Volleyball Preview: Faith Baptist Christian Academy Crusaders vs. Memorial Day Matadors
The Faith Baptist Christian Academy Crusaders have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the Memorial Day Matadors at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both come into the contest bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
On Tuesday, Faith Baptist Christian Academy narrowly escaped with a win as the team sidled past Frederica Academy 3-2.
Faith Baptist Christian Academy was actually outscored in aggregate across those five sets (104-98), but they still managed to win. The match finished with set scores of 17-25, 25-22, 25-20, 16-25, 15-12.
Faith Baptist Christian Academy was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 11 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least six aces in 14 consecutive matches.
Meanwhile, Memorial Day beat Savannah Classical Academy 3-1 last Tuesday. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Matadors.
If you add up the scores from across all four sets (92-88) Memorial Day actually scored fewer points, but in the end it didn't matter. The final score came out to 13-25, 25-22, 25-22, 25-23.
Faith Baptist Christian Academy's victory was their 20th straight at home dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 18-1. As for Memorial Day, their win ended an eight-game drought at home dating back to last season and bumped them up to 2-7.
Faith Baptist Christian Academy took their victory against Memorial Day in their previous matchup on September 5th by a conclusive 3-0. Will Faith Baptist Christian Academy repeat their success, or does Memorial Day have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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