Volleyball Preview: Mahopac Indians vs. Rye Garnets
The Mahopac Indians will take on the Rye Garnets at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
On Tuesday, Mahopac got the win against Poughkeepsie by a conclusive 3-0. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Indians.
Not only was the match a shutout, it was a big one: Mahopac took every set by at least 12 points. The match finished with set scores of 25-10, 25-13, 25-13.
Bella DeChico was her usual excellent self, getting ten aces, five digs, and three kills. The dominant performance gave her a new career-high in aces. The team also got some help courtesy of Andriana DiVincenzo, who had four aces and three kills.
She wasn't the only good server: Mahopac was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 27 aces. That's the most aces they've managed all season.
Meanwhile, everything went Rye's way against Harrison two weeks ago as Rye made off with a 3-0 win.
Rye never let Harrison on the board, but things got pretty close in the third set. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-20, 25-19, 25-22.
Mahopac is on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 10-7 record this season. As for Rye, their victory bumped their record up to 3-1.
Mahopac came out on top in a nail-biter against Rye when the teams last played back in September of 2023, sneaking past 3-2. Will Mahopac repeat their success, or does Rye have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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