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Warriors rally to reach region final
RIDGELY — Easton High’s volleyball team had lost a marathon-like first set and was staring at a 10-0 deficit in the second. “The whole time I was thinking, ‘this could be my last game,’” Warrior setter Heaven Murray said. “‘We got to play harder than we ever could before.’” Whether this was the hardest Easton played all season may be a matter of opinion, but the the third-seeded Warriors played hard enough Friday night to pull out a 26-28, 26-24, 25-17, 25-18 victory over No. 2 seed North Caroline in a Class 2A East Region II semifinal. The Warriors (13-4), who have won eight of nine, including their last six, advance to Wednesday’s region final at unbeaten top seed Kent Island (17-0) at 5 p.m. The two-time defending region champion Bucs defeated Queen Anne’s, 25-16, 25-19, 25-12 in Friday’s other semifinal. “It was incredible,” Murray said of Easton rallying from being down 10-0 in the second set. “Whenever Cam (Webb) went on that serving run I was like, ‘Yes, this is the momentum we need to actual shift and change the game.’” North Caroline (11-4), which split with Easton during the regular season, outlasted the Warriors in the opening set,
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Perryville advances to state semifinals
Perryville earned its first trip to the MPSSAA state semifinals since 2023 with a 7-1 victory over No. 1 seed Snow Hill in the Class 1A state quarterfinals Saturday. The No. 8 seeded Panthers will face No. 5 seed Liberty in the state semifinals on Saturday, Nov. 14, at 7:30 p.m. at Laurel High School. Perryville's Sadie Tome opened the scoring early Saturday with a goal in the opening minutes that gave the Panthers a 1-0 lead. After Snow Hill scored an equalizer off a corner kick five minutes later, Perryville responded with three goals to close out the first half from Scarlett White, Tome and Carsyn Hulbert to take a 4-1 lead into the break. Perryville added three more goals in the second half, with two coming from Ashlyn Anderson and one from Tome to secure a hat trick. Anderson and Tome each finished with two assists.