BOARDMAN — Monday’s season opener vs. Girard was Boardman’s to win – until it wasn’t.

The Spartans reached match point in the fourth set with several points to spare, but Girard, capitalizing on errors and sensing the shifting momentum, rallied for five consecutive points, forced a fifth set and captured its first win of the year by a score of 3-2 (25-21, 7-25, 18-25, 26-24, 15-13).

“We had to go point by point,” said Girard head coach Nicole Luklan, who earned her first win as the Indians’ coach Monday. “We get too rushed, we get too cluttered. We really sometimes just beat ourselves. It’s what happened to us on Saturday with Canfield, but today, we had to chip away point by point, kind of overcome that adversity.”

Girard convincingly won the first set of Monday’s away match after pull

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