Taft women volleyball's Prior Borick and Julia Bazylevych are the genuine offer

Julia Bazylevych and Prior Borick will confess, with a laugh, that there are occasions they want to get rid of each and every other.

Confident, the Taft women volleyball seniors, two of the very best players in the City Section, have been pals because center school. But they are also extremely aggressive. All through the spring, they paired up to engage in seashore volleyball for Taft and experienced their good share of bickerings.

There’s a approach to the insanity. The two walked away winners of the to start with-ever Town Section seashore pairs championship, and aren’t keeping back in a senior season with huge aspirations for a loaded Taft group.

“Even tonight, it seems like we’re arguing,” Borick said just after Saturday’s City Champions showcase, “but we’re just attempting to press via it.”

They pushed as a result of with minimal resistance at that Saturday match, Taft internet hosting a pool of former City Portion champions throughout various divisions. Led by Bazylevych’s golden arm and Borick’s continuous arms, the Torreadors conquer previous season’s Open up Division champs Venice 2- (25-18, 25-14) in the finals to cap off an undefeated event.

Bazylevych explained around the summer months she was shooting for Metropolis Player of the Yr, and it’s tricky to argue with her candidacy immediately after one glimpse at the 6-foot-1 outside hitter’s homing-missile spikes. Borick, meanwhile, is everywhere and everywhere you go at all periods — diving on the floor for a dig, skying for a kill, providing a picturesque established or dropping in an ace.

Positive, the two may well appear at each and every other’s throats in some cases. That is just simply because they are striving to strangle their opponents.

“The two children who gained the beach front championship,” San Pedro coach Sean Zuvich stated Saturday, “are killers.”

Stressed in paradise

The contact was often in the back again of Darrin Phillips’ intellect, threatening to mail him hightailing out of the gymnasium to catch the upcoming flight home.

Stefanie Wigfall, Sierra Canyon’s head mentor, was pregnant with her 2nd baby and inching closer to her thanks date. So in advance of the time-opening Ann Kang event in Hawaii on Aug. 11-14, she designed the determination with Phillips — her spouse and assistant mentor — that he’d fly there to coach and she’d continue to be behind.

But the day he touched down on the island, Wigfall went into fake labor. Philips nearly turned proper again all over. He stayed, tough as it was, and Wigfall spent her times observing the tournament’s livestream on Facebook and YouTube.

“I’m just patiently waiting around — not that patiently, but just hoping he gets residence in advance of matters get likely on this aspect,” Wigfall claimed Aug. 13.

On Thursday night, the two welcomed a new Trailblazer to the loved ones — Cole Joseph Phillips. Sierra Canyon, meanwhile, defeat Santa Margarita on Wednesday to make improvements to to 9-1.

Stars of the 7 days

• Layli Ostovar, a freshman participating in in her first-ever substantial university activity for Mater Dei, tallied five kills and a few blocks Thursday from a challenging opponent in Mira Costa.
  
• The aforementioned Madyson Smith racked up 10 kills devoid of a one mistake in Aliso Niguel’s season-opening earn towards rival Foothill on Tuesday.
  
• Chatsworth senior Geraldine Martinez, the City Part Player of the 12 months her freshman season, had 15 kills in a Thursday gain about San Pedro.