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Sara Gilio, Hannah Herrick overwhelm Glenbard East as Oswego captures fourth straight regional title · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Sara Gilio Hannah Herrick’s overwhelm Glenbard East as Oswego captures fourth straight
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  regional title. Written by Skylar Cassellus This article is being read
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  by an automated voice, brought to you by Everlet. Sarah Gileo and
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  Hannah Herrick's chemistry on the volleyball court dates back long before their
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  days dominating at Oswego. Gilio and Herrick were preteens when they started
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  their volleyball careers at Dicktown Volleyball Academy, a Kendall County based youth
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  volleyball club. Herrick later moved on to sports performance volleyball in Aurora
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  and Gilio followed a year later. They we’re also teammates at Traubber
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  Junior High. She's been somebody I've looked up to since I was
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  little, Gillio said. She's been my friend since I was little, but
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  now she's like my sister, because now we're on the same court
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  together. That sisterhood has carried over to the high school level where
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  the two have piloted one of the region's premier offenses. On Thursday,
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  they were the 1-2 punch that knocked out Glenbard East, 25-23-25-7 in
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  the Class 4 A Oswego regional title match, leading the Panthers 24-9
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  to their fourth straight regional championship. All of those titles have come
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  under fourth year coach Gary Mosley. This is what's fun about it,
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  Mosley said. Watching these girls compete, watching everything they've done come together.
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  It's watching it all pay off for The That's where I get
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  excited. This one's just as special as the other three Gillio, who
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  racked up 19 kills in Tuesday's three-set win over rival Oswego East
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  in the regional semifinals, was in command once again. The junior tallied
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  11 kills on.625 hitting, adding eight digs, and four aces three consecutively.
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  Herrick, a senior committed to Dayton, poured in eight kills, five digs,
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  two aces and a block, though not her usual video game numbers,
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  her impact was felt beyond the stat sheet. It's obvious what she
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  means to us, but I don't think people see other intangibles that
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  she does that keep us going, Moseley said. She means the world
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  to this program, she means the world to me. Senior Elena Massey
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  and junior Lily Rowler helped orchestrate The offense, with Massey recording 10
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  assists and Roller adding seven. Libero Amelia Mosley finished with six digs
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  and an ace. But Gillio and Herrick were them. Match's biggest threats.
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  When one was making plays, the other wasn't far behind. The Rams,
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  thirteen and twenty three, knew they'd be a problem from The get
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  go. We were trying to stack out there and get any hand
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  we could on both of them. Glenbard East coach Bradley Cardot said,
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  them in system? That's a hard team to stop, just with the
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  amount of offensive firepower they have. The Panthers were indeed hard to
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  stop, jumping out to a 7-2 lead in the opening set. The
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  advantage grew to 18:13 before Glenbard East battled back to within a
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  point 23-22. Oswego won two of the next three rallies to take
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  the set. Maddie Schmidt and Abby Michelon each finished with four kills
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  and two aces to lead the Rams. Olivia Stevie made four assists
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  and five digs, while Lucy Gapastion added three assists and three digs.
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  They just play a different brand of volleyball, Moseley said. They have
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  people who throw the ball over a little funky at you, and
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  you've got to be ready and adjust. Still Mosley expected a little
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  more excitement from his team after taking the first set. We if
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  you looked at them in the huddle, they looked like They just
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  lost, Mosley said. I'm like Guys, you just want a set in
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  a regional final. Smile a little bit. The players, however, were hardly
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  satisfied. We knew that we were the better team, and we just
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  had to push, Gillio said. We
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  didn't think that it should have been as close as it was.
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  They made sure the second set was a different story. Gileo served
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  up three consecutive aces to help the Panthers jump out to a
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  7 1 lead, prompting a Glen Bardeese timeout. Oswego continued to pull
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  away, extending the margin to twelve two, and eventually twenty seven. We
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  knew the were going to come back and push even harder. Herrick
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  said, so we just had to stay together, stay consistent, and that's
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  what we did. Oswego won the next five rallies, punctuated by a
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  match-winning block from Kara Jansen's to secure the regional title. It means
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  everything, Herrick said. This program is so special. It's different than any
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  other program. Just the work that we put in since June and
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  putting it all together, it means the most to every single one
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  of us. The Panthers advanced to Tuesday's Glenbird West sectional semi-final against
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  host Glenbird West, thirty and six.