Volleyball Preview: Seneca Bobcats vs. Pickens Blue Flame
Seneca hasn't had much luck against Pickens recently, but that could start to change on Thursday. The Seneca Bobcats will be playing at home against the Pickens Blue Flame at 7:00 p.m. Pickens took a loss in their last game and will be looking to turn the tables on Seneca, who comes in off a win.
Last Friday, everything went Seneca's way against Berea as Seneca made off with a 3-0 victory. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Bobcats.
The 3-0 doesn't show just how dominant Seneca was: they took every set by at least 13 points. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-9, 25-12, 25-4.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Seneca to victory, but perhaps none more so than Anna Campbell Nations, who had seven aces. The dominant performance gave Nations a new career-high in aces. The team also got some help courtesy of Kylie Kalchthaler, who had four aces.
Seneca couldn't miss and finished the game having scored on 100% of their attack attempts. That's a new trend for them: their average hitting percentage was 0% earlier this season, but in their last five contests they've averaged 37.8%.
Meanwhile, Pickens was not able to break out of their rough patch on Tuesday as the team picked up their third straight defeat. They fell just short of Daniel by a score of 3-2.
Pickens took Daniel into a fifth set but they suffered a heartbreaking two-point loss. After all that action, the final score was 25-17, 25-20, 17-25, 24-26, 15-13.
Seneca has been performing well recently as they've won four of their last five matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 6-5 record this season. As for Pickens, their loss ended a three-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 9-10.
Seneca came up short against Pickens in their previous meeting back in August of 2021, falling 2-0. Thankfully for Seneca, Hannah Campbell (who had eight aces and five digs) won't be suiting up this time. Will that be enough to change the final result? There's only one way to find out.
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