Volleyball Preview: Brown County Hornets vs. Beardstown Tigers
Brown County is 8-2 against Beardstown since October of 2019, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Thursday. The Brown County Hornets will play host again on Thursday to welcome the Beardstown Tigers, where the match is scheduled at 6:00 p.m. Brown County will be strutting in after a victory while Beardstown will be coming in after a defeat.
Last Tuesday, Brown County had just enough and edged West Central co-op [Winchester-Bluffs] out 2-1.
It was an exciting match in which no team won back-to-back sets, but at the end of the day Brown County got the one that really mattered. The match finished with set scores of 29-27, 23-25, 25-17.
Brown County found their leader in underclassman Emma Lerch, who had nine digs and three aces. The dominant performance gave Lerch a new career-high in aces.
Brown County was lethal from the service line and finished the game with ten aces. That's the most aces they've managed all season.
Meanwhile, Beardstown was not able to break out of their rough patch on Tuesday as the team picked up their third straight loss. They fell 2-0 to Rushville-Industry.
The final score came out to 25-21, 25-13.
Brown County pushed their record up to 16-18 with the win, which was their fifth straight at home. As for Beardstown, their defeat dropped their record down to 9-21.
Brown County beat Beardstown 2-0 when the teams last played on October 5th. Does Brown County have another victory up their sleeve, or will Beardstown turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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