Volleyball Game Preview: Great Crossing vs. West Jessamine Colts

By Team Reports Oct 10, 2024, 12:56am

Volleyball Preview: Great Crossing vs. West Jessamine Colts

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Great Crossing will challenge the West Jessamine Colts at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday. Both teams took a loss in their last game, so they'll have plenty of motivation to get the 'W'.

Great Crossing is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Kentucky's top teams: Ballard, who was ranked 20th in their home state at the time (Great Crossing was ranked 15th). Great Crossing came up short against Ballard on Tuesday, falling 3-0. While getting shut out isn't ideal, Great Crossing hasn't been shut out since back in August.

While Great Crossing ultimately came up short, they didn't go down without a fight: they scored at least 17 points in every set they played. The match finished with set scores of 25-19, 25-21, 25-17.

Meanwhile, it was a classic East v. West duel when West Jessamine duked it out withEast Jessamine on Thursday. West Jessamine fell just short of East Jessamine by a score of 3-2.

West Jessamine wouldn't go down easily and took East Jessamine into a fifth set but they suffered a heartbreaking three-point loss. The match finished with set scores of 25-21, 25-23, 22-25, 21-25, 15-12.

The loss snapped Great Crossing's losing streak at five games and leaves them with a 18-10 record. As for West Jessamine, their defeat dropped their record down to 16-15.

Great Crossing came up short against West Jessamine in their previous matchup back in September of 2022, falling 2-0. Can Great Crossing avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.

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