Coach Andy Puck and his Princeton Tigresses were fighting to “Stay Alive in 25” in Tuesday’s Class 2A Riverdale Sectional semifinals

They took that battle cry deep into the third set of leading 18-14 over Peoria Notre Dame.

The Irish rallied to the game at 18 and scored the final three points of the game to take the match with a come from behind 15-25, 26-16, 25-22 to advance to Thursday’s sectional finals against host Riverdale.

What made the loss sting more was it was there for the Tigresses’ taking.

“On the way over I was thinking, ‘Just stay alive in 25,’” Puck said. “We just weren’t able to at the end. We’re better than that. We know that. But you’ve got to give Notre Dame a ton of credit. Just took us out of our comfort zone.”

“We had chances. We just didn’t execute in the rig

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