Volleyball Preview: Grassfield Grizzlies vs. Hickory Hawks
Grassfield is 1-9 against Hickory since August of 2019 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Tuesday. The Grassfield Grizzlies will look to defend their home court against the Hickory Hawks at 5:30 p.m. Grassfield will be looking to extend their current three-game winning streak.
Last Wednesday, Grassfield had just enough and edged Great Bridge out 3-2.
Grassfield was actually outscored in aggregate across those five sets (102-101), but they still managed to win. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-22, 25-23, 16-25, 20-25, 15-7.
Grassfield can attribute much of their success to Kamryn Park, who had four digs and four aces, and Benisa Moore, who had 14 kills and nine digs. The dominant performance gave Park a new career-high in aces.
Grassfield was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 16 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least eight aces in seven consecutive matches.
Meanwhile, everything went Hickory's way against Oscar Smith on Thursday as Hickory made off with a 3-0 win.
Grassfield's victory bumped their record up to 5-3. As for Hickory, they have been performing well recently as they've won four of their last five games, which provided a nice bump to their 5-2 record this season.
Grassfield came up short against Hickory in their previous matchup back in August, falling 3-1. Can Grassfield avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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