Volleyball Preview: High Island Cardinals vs. Spurger Pirates
High Island and Spurger are an even 5-5 against one another since September of 2018, but not for long. The High Island Cardinals will take on the Spurger Pirates at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Both come into the game bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
High Island will bounce into Tuesday's matchup after beating Hull-Daisetta, who they hadn't topped in nine consecutive meetings. High Island won by a set and slipped past Hull-Daisetta 3-2. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Cardinals.
High Island wouldn't go down easily and took Hull-Daisetta into a fifth set where they got it done with a nine-point win. The match finished with set scores of 25-22, 16-25, 20-25, 25-13, 15-6.
Meanwhile, Spurger was able to grind out a solid victory over Burkeville on Friday, taking the game 3-1.
Spurger had a slow start but a hot finish: after dropping the first set, they turned around to win the next three. The final score came out to 21-25, 25-13, 25-23, 25-10.
High Island has been performing well recently as they've won three of their last four matches, which provided a nice bump to their 3-4 record this season. As for Spurger, they now have a winning record of 9-8.
High Island came out on top in a nail-biter against Spurger when the teams last played back in October of 2023, sneaking past 3-2. Will High Island repeat their success, or does Spurger have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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