The Florence LadyCats went 6-3 to place runner-up at the nine-team Peshtigo Invitational on Tuesday.

Florence swept Mercer 25-8, 25-9 and Marinette 25-11, 25-8 before dropping a 25-19, 25-20 verdict to the host Bulldogs.

The LadyCats responded with a comeback 20-25, 25-16, 15-8 victory over Crivitz to end their day.

For the first time in four seasons, Florence took the court without graduated senior standout Kamdan Johnson and for the first time in two seasons without graduated senior Audrey Franz.

“There are some growing pains of course, but all in all I was happy,” Florence coach Teresa Chrisman said. “We started to get blocked more when playing Peshtigo, more than we had seen all pre-season. So, we just shut down, got in our heads a bit. But I’m also to blame for that, I need to do

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