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  Speaker 1: A pair of kills by Washkowiak, another by Potoff, and
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  Speaker 1: a set point point ace by Ernat closed out the
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  Speaker 1: first set. I feel like this season we have a
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  Speaker 1: lot of girls who are very good hitters, and that's
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  Speaker 1: a great thing to have, St. Bede coach Nicole Trenka said.
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  Speaker 1: Kija led us in kills, but then we had a
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  Speaker 1: handful of other girls who had a handful as well.
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  Speaker 1: The main thing is, and it showed tonight, if we
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  Speaker 1: can pass well, everything is going to feed off that.
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  Speaker 1: I thought our back row play was pretty solid tonight.
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  Speaker 1: and that, in turn, made the offense run pretty smooth.
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  Speaker 1: Earlville trailed 7-3 to begin the second set before a
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  Speaker 1: six-point service run by Kylie Helgeson, including a kill by
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  Speaker 1: Kylie Franzese, gave the hosts a 10-7 lead and caused
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  Speaker 1: Trenka to call a timeout. It was an easy message.
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  Speaker 1: It was, just because we won the first set doesn't
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  Speaker 1: mean Earlville is just going to hand us the second,
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  Speaker 1: Trenka said. We wanted to come out of the timeout,
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  Speaker 1: get the next couple points, and grab the momentum back.
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  Speaker 1: The girls did that very well. After the aforementioned boost
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  Speaker 1: from Washkowiak and Pothoff, the Bruins used two more aces
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  Speaker 1: from Kohler and three kills from Lucas as part of
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  Speaker 1: the run that gave them a 22-15 lead. Earlville closed
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  Speaker 1: to within 23-19 on a kill by JC Helgeson, but
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  Speaker 1: kills by Washkowiak and Hannah Heilberger closed out the match.
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  Speaker 1: From ZZ, JC Helgeson and Audrey Scherer each had two kills,
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  Speaker 1: while Audrey Scherer served up a trio of aces. I
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  Speaker 1: thought we served well and passed off serve-receive well tonight,
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  Speaker 1: Earlville coach Tanya Scherer said. Our serve-receive really struggled in
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  Speaker 1: our last match against Plano, so it was good to
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  Speaker 1: see the improvement tonight. I'm seeing overall improvement from match
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  Speaker 1: to match, so we'll just keep working on getting better.
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  Speaker 1: The first set we were just kind of standing around,
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  Speaker 1: and St. Bede took advantage of that. They run a
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  Speaker 1: fast offense, and that isn't something we'd seen before tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Then in the second set we had way better energy.
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  Speaker 1: and stuck with them for the most part. We don't
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of height so with all the tall hitters, St.
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  Speaker 1: Bede has, it was tough to really slow them down.
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  Speaker 1: Earlville is right back in action at Depew on Tuesday,
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  Speaker 1: while St. Bede is off until Wednesday when it hosts Serena.