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Kinslee Sweeden helps spark Streator past Woodland in season opener · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Kinsley Sweden helped spark Streeter past Woodland and season opener.
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  Speaker 1: Written by Brian Hoxey, this article is being read by
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  Speaker 1: an automated voice brought to you by Everlett. In the
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  Speaker 1: opening two dozen points of Monday season opener between Streeter
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  Speaker 1: and host Woodland at the Warrior Dome, the Bulldogs were
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  Speaker 1: struggling to find their footing and trailed by nine, while
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  Speaker 1: the Warriors were taking advantage of every mistake. But Streeter
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  Speaker 1: junior Kinsley Sweden helped her team shake off the first
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  Speaker 1: match Jitters with a crosscourt kill followed by consecutive aces.
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  Speaker 1: The burst seemed to shift the momentum to the Bulldogs
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  Speaker 1: and they carried it all the way to a twenty
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  Speaker 1: five twenty one twenty five twenty victory over the Warriors.
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  Speaker 1: You're right, we had a lot of nerves at the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: and we knew we weren't playing as good as we can,
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  Speaker 1: Sweden said. But I feel like we are a very
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  Speaker 1: close team and we know there are going to be
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  Speaker 1: times when things don't go our way. Those are the
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  Speaker 1: times where you just have to stick together, and I
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  Speaker 1: thought we did a good job of doing that. Woodland
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  Speaker 1: started the opening set strong, using a trio of kills
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  Speaker 1: and an ace from senior middle hitter Grace Longmeyer, an
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  Speaker 1: ace from Gracie Milligan, and seven Street are hitting errors
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  Speaker 1: to push out to a seventeen to eight lead. After
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  Speaker 1: Sweden's aforementioned spurt, the two teams traded points until an
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  Speaker 1: Avery Gribbin side out kill cut the Woodland lead to
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  Speaker 1: twenty one point fifteen and brought Ashley Taylor to the
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  Speaker 1: serving line. Taylor then served up ten consecutive points, including
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  Speaker 1: three aces, while Gribbin, Sweden, and Alexa Bar posted kills.
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  Speaker 1: I felt like we had really good energy from the start,
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  Speaker 1: but maybe too much, Sweden said. We fell behind in
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  Speaker 1: that first set, but I think we all knew we
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  Speaker 1: could come back if we just cut down on the
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  Speaker 1: mistakes we were making a lot of times. In volleyball,
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  Speaker 1: all it takes is for someone to make a good
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  Speaker 1: play and all of a sudden your back on track.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully that little spurt did that for us. Tonight, Streeter
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  Speaker 1: coach Julie Gabhart said after the slow start, she was
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  Speaker 1: very happy with her team's performance to begin the season.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes, we came out with a ton of nerves
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  Speaker 1: at the beginning of the match, Gabhart said, we were
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  Speaker 1: making a lot of unforced mistakes and Woodland was taking
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  Speaker 1: advantage of them. Early on, we were doing a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good job of running our offense, but then we'd hit
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  Speaker 1: the ball out of bounds, and we also weren't serving.
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  Speaker 1: In that first set, we were down eight or nine
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  Speaker 1: points and Kinsley put down a timely kill, then served
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  Speaker 1: a couple of aces right after, and I could just
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  Speaker 1: see the team collectively take a deep breath and calm down.
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  Speaker 1: The Warriors started fast in the second set, pushing out
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  Speaker 1: to a six to two lead. A six point serving
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  Speaker 1: run by Kieran Black gave the Bulldogs the lead at
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  Speaker 1: nine to six. The teams were tied at sixteen all
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  Speaker 1: when a Gribbon kill and Black ace put the Vistas
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  Speaker 1: in the lead for good. A winning swing by Sophie
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  Speaker 1: Snow and an ace by Malaya Zavada on match point
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  Speaker 1: ended the night. Sweden five points, two aces and bar
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  Speaker 1: led Straighter with five kills each, while Snow had four
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  Speaker 1: and Gribbin and Zavada three apiece. Taylor finished with ten
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  Speaker 1: points and Black eight. Longmere led Woodland with seven kills,
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  Speaker 1: two blocks and ace and five points. Aubrey Laval had
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  Speaker 1: three kills and Addie Ewing a pair of kills. Milligan
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  Speaker 1: and Bella Bolt each had five points. Like I told
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  Speaker 1: the girls after the match, in our summer leagues, everyone
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  Speaker 1: is a little laid back, but when the real season starts,
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  Speaker 1: everyone is ready to go. Woodland coach Michelle Pitt said,
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  Speaker 1: I felt like we got off to a good start
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  Speaker 1: and things were coming pretty easy, but then Streeter started
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  Speaker 1: to push back and we couldn't build off our fast start.
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  Speaker 1: I was really proud of how we stayed clam We
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  Speaker 1: made a few mistakes, but they are ones that we
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  Speaker 1: can get corrected. This group so sometimes struggled with letting
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  Speaker 1: bad points go, not focusing on the next point, but
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  Speaker 1: tonight they did a very good job of moving on.
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  Speaker 1: Wood right back in action on Tuesday, hosting Field Crest,
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  Speaker 1: while Streeter is at Ottawa on Thursday.