Volleyball Preview: Navarre Raiders vs. Pace Patriots
Navarre has won five straight games at home (dating back to last season), while Pace has won five straight on the road, but those streaks won't matter much on Thursday. The Navarre Raiders will face off against the Pace Patriots at 6:30 p.m. The two teams each escaped (but just barely!) with wins against their previous opponents.
On Tuesday, it was close, but Navarre sidestepped Pensacola Catholic for a 3-2 victory.
The match was a true back-and-forth as no team won consecutive sets, but in the end it was Navarre who won the one that mattered. After all that action, the final score was 25-18, 18-25, 25-14, 17-25, 16-14.
Meanwhile, Pace narrowly escaped with a win as the team sidled past Crestview 3-2.
Pace took Crestview into a fifth set where they got it done with a five-point win. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 23-25, 25-21, 25-9, 21-25, 15-10.
Navarre's victory bumped their record up to 11-2. As for Pace, they are on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven games, which provided a nice bump to their 11-4 record this season.
Navarre came out on top in a nail-biter against Pace when the teams last played back in October of 2023, sneaking past 3-2. Does Navarre have another victory up their sleeve, or will Pace turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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