Volleyball Preview: Bellflower Buccaneers vs. Paramount Pirates
The Bellflower Buccaneers will challenge the Paramount Pirates at 3:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Last Thursday, everything went Bellflower's way against Lynwood as Bellflower made off with a 3-0 win. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Buccaneers.
While Bellflower won a shutout, things came down to the wire in the first set they played. The final score came out to 26-24, 25-14, 25-21.
Bellflower was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 11 aces. That's a new trend for them: they were averaging 0 aces per game earlier this season, but in their last five contests they've averaged 10.
Meanwhile, Paramount entered their tilt with Lynwood on Tuesday with five consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with six. They blew past the Knights 3-0.
While Paramount won a shutout, things came down to the wire in the third set they played. The match finished with set scores of 25-9, 25-11, 25-23.
Bellflower's victory ended an 11-game drought at home dating back to last season and bumped them up to 2-18. As for Paramount, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won six of their last seven games, which provided a massive bump to their 12-7 record this season.
Bellflower came up short against Paramount in their previous matchup on September 12th, falling 3-1. Can Bellflower avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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