Volleyball Game Preview: West Shores Wildcats vs. San Pasqual Academy Dragons

By Team Reports Oct 11, 2024, 1:29am

Volleyball Preview: West Shores Wildcats vs. San Pasqual Academy Dragons

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West Shores is 3-0 against San Pasqual Academy since September of 2022, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Friday. The West Shores Wildcats will stay at home for another game and welcome the San Pasqual Academy Dragons at 4:00 p.m. West Shores will be strutting in after a win while San Pasqual Academy will be coming in after a loss.

Last Wednesday, West Shores got the win against Warner by a conclusive 3-0. For those keeping track at home, that's the biggest victory West Shores has posted against Warner since October 21, 2021.

West Shores' got stronger as the match went on, holding Warner to fewer and fewer points set over set. The final score came out to 25-20, 25-14, 25-9.

Jacqueline Sarabia had a dynamite game for West Shores, getting eight kills and eight aces. The dominant performance gave Sarabia a new career-high in aces. The team also got some help courtesy of Nicole Navarro, who had seven aces and a kill.

She wasn't the only good server: West Shores was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 28 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least 14 aces in three consecutive matches.

Meanwhile, San Pasqual Academy was not able to break out of their rough patch on Wednesday as the team picked up their fifth straight defeat. They came up short against Calexico Mission, falling 3-0.

While San Pasqual Academy was kept off the board, it wasn't for a lack of trying: they cut into Calexico Mission's winning margin in every set. The match finished with set scores of 25-6, 25-14, 25-18.

West Shores has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won six of their last seven contests, which provided a nice bump to their 8-7 record this season. As for San Pasqual Academy, their loss dropped their record down to 0-5.

Everything went West Shores' way against San Pasqual Academy in their previous meeting back in September, as West Shores made off with a 3-0 win. Does West Shores have another victory up their sleeve, or will San Pasqual Academy turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.

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