Volleyball Recap: Mountain Empire Falls Despite Big Games from Rowan Smith and Breeza Valdez

By Team Reports Oct 14, 2024, 6:55am

Volleyball Recap: Mountain Empire Redhawks vs. The Cambridge School Griffins

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Mountain Empire lost against The Cambridge School last Tuesday, and unfortunately they wound up with the same result on Wednesday. The Mountain Empire Redhawks fell just short of The Cambridge School Griffins by a score of 3-2.

Mountain Empire actually scored more points across those five sets (110-103), but sadly they still had to settle for second. The match finished with set scores of 27-25, 22-25, 25-20, 12-25, 17-15.

Despite the defeat, Mountain Empire had strong showings from Breeza Valdez, who had nine digs and two aces, and Rowan Smith, who had 30 digs, two aces, and a kill. That's the most aces Smith has posted in her last four contests.

Even though they lost, Mountain Empire was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 15 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least five aces in three consecutive matches.

Mountain Empire has been struggling recently as they've lost three of their last four matchups, which put a noticeable dent in their 13-8 record this season. As for The Cambridge School, the win was the third in a row for them, bringing their record for this year to 5-7.

Mountain Empire will welcome Gompers Prep Academy at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Mountain Empire is facing Gompers Prep Academy at the right time seeing as Gompers Prep Academy is stuck on a nine-game losing streak. As for The Cambridge School, they will get to enjoy the win for a while: their next game is against O'Farrell Charter at 5:30 p.m. on October 22nd.

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