A furious late-set rally by the visiting Woodland Warriors made for a tense moment for the Flanagan-Cornell girls volleyball team as it opened its season Tuesday against its old rival.

Once the Falcons survived that, though, there weren’t any more tense moments.

Flanagan-Cornell defeated Woodland 25-23, 25-4 at the Nest to improve to 1-0. The Warriors – who also lost Monday at crosstown rival Streator – slip to 0-2 on the young season.

“I think definitely when we started, we were really nervous,” Falcons senior middle Marley Highland said. “But as soon as we figured out, ‘We can do this,’ we were OK. Last year, we had a really big problem with [nerves getting the best of us], but this year, I think it’s going to be really good.

“We got our nerves out. We had them for a few points,

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