Volleyball Game Preview: Ocean Lakes Dolphins vs. Kellam Knights

By Team Reports Oct 18, 2024, 11:31pm

Volleyball Preview: Ocean Lakes Dolphins vs. Kellam Knights

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Ocean Lakes hasn't had much luck against Kellam recently, but that could start to change on Tuesday. The Ocean Lakes Dolphins will challenge the Kellam Knights at 6:00 p.m. Both teams are coming into the match red-hot, with Ocean Lakes sitting on 12 straight victories and Kellam on nine.

Last Thursday, Ocean Lakes made easy work of Tallwood and carried off a 3-0 win.

Meanwhile, everything went Kellam's way against Green Run on Tuesday as Kellam made off with a 3-0 victory.

The match finished with set scores of 25-13, 25-15, 25-20.

Kellam's success was spearheaded by the efforts of Sadie Mixer, who had four digs and four aces, and Sydney Stone, who had 14 digs. The dominant performance gave Mixer a new career-high in aces.

Kellam was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 19 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least eight aces in three consecutive contests.

Ocean Lakes' win was their seventh straight at home, which pushed their record up to 16-3. As for Kellam, they are on a roll lately: they've won ten of their last 13 games, which provided a nice bump to their 12-7 record this season.

Everything went Ocean Lakes' way against Kellam when the teams last played back in September, as Ocean Lakes made off with a 3-0 victory. The rematch might be a little tougher for Ocean Lakes 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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