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  Princeton’s volleyball digs deep for third win overhaul. This
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  Everlet. Princeton's volleyball team had to work for a third straight victory
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  over Hall on Tuesday, responding to a second set rally and dispatching
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  the Red Devils 2511, 23, 25, 2515 at Prowdy Gym.
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  The Tigresses, fifteen fourteen six two three rivers east, enjoyed strong play
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  at the net from their middle blockers and persevered through several extended
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  rallies to complete a season sweep of their local rivals. We knew
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  going in that this would be a tough match, Princeton coach Libby
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  Boyle said. They're a kind of team that, sneaks up and surprises
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  you with energy and aggressive hitting. We did really well adjusting our
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  block at one point. Our middles did really well to do that
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  and communicate that and we adjusted when Hall started tipping. Our defense
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  only got better throughout the night. Princeton took control of the first
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  set from the beginning of play, as a trio of kills by
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  Colby Lawson and a block by Danica Burden sparked a 6-0 rally
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  to start the match. Chloe Motes notched two ace.
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  In a four-point run that gave the hosts their first double-digit lead
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  at 18-8, and Lawson delivered three more kills late in the set
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  before Bella Clevenger closed out the win with an ace. Hall, 7-17-4-2-6,
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  responded by taking a 4-1 lead in the second set. The Tigresses
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  leveled the score at 4-4 before the Red Devils enjoyed a 7-2
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  run, including two kills from Caitlin Coots to pull in front 11-6.
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  The visitors stayed in front until a surge of 5 straight points,
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  including a block and a kill on consecutive points by Peyton Brandt,
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  nudged Princeton in front 17-15. Playing Hall is hard in general, Brant
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  said, and beating a team three times is very difficult because they
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  know what's coming at them. At practice we've practiced that a lot,
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  because we've played the so many times. Following a timeout, Hall got
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  a block from Stella Simpson to ignite a four-point rally to give
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  the Red Devils a 1917 edge. They hosts threatened to close out
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  the match after taking a 23-22 lead on Jamison Morse's kill at
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  the net, but Hall emerged with the final three points to force
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  a third set. They fought hard, said Hall coach Carolyn Foster, whose
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  team was without the services of senior middle blocker Caroline Morris. Stella
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  Simpson, a freshman, stepped up and did really well. She did more
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  than I ever would have asked. Princeton held a slim 10-9 lead
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  in the third set when it embarked on the run that would
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  decide the match’s getting five points, on the serve of Peyton Harden
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  and three more on Moat's serve in an 8-1 rally that yielded
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  an 18-10 Tigris lead. Lawson tallied four kills in the surge which
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  was capped by two more aces from Moats. Princeton scored the match's
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  final five points, including 2 straight kills from Brandt to complete the
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  victory and improve to 4-3 at home. It felt good to be
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  back in Prowdy, Lawson said. It felt really good to finish strong,
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  with a big crowd, knowing that homecoming was last weekend. Lawson finished
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  with a match high fifteen kills, while Brandt totaled ten and Burden
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  put up nine. Motes recorded six of the Tigress's eight aces.
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  While Harden turned in twenty two assists and Addy Perry added fifteen.
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  Ava Kyle closed out a busy night with 31 digs, while Mates
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  and Harden each finished with fourteen. Leah Burkert paced Hall with 9
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  kills and 23 digs, while Kauts put up eight kills and nineteen
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  digs. Mia Wenzel recorded twenty assists and both of the Red Devil's
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  aces. Both teams are back on the court Thursday, as Princeton travels
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  to face Erie Prophetstown, july second, eighteen seven one, and Hall hosts
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  Newman, thirteen fourteen-to-six.