Volleyball Preview: Round Mountain Knights vs. Beatty Hornets
Round Mountain is 9-1 against Beatty since March of 2021, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Thursday. After both having extra time off, both will dust off their jerseys to take on one another at 4:00 p.m. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Round Mountain has 18 straight victories, Beatty has five straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the court.
Last Friday, Round Mountain got the win against Tonopah by a conclusive 3-0.
Round Mountain walked away with the win (and looked especially good in the first set). The match finished with set scores of 25-13, 25-20, 25-20.
Round Mountain can attribute much of their success to Laycii Thibodeaux, who had 16 digs and three aces, and Hallee Larsen, who had 29 digs, two aces, and a kill. That's the most aces Thibodeaux has posted since back in September.
Round Mountain was lethal from the service line and finished the game with ten aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least seven aces in 11 consecutive games.
Meanwhile, Beatty lost 3-0 to Indian Springs on Friday.
Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-10, 25-5, 25-14.
Round Mountain pushed their record up to 20-3 with the victory, which was their fifth straight at home. As for Beatty, their defeat dropped their record down to 4-13.
Everything went Round Mountain's way against Beatty when the teams last played on October 5th, as Round Mountain made off with a 3-0 win. Will Round Mountain repeat their success, or does Beatty have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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