HT Lady Tigers Move To Chicago Prep Volleyball Title match

The Holy Trinity Lady Tigers will play for their second consecutive Chicago Prep volleyball title match Thursday October 18th at 6:30 p.m.
The opponent will be determined from playoff action scheduled for Wednesday night (October 17).
That part of the bracket, of Wednesday night, features three matches to be contested at Cristo Rey Jesuit High School 1852 W. 22nd Place -- Just one block east of Cermak and Damen Avenues.
A 4:30 p.m. match between #4 seed Hope Academy and #5 Prov/St. Mel; a 5:30pm match between #1 seed Walther Christian and #9 Christ the King. And a 6:30 p.m. match featuring the winners of the 4:30 and 5:30 p.m. matches.

CHAMPIONSHIP ROUND:
Thursday October 17 @ Cristo Rey Jesuit:
A 5:00 p.m. Third Place match; followed by the presentation of All-Conference awards/ Player of the Year/ Coach of the Year honors and
A 6:30 p.m. Title match.

HOLY TRINITY RESULTS @ Cristo Rey October 16:
HT defeats Josephinum in the quarterfinal match:
The first half of the playoff bracket saw the Tigers capture two victories October 16. The first was in the quarterfinal round victory where HT defeated #7 seed Josephinum by scores of 25-19 and 25-12.
The Lady Tigers featured: Rachel Asante (5 kills); Cece Gardner (4 kills); Angela Ponce (2 kills); Evelyn Padilla (seven service points); Star Brooks (4 kills and seven service points) and Karol Gonzalez (17 set assists, 8 service points with five aces).
HT SERVING: 48 attempts with 45 made for a 94% average and 14 ace serves. JOSEPHINUM SERZVING: 29 attempts with 26 made for a 90% average with two aces.

HT (17-6 overall) defeats Cristo Rey in the semifinal round by scores of 26-24, 25-20:
The Tigers were down and looking out in game one of this semifinal match versus the Cristeras. In fact HT trailed 1-11 and 9-18 before scratching their way back with timely hitting, basic defense and great serving efforts to eliminate the early deficits and close to 13-18 as Libero Moshay Turner
served points 11 to 13 to close the gap to five.
From here HT's Karol Gonzalez narrowed the gap to one at 19-20 in Cristo Rey's favor gaining service points 16 to 19 for the Tigers.
The Cristeras regained some momentum and moved to a 3-point advantage of 21-24 forcing HT mentor and coach Marcelina Tokarczyk to call a timeout. This seemed to energize the Tigers who gained a sideout on a kill by Rachel Asante to the right corner of the the Cristo Rey court and allowed Star Brooks to begin a 4-point service run which featured 2 kills by Asante and one from Cece Gardner to take game one by the 26-24 margin.

Game two was nip-and-tuck thru the first full rotation of both teams with Cristo Rey holding a 10-8 advantage.

It was tied at 13-all before HT's Brooks ran off points 16 to 22 on timely serving.
Cristo Rey then closed to 23-19 with two quick service points before HT's Angela Ponce closed out the 2nd game serving points 24 and 25 for the win that advanced the Lady Tigers to the title match.

MATCH SUMMARY: Rachel Asante (6 kills, two blocks); Cece Gardner (6 kills); Angela Ponce (11 service points); Moshay Turner (five digs and
a kill); Karol (14 set assists; 6 service points, 5 aces) and Evelyn Padilla (1 kill). HT SERVING: 49 attempts with 43 made for an 88%
average and 12 aces. CRISTO REY SERVING: 28 attempts with 23 made for an 82% average and 7 aces.

HT Athletics by T. Poprawski posted 10/16/2018 @ 11:06 PM 10/16/2018.