For a team that had only two girls play the year before, not too bad you might say.
The 7th/8th grade girls go into the playoffs winners of five straight, and haven't lost a set in their last two games.
They will go head to head against one of the two teams that had previously defeated them this season, St. Cecilia.
In that game, the girls were flat in the first set, but rebounded and dominated the first set until a collapse that saw them blow a double digit lead.
It's unlikely that will happen again.
The girls have been playing their best volleyball, incorporating the bump, set and spike, and most of the girls on the team are able to serve consistently and not give away points, something that is crucial in the playoffs.
Other teams are no slouch and every point that you can get adds up in the end.
You can add this team to the long list of St. Mary's teams that have had pretty much no experience entering a season and being successful.
Of the right girls on the team, only two of them, Isabella and Cynthia, both 7th graders, have had previous playing experience.
Everybody else is a rookie.
After a full season and a slew of scrimmages, the girls should have enough experience, but the playoffs are a different animal - there is no tomorrow.
It took a while for this team to really play together as a team, but they are finally coming together.
Total strangers less than two months ago, they are now one win away from getting to a championship.
GAMETIME: 8 P.M.
LOCATION: ST. CECILIA (18TH AVE AND VICENTE)
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