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    Cardinal’s volleyball team hoped to use Monday’s nonconference game against Gilmour Academy on Monday as a gauge to see how far the Huskies have come since the two teams met in the Division III district finals last fall.

    Kaitlin Bean hammers home a point for the Huskies

    One thing is clear following Gilmour’s 3-0 sweep. The Lancers are just as dominant as they were last season.

    “We were not prepared mentally,” said Cardinal coach Lisa Shirkey. “We weren’t ready for that game. I just told the girls when you play a team of that caliber and you don’t come mentally prepared they’re going to pick you apart. They’re a good team and we needed to be ready.”

    The Lancers won the first game 25-15.

    “Gilmour runs a really quick offense,” Shirkey said. “They ran their quick attacks early on and we lost a lot of points that way. I think that mentally hurt us.”

    It didn’t get better in the second set as the Lancers cruised to a 25-9 win. They won the third set, 25-20.

    Cardinal struggled to set up its offense and several other unforced errors doomed the Huskies.

    “Our passing struggled all night. We could never get an offense going tonight and we never seemed to be able to recover from it,” Shirkey said. “We made a lot of mistakes. We played it safe a lot of times and you can’t do that. We’ve got the players that can hit the ball. We just didn’t bring it tonight.”

    The 2-2 Huskies don’t have any time to feel sorry for themselves. They have to regroup and pick themselves up off the court to play Chagrin Falls on Thursday.

    “They’re going to have to,” Shirkey said.

    The Huskies open league play next week.

     

    Steve Hare
    Steve Harehttps://www.ohiovarsity.com
    The creator and publisher of OhioVarsity.com, Hare has covered high school sports in Northeast Ohio since 1997. He began as a correspondent for the Lake County News Herald, where he contributed until 2011, primarily covering high school football and wrestling. In 1999, Hare began writing for IrishIllustrated.com, a member of the Scout.com network of high school and college sports web sites. He focuses on covering Notre Dame football recruiting. OhioVarsity.com was created in 2004 and was a member of the Rivals.com network until 2012. The site's original purpose was to cover Ohio high school football and recruiting news but since has grown to cover all sports and to provide sports information services to high school athletic programs and individual teams. Hare attended Willoughby South High School through the middle of his senior year, then graduated from Berkshire High School in Burton in 1986. He played football, wrestled and was an all-Geauga county baseball player (1986). He lives in Chardon with his wife Paulette and their children.
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