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After dropping first set, Fulton storms back to beat Bureau Valley for regional title · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  After dropping first set, Fulton storms back to beat Bureau Valley for
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  a regional title. Written by Brad Martin. This article is being
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  read by an automated voice, brought to you by Everlet. Cliche or
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  not, but the old saying, It's not how you start, but how
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  you finish is true. So is Don't Poke the Bear, as the
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  Bureau Valley volleyball team found out during the Class one a Saint
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  Bede Regional Championship match Thursday in Peru. The number four seeded Storm
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  took the opening set against Fulton, and the number one steamers responded
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  with two dominant sets to claim the regional title with a 23
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  25 2510 2513 victory. The Steamers, 31-5, who
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  have won 21 matches in a row, advance to the Weathersfield sectional
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  on Tuesday to play Brimfield. Bureau Valley was playing very hard in
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  that first
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  set Fulton sophomore Kirby German said. We weren't moving well and where
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  we needed to be, and then once we started to do that,
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  we got some quick sex and started getting some big hits going.
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  We did not want to see this end here in regionals. An
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  exciting first set saw the two teams go back and forth. Maya's
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  ship led the way for the storm, and her kill gave BV
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  a 4-2 lead early on, but three straight shots that sailed long
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  tied the set at 5. Fulton pulled ahead nine five with a
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  couple big blasts from German, but the storm fired back with a
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  block from Elise House and an ace from Audrey Indress, before a
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  combined block from Brindley Doty and Libby Endress tied the score at
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  nine. Ship and Libby Indress started a 5-0 run for the storm
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  that included a
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  kill.
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  Down the line from ship twice to take a 14-10 edge. Fulton,
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  however, started to make a run, as German fired a shot down
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  then line, and the another that went off the net and landed
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  for a point. The steamers appeared poised to take the opening set
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  as they led twenty-three nineteen. But Fulton was whistled for two hits
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  before Ship put down a kill. After a quick hit by House
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  and a Doty Ace, the set was tied at 23. Avery Bush
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  sent a shot into the net and then ship ended the Storm's
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  winning six zero run with a kill to cap the first set
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  victory. We came out and executed our plan well tonight in that
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  first set, Storm Coach Sage Allison said. We soaked in the environment
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  of the regional championship and Maya ship is just a huge playmaker
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  for us and the girls rally around that. However, that was about
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  all the excitement the Storm would have as as the steamers started
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  firing off the cannons as often as the could set up the
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  assist. It started right from the opening tip as Chloe Wilkin unleashed
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  a monster shot and then Bush delivered back-to-back aces. Aubrey Andras briefly
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  ended the run with a kill for Bureau Valley, but the Steamers
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  immediately returned fire as German made it 5-1 with back-to-back kills. Bush
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  had a miss hit for Fulton but back-to-back misshits from the Storm
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  and a big hit from German made it 9-2. German added two
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  more kills and they teammate Nora Kinger added two of her own
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  as the stammer's lead grew to 14.4. Ren Coffee served up an
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  ace for Fulton.
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  And then Wilken had a pair of kills as Fulton built a
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  commanding twenty five lead. Wilkin hit a rocket on two plays and
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  an ace from Bush helped the steamers take the second set 25-10.
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  I think we had a little check of our attitude after that
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  first set, Fulton coach Stacy German said. We reminded ourselves what our
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  season goals were, and Kirby, Germann and Chloe Wilken do a really
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  good job hitting wide
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  and then just got on a roll. The third set was a
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  mirror image of the second as Wilkin stuffed a shot and then
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  had a block as the lead was four two early on for
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  Fulton. Dotie sailed a shot long, and then a block attempt went
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  wide before Kingry blasted one down the center of the court for
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  a 10-6 advantage. A quick swat of the ball from Wilkin to
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  go along with a combined block with Ella Folk made it seventeen
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  seven after a pair of aces from Brianne Brennan. Back-to-back kills from
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  German and Wilken extended that steamer's lead to 198. Seconds later, a
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  tip from Wilken and a German shot that could not be returned
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  pushed the contest to 21-10. A couple of blocks that went wide
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  and then a miscommunication on the storm's part helped the steamers close
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  out the match. German led with fifteen kills, while Wilkin added ten,
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  while Brennan had seventeen digs, and German twelve for the steamers. Bureau
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  Valley finishes august first, twenty six.