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Lexie Grevengoed, Joliet West top Oswego in three-set thriller, win Southwest Prairie title · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Lexi Grevengoad, Joliet West, Top Oswego and Three-Set Thriller win Southwest Prairie
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  title. Written by Skylar Cassellus This article is being read by an
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  automated voice brought to you by Everlit. Joliet West's star outside hitter
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  has played plenty of matches throughout her high school volleyball career. She's
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  consistently had video game type numbers and helped the Tigers capture multiple
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  championships. But for Lexi Grevengode, nothing beats what happened Tuesday night in
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  Oswego. Greven Good, a junior committed to Valparaiso, racked up a match
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  high, 23 kills with a 0.58 hitting percentage to lead Joliet West
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  to a thrilling three-set road victory. 25-22, 28-30, 25-23
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  over the Panthers. And the Tigers earned their third Southwest Prairie Conference
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  title in for seasons. This is definitely the best one that I've
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  played, Grevin said. So I'm just super excited we won. We just
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  put the ball down every time, went for everything, we didn't let
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  anything drop. Grevengoat accounted for more than half of Joliet West's 30
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  and 310 0 SPC 41 kills as two of the area's top
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  offenses battled for 153 rallies. Fellow Junior Nariah Otman added eight kills
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  and nine digs. Senior setter Julia Adams orchestrated the Tiger offense with
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  36 assists, 5 digs, and 2 aces. Lexi had a great game.
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  Nariah had some good moments too. Our setter Adams did an incredible
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  job putting them in great positions for that. Joliet West coach Christopher
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  Lincoln
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  said. This definitely was a game of the offenses. Oswego 21 and
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  9, 7 and 3 SPC had plenty of firepower of its own,
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  with Hannah Herrick and Sarah Gileo at
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  the forefront. Herrick led with 16 kills along with 3 blocks. Gileo
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  had 11 kills and 5 service aces. You've got to respect those
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  hitters over there, Lincoln said. Those two outsides are probably two of
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  the best outsides in the state, And you've got to respect what
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  they can do. The Panthers put that firepower on display early, building
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  a sixteen ten lead in the first set. Grevengoed had been turned
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  away at the net multiple times early, but after a brief stoppage
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  to allow a Joliet West player to get bandaged, the hitter found
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  another gear. She got blocked a couple times, so I think that
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  kind of ignited a little fire in her, Lincoln said. And ever
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  since that, she just kept swinging and never looked back. The Tigers
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  came out of the break with a 5 0 run, eventually pulling
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  even at twenty. Grevengo delivered three more kills down the stretch to
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  help Joliet West take the set 25-22. I told Julia, feed me
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  the ball, and I put down some good shots, Grevengote said. The
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  second set was the epitome of a barn burner. Neither team led
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  by more than three points as the lead switched hands eight times,
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  with the battle stretching past 25. Tied at 28, Oswego broke through
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  with a kill from Guilio followed by an Elena Massa Ace, to
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  take them.
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  Set 3028 and even the match. Massey was one of five seniors
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  the Panthers honored during Senior Night, along with Herrick, Morgan Esbjorn, Amelia
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  Mosley, and Danny Brooks. This group wanted this match on their senior
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  night, Oswego coach Gary Mosley said. I'm proud of the for their
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  effort. They knew it was going to be a battle, and it's
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  no guarantee to win. I love that about The They want challenges,
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  them accept challenges, and that's what I love about them. After Gileo
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  recorded a kill and a block to open the third set, Joliet
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  West cruised into the lead with a 5-0 run and eventually reached
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  a 12-6 advantage. The Panthers showed the same resilience as their opponents,
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  fighting back to tie the set at twenty-two, but a lily roller
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  service error, Azwego's fifth of the frame, promptly restored Joliet West's lead.
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  Otman called game three rallies later with her match winning kill. I
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  was so excited, Grevengoats had said. The fact that we sum by
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  two points and just didn't let up the whole game. I thought
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  we played with a lot of energy and confidence, and every time
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  that they would get a point, I think we bounced back really
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  well and stayed aggressive the whole game. With the victory, Joliet West
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  extended its conference winning streak to twenty one matches, its last defeat
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  dating back to the twenty twenty four regular season finale against Oswego.
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  The Panthers, meanwhile, suffered their first home loss of the season. We
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  knew we were better, and we had moments to show that, and
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  we just couldn't finish at the end, Moseley said. So hats off
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  to them. Each team has two regular season matches left before ISA
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  Regionals next week, where the SPC Champion Tigers will look to win
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  their fifth straight regional title under Lincoln. It feels great, Greven Goad
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  said. Everyone's super proud of each other. I'm super proud of everyone,
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  and I can't wait for regionals.