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  Princeton volleyball bested by host IVC in regional final after strong start
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  by Everlet. The
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  Princeton Girls volleyball team showed up ready to compete in Thursday's Class
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  2A Regional Championship match at Illinois Valley Central, enjoying a strong start
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  before the hosts took control of the match and pulled away for
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  a 25-17-2515 victory. The Tigresses were the sharper team in the early
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  going, as a kill and a block by Danica Burden on consecutive
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  points closed a 5-1 run to start the contest. We saw the
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  previously this season, and I think the improvement from the to now,
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  it might not show it in the box score, but if you
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  watch them play, you can tell the difference, said Princeton coach Libby
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  Boyles. I'm very proud of my girls tonight for The way that
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  they played. They showed up ready for the game. There weren't really
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  any nerves. A four-point rally on the serve of Caitlin Gilchrist pushed
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  the Grey Ghosts, 31-6, to their first lead at 10-9, though Princeton
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  countered and quickly retook the advantage 11-10 on Colby Lawson's kill. The
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  hosts, however, countered with a 5-point run, getting 3 kills from Jace
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  Taylor as The
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  scored 15 of the final 21 points of the set. We definitely
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  didn't come out so hot, but we ended up picking it up,
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  IVC coach Ashley Klug said. Our middles did a great job blocking
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  and hitting, and that helped us gain some momentum going into The
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  second set. The Ghosts opened the second set
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  a step ahead, scoring the first four points and leading throughout. IVC
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  middle hitter Rihanna Foster put up five of her match high, eight
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  kills in the second frame, as the home team used a 5-1
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  run to extend its lead into double digits at 19-9. The loss
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  ends the Tigris season, Boyles first as head coach, with an overall
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  record of seventeen and seventeen. We set a goal of a.500 season
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  a couple weeks into the season, Boyle said. That's exactly that we
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  came out with today. Maybe the season stopped before we wanted it
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  to, but we hit our goal as a team. We had really
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  good growth in confidence and ability, and that really what the game
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  is meant to be, to be able to see improvement from the
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  beginning of the year to the end. Sometimes you've got to give
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  props to the players that don't always see the court. They are
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  still showing up to practice every day, making the girls that do
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  get to see that playing time better. So big props to my
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  girls that maybe didn't see the playing time they wanted to see
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  this year. Lawson finished with five kills to Pace Princeton, which got
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  four blocks from Burden and seven assists from Ava Kyle. Peyton Harden
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  totaled eleven assists. The Grey Ghosts, who advanced to take on Quincy
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  Notre Dame in next week's sectional at Farmington, got seven digs from
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  Reeseunt and three blocks from Taylor.