WOODSTOCK – There is an old sports adage that says if you beat a team twice in the regular season, which Woodstock’s girls volleyball team did against rival Woodstock North, the third meeting in the playoffs will be the toughest.

There was no such issue Monday for the fifth-seeded Blue Streaks, who defeated the fourth-seeded Thunder, 25-21, 25-20, in the first match of the IHSA Class 3A Woodstock Regional.

“We were aware of that mindset, but it’s zero-to-zero and it’s the postseason so you can’t think about what’s happened so far in the season,” Woodstock coach Michelle Stilling said. “I just told them to attack the ball on defense and attack the ball on offense.”