Providence’s Demi Carbone loves it when she can serve an ace to start off a game.

Similar to the leadoff batter beginning with a home run in baseball, the senior setter/right-side hitter believes that an ace sets a certain tone in volleyball.

“It gives you a boost,” Carbone said. “You just feel better about the game. You are more confident.

“Everything is right place, right time.”

But Tuesday night, things didn’t follow that script right away.

Carbone, who wears No. 8, aced the first serve but crosstown rival Lincoln-Way West won. Claire Murphy , who also wears No. 8, aced the first serve of the second game but Celtics won that one.

So, when Carbone aced the first serve in the third game?

“It was actually funny in the third set, it was the same play hit to the same girl she aced

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