Volleyball Game Preview: Lafayette Central Catholic Knights vs. West Lafayette Red Devils

By Team Reports Oct 1, 2024, 8:30am

Volleyball Preview: Lafayette Central Catholic Knights vs. West Lafayette Red Devils

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The Lafayette Central Catholic Knights will head out on the road to take on the West Lafayette Red Devils at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Each of these teams will be fighting to keep a win streak alive as Lafayette Central Catholic comes in on three and West Lafayette on four.

Last Saturday, Lafayette Central Catholic narrowly escaped with a win as the team sidled past Indianapolis Lutheran 2-1.

Lafayette Central Catholic had a slow start but a hot finish: after dropping the first set, they turned around to win the next two. The final score came out to 13-25, 25-14, 15-13.

Meanwhile, West Lafayette made easy work of Frontier on Monday and carried off a 3-0 victory.

The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant West Lafayette was: they took every set by at least 12 points. The match finished with set scores of 25-7, 25-13, 25-12.

West Lafayette couldn't miss and finished the game having scored on 50.7% of their attack attempts. The last time their hitting percentage was this high was back in August of 2023.

Lafayette Central Catholic is on a roll lately: they've won 15 of their last 17 matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 17-6 record this season. As for West Lafayette, they pushed their record up to 13-4 with the win, which was their seventh straight at home dating back to last season.

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