NORTH VERNON, Ind. — Stephanie Bloom’s message to her athletes all along has been to just give it their all.
Should the Yorktown Tigers lose a volleyball match, at least in their coach’s eyes they’d be able to walk away knowing they did their best. Should Bloom and her players see their 2020 season end one contest shy of a spot in the IHSAA Class 4A state finals, at least they’d be able to look back on it with the understanding that just wasn’t their day. And for a time Saturday night at Jennings County High School, in a semistate matchup with Providence, Bloom didn’t feel as if her team was playing with that mindset.