Volleyball Preview: Seminole Ridge Hawks vs. Suncoast Chargers
On Thursday Seminole Ridge will have to hit the road after four straight games at home. They will face off against the Suncoast Chargers at 7:00 p.m. Both come into the match bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Having struggled with three losses in a row, Seminole Ridge finally turned things around against Glades Day on Wednesday. They put the hurt on the Gators with a sharp 3-0 win. For those keeping track at home, that's the biggest victory the Hawks have posted against the Gators since October 13, 2021.
Not only was the match a shutout, it was a big one: Seminole Ridge took every set by at least 13 points. After all that action, the final score was 25-8, 25-12, 25-12.
Seminole Ridge can attribute much of their success to Isabella Lewissohn-Moore, who had ten digs and three aces. The dominant performance gave Lewissohn-Moore a new career-high in aces.
Seminole Ridge was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 22 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least 11 aces in five consecutive games.
Meanwhile, Suncoast came into Tuesday's contest having lost five straight, but that streak is now in the rearview. They came out on top in a nail-biter against Trinity Christian Academy on Tuesday, sneaking past 3-2.
Suncoast was actually outscored in aggregate across those five sets (110-106), but they still managed to win. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 24-26, 25-20, 25-23, 14-25, 18-16.
Seminole Ridge's win ended a four-game drought at home and bumped them up to 5-6. As for Suncoast, their victory ended a three-game drought on the road and puts them at 4-8.
Seminole Ridge came up short against Suncoast when the teams last played back in September of 2023, falling 3-1. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Suncoast's Jillian Hannah, who had 40 digs. Now that Seminole Ridge knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.
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