HT Girls Volleyball Season Ends with Loss to Francis Parker

The 2016 campaign came to and end for the Lady Tigers October 25th as Holy Trinity fell to Francis Parker by scores of 25-12, 25-18 in the River Grove, Mother Guerin 2A state regional.
For the contest, HT was led by Mya McKennie (4 kills) and Cierra Gardner (4 kills, one block). Kurteshia Singleton added 2 kills and Cristina Guzman had 10 set assists.
Missed serves and unforced errors seemed to take the steam out of the Lady Tiger attack in game one. HT missed seven opening game serves and were never really a factor.
Game two saw more of a spark from the 4th-seeded Tigers, but Francis Parker withstood each of Holy Trinity's advances and put the second game away by a seven point margin to end any plans of HT advancing.

SERVING STATS: Holy Trinity: 32 serve atts.; 23 made for a 72% avg. with only two ace serves on the night.
Francis Parker: 51 atts.; 47 made for a 92% avg and two ace serves.
HT STATS: KILLS: Gardner 4; McKennie 4; Sakayah Garity 1; & Fatima Oliatan 1 total. HT DIGS: Guzman 4; Fernanda Anaya 4; Viviana Quezada 3; Garity 2. HT SERVE RECEPTION: 43 serves received; 29 to setter for a 67% avg. or a 1.55 rank.

Overall, HT finished with a 15-7* record and were 2-3 in the GCAC Blue Divison (4th place).
GCAC BLUE: Queen of Peace 5-0; St. Joseph (WC) 4-1); St. Benedict 3-2; Holy Trinity 2-3; Josephinum 1-4; SFDS 0-5.

Two Lady Tigers Named to the Girls Catholic Athletic Blue Division All-Conference Volleyball team:
Senior Cristina Guzman and junior hitter Sakayah Garity garnered recognition to the nine-person GCAC Blue Division All-Conference squad. They join Kayla Domio and Genna Foster of Westchester St. Joseph; Haley Doyle and Maddie Fogarty of Burbank Queen of Peace; Timberlynn Fisher of St. Francis de Sales; Rhea Omandam of St. Benedict and Jessica Thiel of Josephinum Academy.
The GCAC Blue Player of the Year was Maddie Fogarity of Peace.

FUTURE OUTLOOK: The Tigers do graduate six seniors from this year's squad but with eight returning, the squad does have a nucleus to build upon for the 2017 campaign.
Seniors graduating include Kurteshia Singleton, Mya McKennie, Nia Lang, setter Cristina Guzman; libero Fernanda Anaya and hitter Cecily Grasidlo.
The returning players include: juniors Sakayah Garity, Fatima Olaitan, Sui Len, Viviana Quezada, Silvia Lepe, Breanne Cruz and sophomores Cierra Gardner and Karol Gonzalez.

HT Athletics posted at 1:02 PM 10/27/2016.

*NOTE: the 15th win came versus CICS Chicago Quest prior to the start of the state playoffs.

updated at 12:46PM 10/28/16.