Grant Park has 20-match win streak snapped with loss in sectional championship

A little less than two months ago, the Grant Park girls volleyball team dropped back-to-back matches to fall to 7-8 on the season.Heading into Thursday’s IHSA Class 1A Aurora Christian Sectional championship match against Schaumburg Christian, those two losses were still the most-recent defeats on the Dragons’ schedule.Riding a 20-match winning streak, the Dragons won the first set and were up by eight points early in a second, putting them within striking distance for the third sectional title in program history.But the defending sectional champion Conquerors turned the tide, erasing that deficit with a 12-3 run, finishing off the second set from there and then riding a big run in the third to take a 22-25, 25-22, 25-20 win over the Dragons (27-9).It was a heartbreaking way for one of the best seasons in program history to come to an end, but for senior libero Emily Lencyzcki, it was certainly a season to remember.“What really stands out to me is how much we’ve worked as a team, how m