The Visor

Girls volleyball looking for a pay off in the playoffs

April 5, 2011

Katie Caprez, Staff Reporter

With regularseason play behind them, the Hoban girls volleyball team has one big dream: to win a state championship. A loss at districts cut last season’s playoff run short. This year, the high-energy team feels their drive and team chemistry will be the keys to a successful post-season.
The squad feels their passion was key in their success over rival NDCL.

“That game was won purely on intensity,” Christina Dickos said.
Dickos and her fellow seniors, Tabitha Brainard, Chelsea Evans, Emily Orsini, Paige Parson, Kelsey Radabaugh, and Jessica Walpole, were pinnacles of team’s intensity and skill on their special night.
“They did the program proud; they are the epitome of what Hoban vol leybal l is about,”Freshman coach Deb Stewart said.
Stewart has watched many of the seniors grow from budding ninth-graders to the vibrant players they are today.

Coming off their senior night victory, the Knights successfully defeated the Green Bulldogs. Both teams donned pink jerseys to support the “Dig for the Cure” effort. Proceeds from a bake sale and raffle supplemented the team’s donation to the American Cancer Society.

The team finished the season with a winning record of 13-9.

With a satisfactory regular season behind them, the dynamic team is eager to begin postseason play.

“We should definitely win the first game,” senior Jessica Walpole said.
Walpole and the rest of the team are eagerly anticipating battling rival St. Vincent-St. Mary in their quest for a state championship.
For more than a third of the team, this year’s high school playoff run will be their last high school.

“Everything we’ve put into making practices and games this season successful will pay off,” Walpole said.

The team wants to insure that this year, they finally get that “pay off” in the playoffs. Results from Thursday night’s playoff game were not available
at press time.

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