Volleyball Preview: Hoggard Vikings vs. Topsail Pirates
Hoggard is on a six-game streak of home wins, while Topsail is on a eight-game streak of away wins: one of those streaks is about to end. The Hoggard Vikings will face off against the Topsail Pirates at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Last Thursday, Hoggard made easy work of Laney and carried off a 3-0 victory.
The match came down to the wire multiple times:two sets needed extra rallies to declare a winner. The match finished with set scores of 26-24, 26-24, 25-21.
Meanwhile, everything went Topsail's way against North Brunswick on Tuesday as Topsail made off with a 3-0 win.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Topsail was: they took every set by at least 14 points. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-11, 25-8, 25-10.
Topsail's success was spearheaded by the efforts of Hannah Gates, who had three aces and 15 assists, and Hannah Losey, who had four digs and two aces. The dominant performance gave Gates a new career-high in aces.
Topsail was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 12 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least nine aces in 14 consecutive matches.
Hoggard is on a roll lately: they've won 12 of their last 14 contests, which provided a nice bump to their 15-5 record this season. As for Topsail, their victory bumped their record up to 13-1.
Hoggard beat Topsail 3-1 in their previous matchup on September 5th. Does Hoggard have another victory up their sleeve, or will Topsail turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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