Wave loses in sectional action
Greenville ends season on positive note
By George Starks 

GREENVILLE - There was no shame in losing to Urbana for the Greenville volleyball team. In fact, Lady Wave coach Leslie Hoelscher was very pleased with the way her team played. 

Urbana, the top seed in the sectional, eliminated Greenville from the OHSAA sectional tournament but it didn’t come easy. Greenville lost the opening set, 25-12, then bounced back in the second, shocking Urbana, winning 25-22, before losing the third and fourth sets.

Even in losing, Hoelscher feels there were many positives to look at. 

“We weren’t expected to win. No one thought we would even come close,” said the Wave coach in a phone interview Thursday. “We were the seven seed and Urbana is the one seed. We weren’t expected to do anything in this match but come in, lose in three and go home.” 

That scenario never happened. 

“We came out fighting,” Hoelscher said. “We defiantly did not just roll over for them. After we lost the first game, we came back and won the second one and we weren’t blown out in the third and fourth sets. The girls played with the heart I wanted them to fight with all season but we came up just a little bit short.” 

Before the first point was ever served, Hoelscher was more than a little nervous. 

“I was scared the girls would go into this with the deer in the headlights look,” Hoelscher admitted. “They surprised me. They wanted to win. This was what I wanted to see all season.” 

After knotting things up, 1-1, Hoelscher gave her team a huge pep talk.