Volleyball season comes to an end at North Star High School
- Ron Giofu
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The season is over for both the senior and junior girls volleyball teams at North Star High School.
The seasons for the two teams ended within two days of each other last week. The teams can each take consolation in the fact that they both lost to the top seeds in their respective leagues.
Following a stirring preliminary round win in the WECSSAA “AA” senior girls playoffs at Assumption the week before, the ninth-seeded Wolves headed to Belle River Feb. 10 to battle the top seeded Nobles.
Belle River ended up winning the best-of-five quarterfinal match in three straight sets. The scores were 25-9, 25-10 and 25-10.
The junior Wolves, the fourth seed in their playoffs, also played Belle River Feb. 10 with that match being in Amherstburg. The Nobles entered the playoffs as the twelfth seed.
The Wolves used lengthy runs in both of the first two sets to propel themselves to victory. After Belle River scored the first point of the match, North Star scored the next ten and ended up winning the first set 25-20.
The second set followed a similar formula and ended up with North Star winning 25-15.
The Wolves couldn’t close it out in the third set, as the Nobles hung around and played well and won that set 25-23. North Star regained control in the fourth set and eliminated Belle River with a 25-17 victory.
“I’m proud of the girls,” Wolves head coach Morgan Hadfield said after the Feb. 10 match. “They came together and rallied. They did the job.”
The Wolves “lost a little bit of focus” in the third set against Belle River, but pulled it together and won the decisive fourth set, Hadfield added.
Hadfield said the juniors were a “loud group” that supported and motivated each other all season.
“It’s kind of fun to watch,” she said.
North Star travelled to Tecumseh to battle top seeded L’Essor two days later in a WECSSAA “AA” semi-final matchup. Despite three competitive sets, L’Essor won all three of them and ended North Star’s season. The scores were 25-18, 25-22 and 25-21.
Volleyball season comes to an end at North Star High School
By Ron Giofu