Volleyball Preview: Utica Redskins vs. Lakewood Lancers
The Utica Redskins have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the Lakewood Lancers at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday.
On Tuesday, Utica didn't have quite enough to beat Johnstown-Monroe and fell 3-2. The loss continues a trend for the Redskins in their matchups with the Johnnies: they've now lost seven in a row.
Utica might've come up short, but they didn't make it easy on Johnstown-Monroe: every set was decided by two points or less. The match finished with set scores of 25-23, 25-23, 22-25, 23-25, 16-14.
Utica's defeat shouldn't obscure the performances of Callie Baker, who had 16 digs and two aces, and Madison Yates, who had 16 digs. That's the most aces Baker has posted in her last eight matches.
Even though they lost, Utica was lethal from the service line and finished the game with ten aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least seven aces in four consecutive games.
Meanwhile, Lakewood made easy work of Cristo Rey on Monday and carried off a 3-0 win.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Lakewood was: they took every set by at least ten points. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-15, 25-10, 25-9.
Utica's loss dropped their record down to 8-8. As for Lakewood, their victory ended a three-game drought at home and bumped them up to 6-9.
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