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Anna Hjerpe’s big night leads Serena past Somonauk in 1A regional · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Anna Sherp's Big Knight leads Serena Past Somanac in 1A regional. Written
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  by Brian Hoxy. This article is being read by an automated voice,
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  brought to you by Everlet. Serena Sr. Anna Shirp entered Tuesday's Class
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  1 A Serena Volleyball Regional Quarterfinal match against Somonac, knowing she was
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  a couple of kills away from a fantastic individual milestone. I knew
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  I needed three kills to reach 1000, but to be honest, I
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  kind of forgot about it when the match started, Herpes said. It
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  wasn't really a goal when I started high school, but I think
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  midway through last season I started thinking it was a goal I
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  could reach. I'm also really happy that I could do it here
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  in my home gym. Sherpey recorded the milestone kill early in the
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  opening set and eventually finished with eleven in the match to help
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  subsectional number three seeded Serena May 2nd twenty four defeat number fourteen
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  seeded Somonok fourteen and thirteen in straight sets twenty five nineteen twenty
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  five thirteen on Alstegman Court. Reaching this number of kills is very
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  exciting to me, but I couldn't have done it without all the
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  help from all my teammates I've had over the past four years,
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  Sharp said. I've been really fortunate to play with some really good
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  players and very good setters to help me along the way. Serena
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  advances to Wednesday's 7 p.m. Semifinal against number 6 seeded Putnam County,
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  which topped Earlville in the night's second match. The Huskers used five
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  kills by Herp and a pair of aces by Brindley Glade to
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  explode to a 13-2 first set lead. A kill by Madeline Sturgey
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  extended the advantage to 17-4. Somonok bounced back using three kills from
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  Shaney King and two more from Adie Werner to close to within
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  2118, but from there Serena scored our of the final five points,
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  two on kills by Sturchy and a block by Parker Twaite. We
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  talked in practice on Monday about how we had to make sure
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  we blocked strong on Solman Sok's outside hitters, Shirp said. We wanted
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  to try and take away the line and make them hit the
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  ball cross court. Serena coach Chris Bjork said if we could do
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  that, that our defense would take care of the rest. Serena jumped
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  out to leads of eleven five and nineteen eight in the second
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  set. The Bobcats got as close as twenty one twelve on a
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  kill by Jaden Land, but again the hosts captured four. Of the
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  last five points, one on an ace by Herp, and a kill
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  by Sturchy closing out the match. Sturchy matched Sherp with 11 kills
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  and had six service points in the match, while Glade finished with
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  14 digs, a pair of aces and 5 points. Twaite fulfill 4
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  blocks, Alexa McNally, 2 kills, 5 digs, and Maddie Young, 6 digs,
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  21 assists, also had solid outings. Werner led Somanak with six kills
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  while King added four, Brookberry added a pair of aces. We were
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  definitely out of sync at the beginning of The first set. Somonok
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  coach Christy Prusky said. We were missing one of our starting seniors
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  tonight, and this season we've had a few instances when things aren't
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  close to perfect. We panick a little. I feel like once we
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  settled down we played pretty well, but we just couldn't find the
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  consistency we needed. We were coming off playing really well and winning
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  the Ashton Franklin Center tournament on Saturday, so I felt we were
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  where we needed to be coming into tonight, but we just never
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  really got everything clicking at the same time. The girls the girls
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  fought really hard, but it just wasn't meant to be for us
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  tonight.