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Dunlap upsets La Salle-Peru volleyball in regional championship match · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Dunlap upsets La Salle Peru volleyball in regional championship match. Written by
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  Kevin Schlumber. This article is being read by an automated voice, brought
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  to you by Everlet. In the opening sets, the Dunlap volleyball team
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  scored 11 points in a row to reach set point, but La
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  Salle Peru managed to pull out the set win. In the second
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  and third sets, the number one seeded Cavaliers needed to rally, but
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  the number five Eagles managed to close out both sets to upset
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  LP twenty five twenty seven, twenty five twenty two, twenty five twenty
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  two in the Class III A Dunlap Regional Championship match Thursday in
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  Dunlap. We were really up and down tonight, LP coach Mark Habercorn
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  said. At times we looked really sharp, but we also struggled in
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  all three sets. The first set we had a big lead and
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  they came back but we finished. The second set they had the
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  lead and we came back and almost won. In the third set
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  same thing, we were down fifteen seven and made a run. When
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  you get to the postseason, you never know what's going to happen.
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  It wasn't our best night. But Dunlap played very well. Dunlap attacked
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  tonight and put a lot of pressure on our defense. A lot
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  of times we had a tough time going from defense to offense.
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  Their defense was strong. They just finished two sets and we finished
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  one. The Cavaliers steadily pulled away in the first set, leading by
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  as many as nine points at twenty one twelve before the Eagles
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  stormed back to lead twenty four twenty two. LP standout Aubrey Dutlinger
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  slammed down a back row kill and followed with another kill off
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  the Dunlap block and out of bounds to tie it. After LP
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  senior Maggie Boudreaux had a block roll down the net and out
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  of bounds to give Dunlap a 25-24 lead, she teamed up with
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  Alexis Hines for a block then served an ace before a Dunlap
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  error closed out LP's first set win. It did get a little
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  emotional at the
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  end, but I think we played a pretty simple game all year,
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  so I think that we got into it a little bit and
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  we knew when to calm down and put the ball down, Dutlinger
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  said. However, the Cavaliers couldn't quite close it out in the second
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  and third sets. In the second set, the Cavs trailed 22-15 before
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  a Dunlap service error started a 7-point LP run that tied it.
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  Aubrey Urbanski served two aces during the run, and Dutlinger slammed down
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  three kills. But the Eagles had back to back blocks to force
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  a third set. The Cavs trailed start to finish in they third
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  set but nearly rallied to tie it. LP trailed fifteen seven but
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  pulled within twenty nineteen and twenty-one twenty. Dutlinger got hurt and went
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  to They bench with the Cavs down twenty three twenty. Urbansky put
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  down a kill, and Boudreaux and Hines blocked a shot to pull
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  LP within twenty-four twenty two, but Dunlap, Senior Rebecca Lopez finished the
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  upset kill. At the end, they just played a better game than
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  us, Dutlinger said. They were really scrappy on defense, and I think
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  that's something we haven't seen in a while. They were moving the
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  ball around a lots We just couldn't stop the tonight. We were
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  diving, we gave what we could, we were making really good plays,
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  but we just weren't finishing. Duttleinger led the way for LP with
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  twenty two kills, ten points and eight digs, while Urbansky had twenty-one
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  assists, fifteen points, ten digs and seven kills, Boudreaux had seventeen points
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  and five blocks, and Addy Dawson contributed twenty-two digs. While there were
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  lots of tears among the Cavaliers after the loss, Habercorn said the
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  team has a lot to be proud of this season as LP
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  finished 29th and 7th with a share of the Interstate 8 Conference
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  title. I told them in the huddle, let's not dwell on one
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  match, Habricorn said. We had a great season. When you go to
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  29-7, that's a super season. We won the conference for the third
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  year in a row. We won all 12 home matches. We finished
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  second at the Rockfalls Invite, finished third at the Glenwood Tournament, and
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  fourth at the Limestone Classic. I'm very proud of this team. Also
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  during the season, Haberkorn recorded his 1000th victory at LP and 1,100th
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  coaching win overall, and Dutlinger became LP's all-time leader in career kills.
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  Obviously tonight didn't go They way we wanted it to, but everything
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  leading up to this point. We worked our butts off, every single
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  practice. We had so much fun, so I'm just really proud, Dutlinger
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  said. Dutlinger is one of eight seniors who played their last match
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  for the Cavs along with Heinz, Bodro, Dawson, Shaila Terson, Kenzie Chamberlain,
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  Addison Schwickert, and Maddie Gross. It's going to be hard to say
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  goodbye to our eight seniors, Habricorn said. They did so much for
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  this program. They were the backbone of the team. They were our
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  leaders on and off the court. They were a big reason for
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  our great chemistry. They stepped up all the time.