Tuesday’s semifinal match at the Class 4A Joliet West Sectional was a little closer than Joliet West would have liked. That’s because Oswego gave the Tigers everything they wanted before West came away with a 25-20, 23-25, 25-14 win.

Sophomore Lexie Grevengoed had a team-leading 16 kills for the Tigers (35-3), while Lina Govoni had 10 kills. Oswego’s Hannah Herrick led all players with 20 kills.

“I was a little nervous starting the third set,” Grevengoed said, “but we were able to get a lot of energy in that set. We had one of our players [Penny Wagner] get hurt, and we were all fighting for her. It was a total team win. Emma Salerno came in for Penny and got a couple of big kills for us, Lola Berta played great defense, and we were all aggressive.

“It feels really good to be playin

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