Volleyball Preview: Mercedes Tigers vs. Weslaco East Wildcats
A feisty cat fight will be fought when Tigers challenges Wildcats at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday. Mercedes will be strutting in after a win while Weslaco East will be coming in after a defeat.
Having struggled with seven losses in a row, Mercedes finally turned things around against Donna on Tuesday. They won by a set and slipped past the Redskins 3-2.
Mercedes took Donna into a fifth set where they got it done with a six-point win. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-20, 25-14, 22-25, 13-25, 15-9.
Meanwhile, after a string of three wins, Weslaco East's good fortune finally ran out on Saturday. They lost 3-0 to Rivera.
Weslaco East was not held off the scoreboard, but that almost wasn't the case: they kept the third set very close. The match finished with set scores of 25-16, 25-16, 25-23.
Mercedes' victory bumped their record up to 4-13. As for Weslaco East, their defeat dropped their record down to 8-11.
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