Comeback kids Joliet West earn first trip to state with 3-set win over Lockport

If there’s one thing the Joliet West girls volleyball team has proven this postseason, it’s that it doesn’t matter how you begin, only how you finish.The Tigers will be finishing their historical season on the floor of CEFCU Arena in the IHSA Class 4A State Finals.Four days after a dramatic, come-from-behind sectional championship win over Belleville East, Joliet West did it again Monday, rallying after a flat performance in the opening set of the Class 4A Rich Township Supersectional to defeat Lockport 16-25, 25-16, 25-22 and earn the program’s first-ever trip to the IHSA State Finals.“I’m so happy right now,” Joliet West junior outside/right side Cassidee Cartwright said. “I just made history with my best friends, and the fighting that we had to do tonight, I wouldn’t want it any other way. [Lockport] really made us earn going to state.”“I don’t even know what to think right now,” Joliet West coach Chris Lincoln said. “I’m so proud of them. That first set, they could have easily gott