Volleyball Preview: Pinellas Park Patriots vs. East Lake Eagles
Pinellas Park hasn't had much luck against East Lake recently, but that could start to change on Wednesday. The Pinellas Park Patriots will venture away from home to challenge the East Lake Eagles at 7:30 p.m. Both come into the match bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Having struggled with five losses in a row, Pinellas Park finally turned things around against Clearwater on Tuesday. They walked away with a 3-1 win over the Tornadoes.
Pinellas Park had a slow start but a hot finish: after dropping the first set, they turned around to win the next three. The match finished with set scores of 18-25, 25-10, 25-13, 25-16.
Meanwhile, East Lake came tearing into Tuesday's contest with six straight wins and they left with even more momentum. They were the clear victor by a 3-0 margin over the Falcons.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant East Lake was: they took every set by at least ten points. The match finished with set scores of 25-15, 25-15, 25-13.
East Lake's success was the result of a balanced attack that saw several players step up, but Sydney Freyer led the charge by getting 15 digs and a kill. Freyer is on a roll when it comes to digs, as she's now had 11 or more in the last five games she's played dating back to last season. The team also got some help courtesy of Adyson Jones, who had six digs, six aces, two kills, and a block.
She wasn't the only good server: East Lake was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 11 aces. That's the most aces they've posted in their last nine games.
Pinellas Park's record is now 5-8. As for East Lake, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won eight of their last nine matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 14-5 record this season.
Pinellas Park suffered a grim 3-0 defeat to East Lake when the teams last played back in October of 2020. Can Pinellas Park avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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