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  Yorkville volleyball knocks off Oswego for first conference victory. Written by Skylar
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  Casellus. This article is being read by an automated voice, brought to
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  you by Everlit. Yorkville volleyball coach Ryan Donato admitted, his team got
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  a little too confident on Tuesday night. Leading 22-14 in the second
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  set, after winning a competitive first set 25-18 against Oswego, the Foxes
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  appeared close to putting away a Vaunted Panthers squad. But late game
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  jitters left the door open for the Panthers, who put together a
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  nine two run to pull within one twenty four twenty three with
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  Yorkville on match point. With victory within reach, Yorkville had to remember
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  its mission to vanquish its regional rival. We ball knew deep down
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  how badly we wanted to beat them, and we all came together,
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  Senior Riley Springbourne said. So when Springbourne saw her opportunity on the
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  following rally, she took it. The pin hitter drove the ball into
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  a gap in the Oswego block, and They celebration was instant as
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  the Foxes. 9-7-11 SPC completed the 25-18-25-23
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  sweep in Yorkville to earn their first conference win of the season.
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  It feels great, Donato said. This is a game that the kids
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  really get hyped for. They look forward to this game every year.
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  It's a good competitive rivalry. We game planned a lot Monday, we
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  game planned before, came into the gym today, and I really think
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  we executed that game plan. Springbourne led with eight kills on.235 hitting,
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  seven digs, and two aces. Audrey Knoll showed efficiency with six kills
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  on.500 hitting. Emma Martin added eleven assists and seven digs. For Oswego
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  125-1-1 SPC, Hannah Herrick led with eight kills, for digs and a
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  blocks Sarah Gillio followed with seven kills and two digs, and Amelia
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  Mosley recorded 12 digs. Elena Massey and Lily Roller each had seven
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  assists. I thought they outplayed us. Oswego coach Gary Mosley said. They
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  took over the front line for a while, their blocks were happening,
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  our blocks were not, their swings were happening, our swings were not.
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  At the end of the day, they went up front for a
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  while, we went up front for a while, but they pulled it
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  out in them end. Both teams came out firing to start the
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  match, finding themselves deadlocked at 17-12, after the first 24 rallies. Half
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  of the Panthers dozen points came off six attack errors by Yorkville
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  It's hard that we were scoring points four ourselves in Oswego, Donado
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  said. So we were giving them a ton of points. The Foxes
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  proceeded to win the next five rallies to go up 1712, later
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  extending their advantage to 2114. Oswego responded with a 4-0 run, cutting
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  the deficit to 2118 and prompting Yorkville to call a timeout. Yorkville
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  then won four straight points to close the set, Springbourne's ace brought
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  up match point, and Gileo's ensuing attack error sealed the frame. Honestly
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  we weren't expecting them to come out as strong as they did,
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  Springbourne said. But The we finally realized that we need to come
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  out stronger, and I think everything started clicking. The team again battled
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  through an even start in the second set, reaching a 4-4 tie
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  before the Foxes began to pull away. Yorkville led 13-7 by the
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  time Oswego calmed its first timeout and extended the advantage to 2014
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  at the second. The Foxes soon went up 22-14 for their largest
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  lead of the night. As the
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  Panthers battled back, the foxes regrouped and regained their focus. After every
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  point we would come together in the middle, tell each other to
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  calm down, because we were playing really frantically, Springbourne said. I feel
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  like once we calmed down, everything was good from there. Yorkville cemented
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  its victory shortly thereafter, marking its second straight win over the Panthers
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  after beating them 2 1 last year in Oswego. Though the Panthers
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  late surge came up short, Mosley said the effort was testament to
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  his team's resilience. They have the heart any team needs to be
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  a top level team in the postseason, Moseley said. They have that
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  and those are the moments that they have it. There's no reason,
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  though, that we need to be that deep in a hole to
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  show we have that.