Lady Devils grab top seed for own 2A regional
Hall coach Demi Salazar said it was weird because nobody seemed to want to be the No. 1 seed in the Hall Regional.
When ballots were tallied, Salazar’s Lady Devils came out No. 1 and with it, he hopes no kiss of death.
“We got No. 1 because nobody wanted it. Perhaps it is because No. 1s all got beat last year,” Salazar said. “So, I have to figure out what to tell the kids, because we are never No. 1.”
Despite having pressure to win as the No. 1, Salazar hates the fact the first team they will play gets to play a warm-up game before they play Hall.
Chillicothe IVC was the 2, Princeton 3, Eureka 4 and St. Bede 5. Eureka and St. Bede will play the first match of the night on Oct. 30 with the winner to come back against Hall. Princeton will square off against IVC in the second match.
Bureau Valley, which will play host to the local 2A sectional, heads to Mendota for regional play. The host Spikers are the top seed in the four-team field and will face No. 4 Plano on Oct. 30 followed by No. 2 BV and No. 3 Amboy.
Other regional feeders for the Bureau Valley Sectional come from Sherrard and Kewanee. The supersectional then plays out at Princeton’s Prouty Gym.
LaMoille/Ohio will be hosting a 1A regional, bringing in top-seeded Erie. The fifth-seeded Lady Lions will face No. 4 Fulton on Oct. 29.
Putnam County is also hosting a 1A regional with Dwight as the No. 1 seed. PC is the 4 and DePue the 7.
• Volleyball notes: Ne-wark captured its third straight Little Ten Confer-ence Tournament title, defeating Somonauk 25-14, 25-22. It is Lady Norse-man’s seventh LTC title since 2001. Leland/ Earlville beat Hinckley-Big Rock for third and LaMoille/Ohio topped Paw Paw for the consolation championship 25-13, 22-25, 25-11. ... LaSalle-Peru moved to 20-0 for the first time in school history with Thursday’s win at Streator. L-P went 19-0 in 2006.
• Postseason picture: In golf, Princeton’s and Bureau Valley’s boys will head to Aledo Tuesday for a sectional round of golf at Hawthorn Ridge. The local girls and Hall boys competed in sectionals Monday.
The next sport hopping into the postseason picture is girls’ tennis, with Princeton and St. Bede heading to the Ottawa Sectional, beginning at 1 p.m. Friday. Seeding meeting is Wednesday.
Cross county regionals will run Oct. 25 with Hall, Putnam County and St. Bede heading to Seneca and Princeton, Bureau Valley and Amboy/ La-Moille off to Rock Falls. Qualifiers from both sites will advance to the Aurora Christian Sectional on Nov. 1.
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