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By Fred Cay
Special to the Beacon Journal
POSTED: 08:08 p.m. EST, Nov 07, 2009
STOW: The first game cannot decide the winner of a best-of-five volleyball match, but it sure seemed that way Saturday afternoon.
Needing just one more point to take that first game, Walsh Jesuit instead lost the final five to Mentor Lake Catholic. And the Warriors seemingly never recovered as Lake Catholic took a 26-24, 25-18, 25-22 victory in a Division II regional final at Stow High.
Walsh (17-11), which made it to the state tournament in 2005 and 2006, was denied a third trip to the final four. Instead, Lake Catholic (21-6) will head to state for the third time and first since 2002.
Walsh won four out of five points to turn a 20-20 tie into a 24-21 lead in that opening game, but a service error and some uncharacteristic misplays aided Lake Catholic's winning rally, capped by a deciding kill from the Cougars' Chelsey Regovich.
''We've taken pride all year on finishing in those situations, but we just didn't do it today,'' Walsh coach Missy Sturm said. ''Lake Catholic was definitely the better team today. They take care of the ball, and are a very athletic, disciplined team. Their serving was very strong in the first game.''
With two seniors, 6-foot-1 Allison Foschia and 6-2 Katie Meyer, and 6-0 junior Janean Kazimir, Walsh enjoyed a decided edge in height. But Lake Catholic coach Rich Severino has made a living overcoming such disadvantages.
''We could have won it in three, or lost it in three,'' Severino said. ''That first game is just so big. It easily could have gone the other way if we lost that first game.''
After sitting out the first two games, Bridget Wilhelm, a 6-0 junior, helped overcome an early deficit in the third one with three kills and two blocks.
Bridget Gridina, a 5-9 junior standout, led Lake Catholic with 13 kills and four blocks and Audryana Lucha had 27 assists.
A 10-2 scoring run, keyed by the hitting of Gridina and Melanie Patterson, put Lake Catholic ahead 14-8 in the second game. A Meyer-led four-point run cut it to 18-15, but the Cougars responded with four quick points en route to a 25-18 win.
The power game of Foschia, a Duquesne University recruit who finished with 16 kills, helped the Warriors tie it 18-18 in the third game, but more clutch plays from Gridina — including the winning kill — was the difference.
Walsh sophomore setter Michelle Simpson had 32 assists.
''We have persevered,'' said Sturm, in her 17th year as Warriors coach. ''We won five-set matches against Kenston and Salem and jelled in the postseason. I'm proud of the way they came together.''
STOW: The first game cannot decide the winner of a best-of-five volleyball match, but it sure seemed that way Saturday afternoon.
Needing just one more point to take that first game, Walsh Jesuit instead lost the final five to Mentor Lake Catholic. And the Warriors seemingly never recovered as Lake Catholic took a 26-24, 25-18, 25-22 victory in a Division II regional final at Stow High.
Walsh (17-11), which made it to the state tournament in 2005 and 2006, was denied a third trip to the final four. Instead, Lake Catholic (21-6) will head to state for the third time and first since 2002.
Walsh won four out of five points to turn a 20-20 tie into a 24-21 lead in that opening game, but a service error and some uncharacteristic misplays aided Lake Catholic's winning rally, capped by a deciding kill from the Cougars' Chelsey Regovich.
''We've taken pride all year on finishing in those situations, but we just didn't do it today,'' Walsh coach Missy Sturm said. ''Lake Catholic was definitely the better team today. They take care of the ball, and are a very athletic, disciplined team. Their serving was very strong in the first game.''
With two seniors, 6-foot-1 Allison Foschia and 6-2 Katie Meyer, and 6-0 junior Janean Kazimir, Walsh enjoyed a decided edge in height. But Lake Catholic coach Rich Severino has made a living overcoming such disadvantages.
''We could have won it in three, or lost it in three,'' Severino said. ''That first game is just so big. It easily could have gone the other way if we lost that first game.''
After sitting out the first two games, Bridget Wilhelm, a 6-0 junior, helped overcome an early deficit in the third one with three kills and two blocks.
Bridget Gridina, a 5-9 junior standout, led Lake Catholic with 13 kills and four blocks and Audryana Lucha had 27 assists.
A 10-2 scoring run, keyed by the hitting of Gridina and Melanie Patterson, put Lake Catholic ahead 14-8 in the second game. A Meyer-led four-point run cut it to 18-15, but the Cougars responded with four quick points en route to a 25-18 win.
The power game of Foschia, a Duquesne University recruit who finished with 16 kills, helped the Warriors tie it 18-18 in the third game, but more clutch plays from Gridina — including the winning kill — was the difference.
Walsh sophomore setter Michelle Simpson had 32 assists.
''We have persevered,'' said Sturm, in her 17th year as Warriors coach. ''We won five-set matches against Kenston and Salem and jelled in the postseason. I'm proud of the way they came together.''
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Canton, OH
Posted 09:58 PM, 11/07/2009
Parochials. . .
