Volleyball Preview: Elmwood-Murdock Knights vs. Weeping Water Indians
Elmwood-Murdock has been away from home for seven games now, but on Thursday they'll finally make their return. They will host the Weeping Water Indians at 5:00 p.m. The two teams each escaped (but just barely!) with wins against their previous opponents.
Having struggled with six defeats in a row, Elmwood-Murdock finally turned things around against Conestoga on Tuesday. They narrowly escaped with a win as the team sidled past the Cougars 2-1.
Elmwood-Murdock had a slow start but a hot finish: after dropping the first first set, they turned around to win the next three. The final score came out to 22-25, 26-24, 25-23.
Meanwhile, Weeping Water had just enough and edged Brownell Talbot out 3-2 on Tuesday. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Indians.
Weeping Water was actually outscored in aggregate across those five sets (107-99), but they still managed to win. After all that action, the final score was 25-23, 13-25, 21-25, 25-23, 15-11.
Elmwood-Murdock's victory bumped their record up to 4-10. As for Weeping Water, they pushed their record up to 5-5 with that win, which was their third straight on the road.
Elmwood-Murdock was able to grind out a solid victory over Weeping Water in their previous meeting back in August, winning 2-0. Will Elmwood-Murdock repeat their success, or does Weeping Water have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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