Volleyball Preview: Forest Park Bruins vs. Freedom Eagles
Forest Park has gone 10-0 against Freedom recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Thursday. The Forest Park Bruins will be playing at home against the Freedom Eagles at 7:00 p.m. The timing is sure in Forest Park's favor as the squad sits on 11 straight wins at home (dating back to last season) while Freedom has been banged up by nine consecutive losses on the road also dating back to last season.
Last Tuesday, everything went Forest Park's way against Gar-Field as Forest Park made off with a 3-0 victory.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Forest Park was: they took every set by at least 11 points. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-14, 25-11, 25-4.
Alysia Diaz went supernova for Forest Park, getting nine aces and seven digs. The dominant performance gave Diaz a new career-high in aces. The team also got some help courtesy of Destini Pickett, who hit 86.7% for 13 killsseven aces and six digs.
She wasn't the only good server: Forest Park was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 22 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least six aces in 11 consecutive contests.
Meanwhile, Freedom lost 3-0 to Woodbridge on Tuesday.
The match finished with set scores of 25-11, 25-2, 25-8.
Forest Park has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won seven of their last eight matchups, which provided a massive bump to their 12-6 record this season. As for Freedom, their loss dropped their record down to 0-6.
Everything went Forest Park's way against Freedom in their previous meeting back in September, as Forest Park made off with a 3-0 win. Does Forest Park have another victory up their sleeve, or will Freedom turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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