After a thrilling five-set win over St. Paul Highland Park in the section quarterfinals Tuesday, Park ran into a superior team Friday and fell to top-seeded St. Paul Central in boys' volleyball.
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After a thrilling five-set win over St. Paul Highland Park in the section quarterfinals Tuesday, Park ran into a superior team Friday and fell to top-seeded St. Paul Central in boys' volleyball.
St. Paul Central scored a hard-fought 25-16, 18-25, 25-28 and 25-18 victory over the visiting Wolfpack in the Class 1A, Section 3 semifinal.
Park ends the season with a 13-16 record. The Wolfpack were 6-3 in the Suburban East Conference this season, finishing tied for fourth in the league.
Playing at Highland Park on Tuesday, May 27, Park scored a hard-fought competitive win in five games, 26-28, 25-18, 25-23, 21-25 and 17-15.
It was drama and lots of competitive action throughout, including in the fifth set where Highland Park took an early four-point lead.
“A good game, good five sets,” said Park head coach Robert Losinski-McLean. “I told them that, first I believed in them, and that if I could bet on any team to crawl out of this deficit, I’m betting on them. We’ve seen it throughout the season. When we play our peak volleyball, we might be down, four, five or six points, and we have crawled back and won. And so, I told them No.1, I believed in them. And I told them No. 2 that they have the skill, the volleyball IQ and the energy ad momentum to do their jobs out there on that court and crawl back out of this and they executed every time.”
“I mean the energy throughout the entire game was insane,” said Park senior Leo Eiden-Giel. “We would go down, they had some good hitters, and they’d get a good hit and we would just bounce right back. We wouldn’t let them get in our heads at all. And so, I really like the team for that, I love them.”
“I feel just proud of every one of my teammates, we didn’t give up the entire game, and it’s a great win,” said senior Gavin Oberding.
“I think just overall this whole season has been so tense,” said junior Owen Griswold. “Just being able to go out here and actually win for once. All of our games we’ve gotten so close and then lost by two points or something like that. It’s really great.”
St. Paul Central (18-7) advanced to the section championship and a matchup with second-seeded Eagan (21-8) Thursday.
