Volleyball Preview: Eagle Mountain Knights vs. Canyon Eagles
The Eagle Mountain Knights's road trip will continue as they head out to face the Canyon Eagles on Monday.
Eagle Mountain is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Thursday. They came out on top in a nail-biter against Liberty , sneaking past 3-2.
It was an exciting match in which no team won back-to-back sets, but at the end of the day Eagle Mountain got the one that really mattered. The match finished with set scores of 25-17, 23-25, 25-13, 17-25, 15-11.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Eagle Mountain to victory, but perhaps none more so than Lexi Nichols, who had 19 digs. Nichols has been hot , having posted ten or more digs the last eight times she's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Charlotte Adams, who had three aces and 22 assists.
Eagle Mountain kept the net locked down and finished the game with 14 blocks. That's the most blocks they've managed all season.
If Fabens wanted to avenge their loss from the last time they played Canyon, they should've done a better job of containing Alainna Bellino. Canyon put the hurt on Fabens with a sharp 3-0 win on Thursday thanks in part to Bellino, who had four digs and two aces. That's the most aces she has posted in her last seven matchups.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Canyon was: they took every set by at least 12 points. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-12, 25-13, 25-9.
Canyon has been performing well recently as they've won 13 of their last 16 games, which provided a nice bump to their 26-13 record this season. As for Eagle Mountain, their victory bumped their record up to 29-18.
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