SO. SECTION DIV. IV-AA: FLINTRIDGE ABLE TO CONQUER THE GREAT UNKNOWN F-S HEART 3, PARACLETE 0.Byline: Ramona Shelburne Ramona Shelburne is an American sports journalist currently writing for the Los Angeles Daily News. Shelburne was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. She attended El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, California where she was a class valedictorian. Staff Writer Flintridge-Sacred Heart girls' volleyball volleyball, outdoor or indoor ball and net game played on a level court. An upright net, 3 ft (or 1 m) high, the top of which stands 8 ft (2.43 m) from the ground for men, 7 ft 4 1/8 in (2. coach Nancy Tinkham didn't know much about Paraclete of Lancaster coming into the teams' first-round Southern Section Division IV-AA playoff play·off also play-off n. Sports 1. A final game or series of games played to break a tie. 2. A series of games played to determine a championship. Noun 1. match on Thursday. But as it turned out, ignorance was bliss as the second-seeded Tologs (18-4) blew past visiting Paraclete 15-1, 15-9, 15-1 to advance to the quarterfinals. ``All I knew about Paraclete was that No. 10 (Angela Hupp) was the granddaughter of a very good friend of my grandmother,'' Tinkham said. Flintridge-Sacred Heart made such quick work of Paraclete, the win was overshadowed by the college announcement of Tologs senior outside hitter Jillian Davis, who committed to play for California next season. Davis is a two-time All-Division IV-AA selection. ``It came down to the East Coast versus the West Coast,'' said Davis, who also considered Notre Dame Notre Dame IPA: [nɔtʁ dam] is French for Our Lady, referring to the Virgin Mary. In the United States of America, Notre Dame and Duke. ``And in the end, I just wanted to stay out here.'' Paraclete (13-4) took the first point of the first game, but that was as close as it would get in the first game as Flintridge-Sacred Heart ran off 15 consecutive points to take an early 1-0 lead in games. In the second game, Paraclete jumped out to a 5-1 lead and led 8-6, when the Tologs rallied behind Davis to win 15-9. Davis recorded her 300th kill of the season on a sideout that set up game point for the Tologs. She finished the match with eight kills and 13 digs. ``That tends to happen when you beat someone 15-1,'' Tinkham said. ``You tend to come out not as strong, and they took advantage of that. Fortunately, we realized we couldn't keep making that many mistakes, and we came around.'' Paraclete could not muster TO MUSTER, mar. law. By this term is understood to collect together and exhibit soldiers and their arms; it also signifies to employ recruits and put their names down in a book to enroll them. any more fight after that as Flintridge-Sacred Heart rolled through the third game to close out the match. Davis put an exclamation point exclamation point: see punctuation. exclamation point - exclamation mark on the night with an ace on match point. ``Somebody's going to look at these scores and think I'd be bothered about it. Actually, I'm pretty happy with how we played. We got beat by a far-superior team tonight,'' Paraclete coach Margaret Neill said. ``I've been on the CIF (1) (Common Intermediate Format) A standard video format used in videoconferencing. CIF formats are defined by their resolution, and standards both above and below the original resolution have been established. The original CIF is also known as Full CIF (FCIF). Selection Committee for 22 years, and I seeded Flintridge No. 2, so I knew they were a very good team. I hope they make it all the way to the end.'' Senior setter setter: see sporting dog. setter Any of three breeds derived from a medieval hunting dog that would set (lie down) when it found birds so that it and the birds could be covered with a net. Setters have long hair on the ears, chest, legs, and tail. Kacey Knauf finished with 23 assists, seven digs and eight blocks for the Tologs. Middle blocker Kathryn Gorsch led all Tologs with nine kills. |
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