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Coal City in control throughout straight-sets 2A regional title win over Seneca · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Whole city in control throughout two a regional title win over Seneca.
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  by Everlet. There were times, as late as ten all in the
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  opening set and twenty all in the second, the host Kohlers found
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  themselves knotted up against top-seeded Seneca in Thursday's Class IIA Col City
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  Regional Championship match. There was never a time, however, when Coal City
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  didn't seem to be in control. I felt like that too, Cole
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  City coach Pam McMurtry said after her Colors 25-21-25-22 victory Thursday over
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  conference rival Seneca. Even the other day when we played to a
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  three-set victory over upset-minded Pontiac, we had to come back a few
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  times. Tonight our girls just stayed on top of it. They wanted
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  it. They felt they needed to be in control. And they did
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  it. They did it the whole time, so we're so proud of
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  them. Coal City 22 and 12, advances to Tuesday's Class II, a
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  Pontiac Sectional Semifinal, opening against Tri-Valley. Seneca, which led multiple times early
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  in both sets but succumbed to long Cole City service runs in
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  both, sees its season end at 28-6. It's pretty simple. They played
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  a really good game. Fighting Irish coach Noah Champaign said of the
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  Kohlers, who Seneca will join in the Illinois Central Eight Conference next
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  year. Their passing was on point, their serving was consistent, they played
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  outstanding at the net, the managed to stay in system a lot.
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  It seemed like every time we tried to mount a little bit
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  of a comeback, they'd have an answer, and eliminate our little runs
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  we went on. I told the girls, sometimes it's just not your
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  night. Coal City is a really good team, a young team playing
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  with a lot of confidence, and we knew this would be a
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  tough one. Good for them. They deserve the win tonight, but I'm
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  definitely proud of the way our girls played tonight, proud of our
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  seniors. We battled throughout. Like I told them, this doesn't change what
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  they accomplished throughout the year. The two lengthy Cole City service run
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  in each set which put the hosts firmly in control, came courtesy
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  of junior Ashlyn Siron in the first set and freshman Leah Aldridge
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  in the second. Siron's was an eight-point run featuring three aces and
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  kills from Sidney Jones and Aldridge that flipped a 1412 advantage to
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  2012. Aldridge's six point run in the second set featured an Avery
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  Hodgin block and a Margaret Carlson kills, that turned a 9-8 Seneca
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  lead into a 14-9 Kohler's advantage. I felt like the girls were
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  able to take a breath for a second and get that mental
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  toughness fully back, McMurtry said. We needed those runs. It was amazing.
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  Siren four aces, six digs, twelve assists, Hodgen seven digs, three kills,
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  Darcy latus five assists, four kills, two blocks, Carlson eight digs five
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  kills, and Aldridge four kills spearheaded the Coal City attack. Hodgin had
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  set point in the opening set and Carlson set point with a
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  kill in the second. I'm so excited, said Hodgin. One of just
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  two seniors on the Kohlers roster, Liv Walacek being the other. Our
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  team came together and we won as a team. It's awesome. I
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  think the whole team knew we were kind of the better team,
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  and we always kept saying that and practiced and worked super hard
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  for this. So I think we deserve it. Seneca's Grayson Provants, seventeen
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  assists, five kills, two blocks, Frankie Myers, seven kills, Emma Mino, eighteen
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  digs, and Hayden Pfeiffer, three aces, two kills, were among six fighting
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  Irish seniors who finished their prep volleyball careers. Junior outside hitter Brooklyn
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  Sheedy added nine kills.