MECHANICSBURG – Pine-Richland rallied late to edge the Spring-Ford girls volleyball team in the first set of the PIAA Class 4A final Saturday night.

Lila Olsen, however, was not too worried.

On the same court in the same match last season, the senior has been through the same thing – albeit from the opposite side.

“We won the first set, they came back, sweeped us last three,” said Olson of Spring-Ford’s loss to North Allegheny in the 2024 state final. “So as soon as we lost the first set I was like ‘Guys, maybe this is it, this is what they did to us last year. This is exactly what we’re going to do right back to them.’

“So I never really was let down or nervous that we were going to lose, I knew we had it in us to win so that’s what we did.”

Olsen back up that confidence with a brill

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