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La Salle-Peru celebrates milestones, starts strong and cruises past Dixon · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  La Salle Peru celebrates milestones, starts strong and cruises past Dixon. Written
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  by Kevin Schlum This article is being read by an automated voice,
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  brought to you by Everlett. All season long, the LaSalle Peru volleyball
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  team has been jumping out to early leads. I think We have
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  a really good pregame, LP Senior Senior Addie Dawson said. We have
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  a lot of traditions that I think get our energy up and
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  get us excited for the game. I think our team bonding is
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  just really great, we have a really great team chemistry, and I
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  think that helps a lot. The Cavaliers had an extra boost of
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  excitement Wednesday as they celebrated two milestones that happened over the weekend
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  Senior Aubrey Dutlinger's 1000th career kill and coach Mark Habercorn's 1000th
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  victory at LP, which both happened at the Rock Falls tournament. It's
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  really exciting, said Dutlinger, who was presented with a plaque before pregame
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  introductions. I was hoping four my 1000th kill to be at home,
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  but to get that over the weekend was really good. That means
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  I was doing my job. It was really exciting to celebrate tonight.
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  There were a lot of fans here. I was excited. The Cavs
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  carried the excitement into the match, as they scored the first four
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  points of the opening set and the first five of the second
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  set and pulled away in both sets for a 25-12-2510 non-conference victory
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  over Dixon. I think we played great, Dawson said. I think we
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  were playing really sharp. There were a couple short balls we should
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  have been more on our toes for, but we played good. I
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  think our defense was good. We didn't have a lot of errors
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  at the net, and we were really on top of it with
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  blocking. In the first set, Dutlinger pounded down kills on the first
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  two points before Aubrey Urbansky served an ace. After a Dixon error
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  to start the second set, Urbansky served four straight points. The run
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  started with an ace, then Maggie Boudreaux had a block before back
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  to back kills by Dutlinger. We serve so well, Habricorn said about
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  the strong starts. Our first server is always Aubrey Urbansky. She seems
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  to get us four, give six, seven points every time to start
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  the match. That's a big momentum boost when We get ahead and
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  then we just keep building on it. The Cavs continued to extend
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  their lead in both sets. Freshman Quinn Krug gave the Cavs their
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  first double-digit lead in the first set with a block to make
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  it 14-4. Urbansky put down a kill off a free ball to
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  give L-P a 15-5 lead in the second set. I I think
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  we played very well, Dutlinger said. We played very clean. Our serving
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  has been working the past few games. Our defense has been really
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  good. Our communication has gotten so much better. We know when to
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  put the ball down. I think we're every consistent. Dutlinger finished with
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  12 kills to increase her season total to 214. She’s is the
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  first LP player to reach 1,000 kills since Cameron Olsen in 2019.
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  She also had 13 digs and 8 points in the match. It's
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  well deserved, Habricorn said about Dutlinger's 1,000 career kills. She works hard
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  every day. She's got power. She's got experience. She really loves the
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  game of volleyball. She's focused every day, every match and it's exciting
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  to see her grow as a player every year. She's such a
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  great example for our young players. Urbansky had 14 assists, 12 points,
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  2 aces, 7 kills and a block for LP, 13-2. While Alexis
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  Hines had 5 kills, Dawson finished with 9 points and 6 digs,
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  and Mackenzie Chamberlain added 11 points and 7 digs. Dixon coach Bunyan
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  Kokar said he knew it would be a tough match for the
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  Duchesses, 2-6, who We’re without three starters due to injury and illness.
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  Our one middle is out, and both right sides are out, which
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  is why we had. Very little resistance to their left side attack,
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  Kakar said. Our right side block was not used to playing there.
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  I knew it was going to be a tough game. They're a
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  very good team. Dutlinger is outstanding. We came in here and did
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  the best we could. We're a young team. We graduated everybody last
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  year, so it's a rebuilding year for us. But we're glad for
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  the experience. I saw our team make a couple improvements from the
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  last couple games we had. We're gonna learn from this and move
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  on.