Volleyball Game Preview: Stone Ridge Christian Leaves Home

By Team Reports Sep 13, 2024, 5:00am

Volleyball Preview: Stone Ridge Christian Knights vs. Mariposa County Grizzlies

Suggested Video

The Stone Ridge Christian Knights will be staying on the road on Monday to face off against the Mariposa County Grizzlies at 6:30 p.m. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.

Having struggled with six defeats in a row, Stone Ridge Christian finally turned things around against Denair on Monday. Everything went their way against the Coyotes as they made off with a 3-0 win. For those keeping track at home, that's the biggest victory the Knights have posted since August 26th.

The final score came out to 25-11, 25-18, 25-14.

Meanwhile, Mariposa County made easy work of Waterford on Wednesday and carried off a 3-0 win.

Not only was the match a shutout, it was a big one: Mariposa County took every set by at least eight points. After all that action, the final score was 25-3, 25-11, 25-17.

Mariposa County was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 13 aces. That's a new trend for them: they were averaging 0 aces per game earlier this season, but in their last five games they've averaged 11.4.

Stone Ridge Christian's victory ended a five-game drought on the road dating back to last season and puts them at 5-8. As for Mariposa County, they are on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven contests, which provided a nice bump to their 13-6 record this season.

Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps