Last home games of the season

The Patriots finished up their regular season this evening with victories over Quentin Road and LaLumiere.

After the JVa team opened up the afternoon/evening's activities with a three-game loss to Quentin Road, the varsity played Quentin Road's varsity. The Patriots played Quentin Road early in the year at their place. In that contest, our girls dropped the first game before winning the next two to take the Illinois-rule two-out-of-three match.

Tonight was a little different. Calumet/Calvary started out slowly. The teams were even through 10-10, then Quentin Road took the next two points and went ahead 12-10. It was all Patriots after that, as they outscored Quentin Road 15-4 to close out the game, 25-16. The second game was a mirror-image of the first. Cal/Cal fell behind 12-10, then went on another 15-4 run to win again, 25-16. The third game was closely contested throughout. Quentin Road took a 24-21 lead and it looked like the teams were going to play a fourth. But after three straight points the girls pulled even at 24. Back and forth it went from there until Cal/Cal closed it out with an exclamation point (BIG HIT) by Faith, 28-26.

After the seniors were honored, JVb took the floor to play the LaLumiere JV team. After a two-game sweep by our girls, the varsity took the the floor. LaLumiere was overmatched, and the Patriots won 25-8, 25-8, 25-12.

I announced that Faith was the second-leading ace producer in the NW Indiana region following the game. Here is the website if you want to check it out for yourselves:
http://nwi.com/varsity/?show=leaders&sport_id=6&off_column=total_serves_aces&off_desc=0&limit_num=25.

We say goodbye to Lake Hills for the season (Well, us parents do. The team has a couple of practices yet.) Another great regular season is now complete. We look forward to a successful national tournament in Erie, PA next week.