Volleyball Preview: Yorktown Tigers vs. Lawrence North Wildcats
Yorktown has gone 9-0 against Lawrence North recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Saturday. The Yorktown Tigers' road trip will continue as they head out to face the Lawrence North Wildcats at 7:00 p.m. The two teams are strolling into their matchups after big wins in their previous games.
Yorktown is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Saturday. They put the hurt on Greenfield-Central with a sharp 3-0 win.
The match finished with set scores of 25-17, 25-10, 25-14.
Yorktown's victory was a true team effort, with many players turning in solid performances. Perhaps the best among them was Addi Applegate, who had seven digs and four aces. That's the most aces Applegate has posted in her last seven matches. The team also got some help courtesy of Bailey Stevens, who had five digs and 19 assists.
Meanwhile, Lawrence North had already won two in a row and they went ahead and made it three on Saturday. They blew past the Bears 3-0.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Lawrence North was: they took every set by at least 15 points. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-8, 25-8, 25-10.
Yorktown is on a roll lately: they've won 22 of their last 23 games, which provided a nice bump to their 30-2 record this season. As for Lawrence North, the win got them back to even at 16-16.
Everything went Yorktown's way against Lawrence North when the teams last played back in August of 2021, as Yorktown made off with a 3-0 victory. The rematch might be a little tougher for Yorktown since the squad won't have the home-court advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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