One down, one to go? Part II

Championship Saturday is upon is, and the Register has two area teams playing for gold today.
Huron 'did it's part' in joining St. Paul in today's championship volleyball matches, assuring themselves a big, shiny gold or silver trophy.
Trailing 2-1 in the best-of-five vs. Middletown Bishop Fenwick today, the Lady Tigers again found a way to pull out both Game 4 and Game 5 to advance to today's Division III state championship at 3 p.m. vs. Frankfort Adena.
Last night I wrote a blog saying how myself and hundreds of other people figured St. Paul would play Marion Local for the Division IV title today, but also pointed out Marion Local is the CLEAR favorite to win. However, I'm feeling a different vibe on Huron's match with Adena...they've got a shot, folks.
I watched Adena play vs. Smithville earlier in the day, and they are very strong defensively, but to be honest they reminded me a lot of Huron.
Here is the biggest thing I noticed. Smithville lost a 24-22 lead in Game 2, falling 26-24 (see Huron's Game 3 loss today — and then trailing 22-15 in game 3, they rallied to pull within I believe two points before finally falling.
So you can jump out on this team, but Smithville was unable to hold them off. Huron CAN hold them off.
Bishop Fenwick's coach may have summed it up best when he called Huron 'a very vanilla team, like most of Don's (Wood) teams are.'
That was in no way a slam at Huron or their style of play, but it's true. Huron likes to sit back and let the other team win a match for them.
Archbold definitely did it in Game 5 of the regional championship last week, and today vs. Fenwick? They let the Falcons give them THIRTY-TWO points on hitting errors alone.
After today's match, Wood felt this year's team was very similar in the way they played compared to the 1999 team — the first Huron team to advance and win a state title — which is ironically the team Huron brought in for a 10-year reunion back in September.
Funny how things work.
So in closing, I feel like Huron is in a tossup today for a state title while St. Paul, well, frankly they have a TALL order in front of them.
But never count out a team that plays defense like the Lady Flyers.
Championship Saturday...the thrill of victory AND agony of defeat? Or will they both get it done, or both lose?
Either way, they'll both file back of their buses with a big, shiny trophy that says they are one of the top two teams in the state in their divisions.
An early job well done ladies.