Torson sparks Saints by Warriors
As she has done to so many teams in her stellar four-year high school career, Xavier’s Kayla Torson broke the will of the Washington Warriors Tuesday night with a flurry of late-game kills.
Not once, but twice, the 5-foot-11 senior jumping jack single-handedly brought the Saints back from 20-15 deficits and then finished off with the final points in a straight-set 25-22 25-19 25-23 victory at Xavier.
“When you’re down, that’s not the time to let up,” said Torson, an all-stater who will take her talents next year to the University of Nebraska-Omaha.
“That’s the time to turn it up and go after it. When I’m out there, I want to win.”
And she all but willed her team to a win on their home court against a scrappy Washington outfit that’s getting better game by game.
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