Tawa’s Club Volleyball Dots: Triple Crown hits a home run

This is “Dots,” VolleyballMag.com’s weekly look at 10 things in club volleyball, past or present, that interest me and hopefully will interest you. Look for Dots every Tuesday through Junior Nationals this summer. • The 10th Triple Crown NIT in Kansas City finished on Monday exactly as it should have, with volleyball as the star. […]

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This is “Dots,” VolleyballMag.com’s weekly look at 10 things in club volleyball, past or present, that interest me and hopefully will interest you. Look for Dots every Tuesday through Junior Nationals this summer.

• The 10th Triple Crown NIT in Kansas City finished on Monday exactly as it should have, with volleyball as the star.

For a tournament that bills itself as “Where the elite come to compete,” the NIT absolutely delivered, with three days of scintillating volleyball featuring 448 of the absolute best club teams nationally in the 15-18 age groups. [There were 12s, 13s and 14s teams also, but at VolleyballMag.com we do not cover teams until they reach high school age.]

The four Elite Bracket championship matches were as good as the play leading up to it, which isn’t often the case, as tired legs, frayed emotions and thoughts of a flight home (and school) tend to intercede to impact the product on the court.

This year’s NIT was the exception, as all eight finalists battled with everything they had.

When all was said and done, Coast 18-1, from California, won the 18s division, rallying from down five in Game 2 to defeat vaunted TAV 18 Black, 17-15 in the third.

Milwaukee Sting 17 Gold got stomped in Game 1 of the Elite 17s final before rallying to defeated 1st Alliance 17 Gold, 16-14 in the third.

Legacy 16-1 Adidas won an overtime first set, but needed to rally after getting worked in the second to start fast in the third and hold on over Mintonette m.61 for the Elite 16s title.

TAV 15 Black fought off three set points in the second to win, 26-24, to sweep Club V 15 Ren Kalee in the Elite 15s championship match.

• The Elite 18s final promised to pit the terrific ball control of Coast, the beachy keen San Diego squad; and the sheer power of Dallas’ TAV, which boasts four of the top front court players in the country in MB Favor Anyanwu and pins Macaria Spears, Suli Davis and Jaidyn Livings.

Both control and power had their moments in the match,

Coast used a 5-0 run, punctuated by successive Tianna Owens’ kills; to go up, 9-6, in the first set. Coast maintained a slim advantage through most of the set, as Owens and OH Jaidyn Jager found ways to score and libero Ximena Cordero worked hard to keep TAV’s vaunted attack from first-ball kills.

Coast even survived a mid-set TV interview from head coach Ozhan Bahrambeygui, who admitted that he had a face for radio!

Down 21-19, TAV rallied to score four of the next five points, including kills from Davis and Livings, to go in front by one. Coast came back with two straight, as setter Italia Bernal, a standout Mexican player; fed Owens and Jager for kills.

TAV had one last rally in it, and it proved definitive in the set. Davis, one of three tremendous junior hitters in the match (along with Spears and Jager), knotted the score at 24-24 with a kill. The Dallas squad closed out the set with two more points, finishing with an ace from outstanding libero Gillian Pitts.

TAV controlled the second set from the start and appeared to run away and sweep after a kill and block from Spears gave the Texans a 17-11 lead. Owens said that her team wasn’t ready to panic.

“The score doesn’t matter at that point,” she explained. “We’re staying intense and fighting for the next ball. We were just fighting with our all and had nothing to lose.”

Coast rallied with help from an unexpected source: senior OH Saren Rogers.

Rogers had played sparingly over the course of the last two days, despite being a freakish athlete. But with Coast foundering, Bahrambeygui turned to her despite her lack of big-match experience and she delivered in a HUGE way. She had five kills from the midway point of the set to the end and, along with the tandem blocking of Bernal and Mackenzie Parsons, helped Coast close on a 9-2 run to send the match to a third set.

Coast stormed to a 6-1 lead in the third, thanks to a Hayley Ogden block and two kills from Jager, who just finds ways to score; but Anyanwu started to assert herself in the middle for TAV. The USC-bound National Team middle had a kill and two blocks to help her pull within two mid-way through the sprint to 25 points.

Coast stayed in front with help from effective Jager offense and an outrageous Owens dig. The Californians were on the verge of closing out the match after a Madison Triplett ace made it 13-10, but TAV rallied to save three match point behind Pitts’ defense and a game-tying block from Anyanwu.

Coast had two more chances to win in extra points. Davis rebuffed the first with a nice tip. TAV could not stop the second chance, however, as Rogers, the unlikely hero, hammered a ball into the seam for the championship clincher.

• The story of the Elite 17s final was told in a riveting third set. The teams exchanged blowout wins over the first two, with Chicago’s 1st Alliance capturing the first and Sting, from Milwaukee, of course, meting out its own payback in the second. The blowouts were particularly helpful to this writer, because it gave him a chance to spend extended time covering the Elite 15s final, which was being played concurrently.

Game 3 started as Sting, which had momentum after a 25-12 domination in the second; blasted to a 7-2 lead. The catalyst was hard-working middle Karli Molnau, who had back-to-back assisted blocks to help Sting build its five-point advantage.

Kills from Sydney Buchanan and Abby Vander Wal and a remarkable Ava Young dig drew 1st Alliance to within two. Molnau scored on the quick attack from Madison Marx to make the lead three, but after a Gabriele Stasys kill for 1st Alliance, no team led by more than two the rest of the way.

Stasys’ ace serve knotted the score at 8-8 and Hannah Kenny’s ace put the Windy City club on top, 10-9. Hard-hitting Gabrielle Pitcel scored to equalize for Sting, only to see Kenny set up Horner and Vander Wal for kills that gave 1st Alliance a late 12-10 lead.

Milwaukee Sting, which was 1-2 on Day 1 before rallying, had another rally in it. Amy Wagner’s squad scored three straight to go ahead by a point. A dig from Emma Koceja and Pitcel block were essential to the cause.

Vander Wal, one of the best juniors in the world (and a member of the USA Volleyball U19 team), tied the score with a precise cut shot from the pipe to the sideline – something few in the gym would have attempted or could have pulled off. It could not be stopped and the score was tied again, 13-13.

A dig from Olivia Durst and Pitcel’s scoring tip gave Sting match point at 14-13.

Vander Wal sent the game to extras with yet another kill. That set the stage for Madison Quest. Quest struggled in the first set, but picked it up over the last two after a pep talk from Wagner.

The junior OH, who had been nearly unstoppable in Sting’s revenge win over Arizona Storm Elite 17 Thunder in the quarterfinal and the subsequent sweep of Legacy 17-1 Adidas, hammered home the final two kills to complete Sting’s remarkable run to the title.

Wagner attributed the slow start to her team being “a ball of nerves.”

“We throttled ourselves, but we settled in, started passing and played our game,” Wagner explained. “I think they just needed to relax a bit and we served tough. We got them out of system which allows our great defenders to get balls up and run fast.”

• The Elite 16s final matchup between Mintonette and Legacy was bound to be close. The teams had split two earlier matches this season. And, at the NIT on Day 1, m.61 lost to Dallas Skyline 16 Royal, a team Legacy edged later on Saturday. And Legacy lost to WAVE 16-Scott, a team Mintonette defeated later on Saturday.

The difference in this match might have been a nail biting first set. No more than three points separated the two teams the entire time.

For Mintonette, from Columbus, Ohio, OH Layla Hoying, MB Alia Schoonover and libero Emma Cugino were catalysts. For Legacy, from the Metro Detroit area, standouts included libero Meredith Martin, setter Eva Long, OH Gabi DiVita and MB Ella Andrews.

With Legacy down by two following a Schoonover kill for m.61, the Michiganders rattled off four straight, capped by a Jordyn Kennedy ace; to take its own two-point advantage. Legacy kept its two-point lead until a kill from Hoying and block from Kaela Jenkins equalized matters at 23-all.

Mintonette, whose last lead of the set was 19-18, staved off one set point, but not the second, Long gave Legacy a second opportunity after an amazing dig and cashed in on a Mintonette hitting error to win, 26-24.

Mintonette started quickly in Game 2 and, led by Hoying, never let up. The Ohio squad won easily and send the match to a third set.

Watching the second set unfold, Legacy coach Ricky Cottrill had a message for his team before Game 3.

“We asked them, ‘Leaving Triple Crown on the last set you play here, how do you want to finish?’” Cottrill recounted. “’Do you want to feel like you left everything out there?’ The mindset they had was they were going to give it their all.”

Legacy yielded the first point of the final set, but got the serve after a service error. Long went behind the line and served Legacy until an 8-1 lead. The team got blocks from Gina Fedrigo and Kayla Nwabueze, predictably brilliant Martin defense and kills from DiVita and Nwabueze during the run.

The Legacy lead grew to as much as 10, 14-4, as Aubree Deshetsky contributed two kills and the team finished off the 15-7 win with more brilliant defense, courtesy of Martin and Deshetsky.

“They got a couple of nice blocks and a couple of nice things happened,” Cottrill said. “It was a great win.”

“This is huge because it’s a team that sometimes struggles with their confidence,” the coach continued. “A win like this will help. To me this is like winning JOs. This is one of the top tournaments in the country. This is good for them.”

• TAV 15 Black was the heavy favorite in the Elite 15s championship match, and for good reason. Jason Nicholson’s team had just avenged its only tournament loss with a tough semifinal win over AZ Storm Elite 15 Thunder, they’d won the Tour of Texas Houston stop the weekend before and were the reigning age group national champions having won 14 Open at Junior Nationals last summer.
No team was expected to win more.

On the opposite side of the net, Club V was no slouch. The Utah squad was undefeated for the tournament, finished fifth in 14 Open at Junior Nationals a year ago and had been impressive in defeating Munciana Blue and OT 15 T Randy to make it to the finals. Club V boasted wonderful players like outsides Ava Burgess and Sito Tausinga, setter Zamari Christensen, libero Jennifer Truong and MB Alisi Tapa’atoutai, the team’s emotional leader.

The first set was a runaway for Texas Advantage. Undersized OH Gentry Barker provided the power on the left and TAV finished on a 15-5 run, capped by a Nyla Livings block, to put V away, 25-13.

Game 2 was a very different story. With Slaney balling out in the back row, Berkleigh Minnick playing big at the net and both Tausinga and Burgess getting their kills, Club V built a 9-6 lead and kept it, for the most part, throughout the set. Barker and Lexi Martin were potent on the left for the reigning champs and helped TAV stay close, but the Utahans led 23-19 late.

Nyla Livings, one of four sisters and on the same TAV team as sister Naomi Livings, showed off her immense potential with a block and kill for Texas Advantage, to halve the deficit, but a Tapa’atoutai kill off of a sweet Christensen 31 set gave V three set points and threatened to send this final, like all the others, to a third and final set.

TAV had other ideas. A hitting error and Martin tip drew Nicholson’s squad to within one. Nyla Livings then tied things up with an ace serve. Barker struck from the back row to put TAV within one of a championship and a V hitting error sealed the furious 5-0 finish for the win.

Nicholson was asked afterwards what he learned about this team on championship Monday.

“The last two matches we saw a resilient team,” he observed. “We fought through some tough times. With the talent we have if they can get that aspect of the game we’ll be tough to play against down the stretch.”

• When Monday dawned, the teams that would eventually be champions were thinking about completing the task, but so, too, were seven other teams in each division.

For the 16s and 18s, the first step started bright and early at 7:30 a.m.

Legacy, with Andrews dominating, handled 1st Alliance 16 Gold with relative ease in one quarterfinal.

Hoying aided Mintonette’s advance over Sara Bowcutt and AZ Storm Elite 16 Thunder.

TAV 16 Black, getting strong work from S/RS Danielle Whitmire and MB Kinsley Young, took out last year’s darlings, SCVC 16 Roxy, which was playing down key middle Taylor Boice (hand).

Finally, Sports Performance 16 Elite pulled off a surprise of sorts by sweeping defending Triple Crown and 15 Open national champion Dallas Skyline 16 Royal. Setter Ellie Stiernagle directed a fast and effective offense for SPVB, which has four front line players touching 10-0 or above. Abigail Knight and Brooklynne Brass were tall smackers who particularly stood out.

DiVita was on her game for Legacy in its semifinal sweep of Sports Performance. The other semifinal, pitting Mintonette and TAV was a tooth and nail affair that not only dragged into a third set; it went beyond the 15 points before a massive block from Lyla Stewart and Hoying tool shot broke a 14-all tie to give Mintonette the win. Young and Layla Austin were very effective in the loss for TAV.

In the 18s division, Coast, with Jager and Owens scoring and pinpoint ball control, was too tough for 1st Alliance 18 Gold in one 7:30 a.m. quarterfinal.

TAV won the battle of Dallas over Madfrog 18s National Green, with Pitts coming up big in the back row time and again.

Club V 18 Ren Reed held off KC Power 18-1, 15-13 in the third, thanks to a final kill from Taylor Harvey and the vaunted junior middle’s disruptive wingspan. Powerful Alea Goolsby impressed in the loss for Power.

The most entertaining of the 7:30 matches, in my opinion, was the clash between Triangle 18 Black and Tri-State Elite 18 Blue. Perhaps both teams expected to be in the final eight, but their presence was a surprise to many, especially after Triangle lost one of its top hitters, Nebraska commit  Ryan Hunter, to a knee injury on Day 1.

Triangle played with great effort and intensity, led by unstoppable OH Laynie Smith, sparkplug OH Asia Thigpen (a bomber who will be a libero at Kentucky), stalwart middle Ashlynn Philpott and heady setter Avery Scoggins.

Tri-State was all about the grit of setter Maria Drapp, with some Faith Young, Sophia Adkins and Addy Brus thrown in for good measure. In the end, Tri-State’s roster of mid-major signees held off Triangle, 15-13 in the third, prevailing on a Brus kill that sent the Cincinnati-area squad to the semifinals.

Coast made the finals by taking out Tri-State. The San Diego squad was terrific passing serve led by Cordero and had Bernal on her game dishing the ball.

TAV needed three to oust Club V. Anyanwu was really good, offensively and defensively, when it mattered most.

The 15s and 17s quarterfinals got started at 8:30 a.m.

TAV, led by Nyla Livings and Brynn Stephens, ousted A5 15 Kelly and its all-world setter Marissa Jones in one 15s quarterfinal.

Club V overcame Munciana 15 Blue and its impressive middle, Carsyn Comer.

Storm, with MB Kendall Omoruyi and Tessa Larkin dominating, was too much for Legacy, which got nice work from Marlie Smith, Callie LeFevre and Brooklyn Rummler.

Finally, OT 15 T Randy and KC Power 15-1 played a barnburner that went deep into a third set. Sophia Puleo is OT’s go-to on the outside and she goed, too, scoring several times midway through Game 3 to give the Tampa team an 11-9 lead over the hometown squad. Tori Massengill and Bo Bronson helped KC Power sent the match to extra points and Madeline Etler’s hustle in crunch time was noticeable. OT prevailed, however, 17-15, when Puleo put away an overpassed serve with authority for the clincher.

TAV got its revenge on Storm in the semifinals. Barker was sooo good in that third set and Martin had the game winner.

Club V stormed to a 4-0 lead in Game 3 with Christensen serving rockets, but led by only 12-11 before scoring the final three points to defeat OT. The final point scored when sensational defense from Christensen and Truong set the stage for Estelle Slaney’s game-winning kill. Libero Ella Horvick was great in the loss for OT.

In the 17s, Sting, with Quest dominating, stunned defending age group national champion Storm in quarterfinal play.

Madfrog 17s National Green, led by Sara Quigley and Nenu Kpea, got by Izzy Busignani and Michigan Elite 17 Mizuno.

Legacy won the battle of the setters with Tribe 17 Elite Cardinal, as setter Campbell Flynn, with help from OH Molly Reck, got by the South Florida team, led by setter Charlotte Glass and exceptional libero Zoey Matias.

The final quarterfinal, between 1st Alliance and KiVA 17 Red, may have been the match of the morning. KiVA, playing without its tall middle Addison Makun, had managed to take the second set from 1st Alliance and was more than holding its own in Game 3 thanks to OH Addison Powell, who added a celebratory 360 pirouette to every one of her many kills.

KiVA led 9-4 in the final set after a double block from Bridget Egan and Bailey Blair, but 1st Alliance figured out a way back from desperation by scoring six of the final eight points to steal the 15-13 win. Horner had the final kill from the right side, but Danielle Matos’ team got major contributions up front from LaDonna Trantham, Stasys, Vander Wal and Caroline Smith and libero Aniya Warren was EVERYWHERE on defense.

Sting and 1st Alliance swept close semifinal sets to advance to the finals. Sting won the serve, pass and block game to get by Legacy. These semifinals were played at the same time as the 16s final, over in the overcrowded section of the convention center, making coverage of those matches nearly impossible.

• Now that we’ve recapped the championship matches and the final day road to get to the finals, let’s go back to the NIT’s first day. I need to get a little personal, as I was attending my first BIG tournament in a year, which is unusual since for more than two decades witnessing and writing about major club volleyball events dominated my life.

Here’s what I wrote Saturday night (before the bad barbeque kicked in):

Kansas City surprised me Saturday morning with single digits, something I’ve not been a fan of since that SUV pulled out right in front of me last month. Not cool dude!

My hotel being a mile from the convention center, up hill, making the walk was out, as was waiting in the freezing cold for the Streetcar (as I had a desire not to freeze to death).

After a three-minute Uber ride, I walked into the convention center excited, not just for the volleyball, but because of the old friends I was about to see for the first time since last year. Many have been with me on this journey since I first started 25 years ago. Kara, LJ, Ozhan, Kelly, Craig, anyone named Shondell …

Reconnecting is a lot about what Triple Crown is for us lifers. It’s the first chance every year to hug, ask about families and reminisce about days long gone.

This year, more than any previously, I found myself waxing nostalgic. When I first began covering club, two years before conceiving the idea of starting PrepVolleyball.com (with Kevin Laseau (now Associate Head Coach at Yale)), most clubs were of the mom and pop variety, some only a team or two. Even the larger clubs operated largely out of area high schools.

There were eight national qualifiers. Admission was FREE. Stay to Play was nonexistent. The only divisions were Open and Club. Results were tacked to the convention center wall and updated with Sharpies.

If you touched 10-0, you were a superstar, coveted by all major colleges provided you could play even a little.

And I was the ONLY media in the gym.

This Saturday at TC, which is in its 10th year; there was so much media! Not just those writing long form, for which I became infamous; but also for the newbies using social media for bite-sized interviews, pithy observations or a boffo highlight or two.

Honestly, I felt like a relic. Evolve or die I always say. I found myself questioning whether I was capable of adapting to the changing times. And, at my age (let’s just say that “6” is the first digit), whether I wanted to.

By the time the day was done, my back was sore and my legs were aching. It might be time to pass the torch. It might be time to for the next generation to speak for the sport, as I have since 2000.

• Now, I didn’t spend my entire Saturday reflecting back on my career in volleyball journalism. When the volleyball is as good as it was this past weekend, it kind of hits you over the head.

Here’s a sampling of what I saw, mostly from the Power Pools, where you remained in contention regardless of how you fared:

OH Mia Gold of Tribe 16 Elite Cardinal is really good. So, too, is Academy 18 Rage OH Lauren Harden, and I really like the flow.

Mizuno Long Beach 18 Rockstar OH Isabel Clark I is REALLY physical, but I already knew that covering her high school career for Mater Dei in California. She helped the Monarchs win a natty this fall.

NPJ 18 Forefront middle Chloe Leluge is good and the kind of free-spirited player who is just fun to watch.

City 18 Gold senior RS Kennedy Osunsanmi stands 6-3 and oozes athleticism. She recently de-committed from UCLA and was playing like a kid who should have 10 offers from major programs today. Impressive!

Coach Scott Blackmon of Milwaukee Sting 18 Gold bragged about how improved his middle, Olivia Wyma, was. As if on cue, every time I walked up to Sting’s court, Wyma is getting dirty with a big block or making herself available for a transition swing.

Tate Drageset was good in all phases for Actyve 18 Black. I hope she finds a Division I home and is accepted for the high-level player she is.

OH Audrey Flanagan was doing her thing, as always, for SCVC 16 Roxy, but kudos to Mia Miller, a right side playing the role of undersized middle out of necessity and doing it well.

Gilad Doron, former head coach at Dartmouth, is the Director of Volleyball at IMG Academy, which has its own 18s club team. Hazel Alevok is tall and moved well. She could be an asset for UCLA. IMG also had another tall, impressive lefty on the right side, but a lack of roster information prevents me from identifying her.

The 16s match between Dallas Skyline 16 Royal, the Elite 15s Triple Crown winner and 15 Open Junior National Champion, and Legacy, was sure fun to watch. It went three sets, with Legacy taking the lead for good, 4-3, on an Andrews kill. DiVita had two kills and an ace, Deshetsky added two kills and Andrews had three more, including the game winner.

The win foretold how well Legacy would do in the tournament.

DiVita was asked afterwards whether the Power Pool win was meaningful.

“It’s huge,” said DiVita. “I think it means a lot to everybody. They’re a great team.”

On the 15s courts, I watched Storm beat eventual champion TAV despite TAV’s libero, Shafer, playing lights out. Storm has two formidable middles in Omoruyi and Caitlin James, but the 6-4 Omoruyi was next level. Maybe even next, next level. I left the gym Saturday thinking I might have seen future Olympians for the first time today. Omoruyi isn’t just tall; she’s a great athlete with unreal movement skills for someone so young and so tall. I was wowed!

The other 15s player with stunning ability is A5 setter Jones. “MJ” stands 6-1 and is a long, sleek athlete who can do everything. She owns the setting position even at a young age and could be the future face of USA Volleyball, that’s how much she impressed me!

• My goal for Sunday, when elimination play began for the top 32 in each division, was to see whether I could identify ANY team that I could say FOR SURE would be in an Elite Division championship match on Monday.

I could not.

There simply were too many high-level teams at Triple Crown to be confident that any team would run the gauntlet.

Munciana 18 Samurai sure looked good and Charlotte Vinson was dominating, but the perennial favorites got knocked out of the chase by Club V.

Miami Hype is a club that plays hard and well consistently but always seems under the radar. The 18 Emilio team finished in the same spot as Munciana. RS Sarah Schnell impressed while I watched.

I continue to love FaR Out 18 Black libero Carley Piercefield and Nicole Cornell looked good setting Dallas Skyline 18 Royal. Sophia Wolfson is a big time middle for San Gabriel Elite 18 RoShamBo even though she plays small school HS ball at Buckley. Tstreet seems to have hit a bit of a lull nationally, but Tstreet 18 Chandler has a banger in Chloe Pravednikov.

Vision 16 Gold standout hitter Makenna Gold was lost on Day 2 to a sprained ankle but Teagan Cooling kept that team headed in the right direction. Boiler Juniors 16 Elite Gold has a Shondell, Lexi Shondell, running the show at setter, but the player to watch on this team is freshman RS Caroline Ward. She stands 6-1, is smoother than smooth and a future big time recruit.

Rockwood Thunder 18 Elite was having success despite being down two middles.

I’m now going to make a bold prediction: the 16 Open USAV Junior National Champion will be Skyline Juniors. But it won’t be Dallas Skyline 16 Royal, Instead it will either be Austin Skyline 16 Royal or Houston Skyline 16 Royal, And neither team made it to the final eight!!!

Austin Skyline was so tall and so fun to watch last year, with Riley Malloy, Sydney Lund, Christa Wilburn and the like. This year, ASkyline has added perhaps the best pure attacker in the country in Henley Anderson and will get harder and harder to beat as the season wears on. Dallas Skyline knocked them out, 26-24, 25-23, in an amazing match that ended on Simone Heard. (I also love smaller, athletic Dallas Skyline setter Madison Victoriano – so gutsy).

Academy Volleyball Cleveland 17 Red has a lefty setter, Belle Groome, who is very intense and the kind of competitor every team needs. University of San Diego got a good one there! Anna Blamires is a cracking lefty for Colorado Juniors 17Kevin.

I also really like Houston Skyline. Halle Thompson, Jayden Robinson, Jenna Thedford…so fun to watch. This team will definitely be in the mix, even though Milly McGee and SCVC eliminated them, 15-12 in the third, on Sunday.

• Let’s finish our coverage of Triple Crown with a couple of light notes.

I asked TAV 18 Black RS Jaidyn Livings who her favorite sisters was. It was intended as a joke, since she has two, twins Nyla and Naomi Livings on the 15 Black team. She said her favorite was actually her 13-year-old sister, Nia, who plays on 13 Black. She’s like a twin to me, she said.

***

Three times on championship Monday, Legacy 16-1 Adidas DS Kyla Ostrander kept hard-driven balls in play with shoulder digs. Usually, attacks that don’t hit hands carom straight down or out of bounds, but not when Ostrander is digging right back.

“I read well on the right side and get those digs,” she said. “I just step into the hole and pray.”

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