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Although the match was well inhand and light appeared at the end of the tunnel, the last 4 points Harvest Christian had to get in order to earn back-to-back sectional titles and return to the Elite Eight seemed to be the toughest points to score all night. "We wanted to finish and every hit we weren't hitting as hard as we could," Lions' junior Sydney Doby said. "Once we got it into our mind like, hey, let's get it done, right here, right now,' we really came together as a team and finished — got it done." And after letting Morgan Park Academy draw within 23-18 in Game 2, finish is just what Harvest did. With a Morgan Park dig by Taylor Malecki going out of bounds and a kill from Ellie Burzlaff that had extra mustard on it, the Lions finally got it done and won their own Class 1A sectional title 25-13, 25-18 in front of a raucous home crowd at the Mitchell Swaback Athletic Center in Elgin Thursday night.