Volleyball Preview: Lathrop Spartans vs. Central Valley Hawks
The Lathrop Spartans will head out to take on the Central Valley Hawks at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Lathrop is coming into the contest hot, having won their last six games.
Last Monday, Lathrop made easy work of Livingston and carried off a 3-0 win.
Not only was the match a shutout, it was a big one: Lathrop took every set by at least ten points. The match finished with set scores of 25-8, 25-15, 25-9.
Lathrop can attribute much of their success to Justine Mabutas, who had eight digs and eight aces, and Ayden Petroff, who had six aces, three digs, and three digs. The dominant performance gave Mabutas a new career-high in aces. The team also got some help courtesy of Genesis Contreras, who had four aces.
She wasn't the only good server: Lathrop was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 24 aces. That's a new trend for them: they were averaging 0 aces per game earlier this season, but in their last five matches they've averaged 15.8.
Meanwhile, Central Valley beat Johansen 3-1 on Monday. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Hawks.
Central Valley got the W, but it wasn't easy, at least in the fourth set. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-9, 25-18, 22-25, 31-29.
Julyanna Valencia had an outrageously good game as she had 19 digs. With that strong performance, she is now averaging an impressive 10.5 digs per game.
Lathrop's victory was their fourth straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 10-3. As for Central Valley, their record now sits at 5-6.
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