Volleyball Preview: East Hampton Bellringers vs. Morgan Huskies
East Hampton is 9-1 against Morgan since September of 2019, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Monday. The East Hampton Bellringers will welcome the Morgan Huskies at 5:30 p.m. East Hampton will be strutting in after a victory while Morgan will be coming in after a defeat.
Last Friday, everything went East Hampton's way against Old Lyme as East Hampton made off with a 3-0 win.
Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-13, 25-19, 25-13.
East Hampton relied on the efforts of Ava France, who had four digs and three aces, and Grace Flannery, who had three aces. The dominant performance gave Flannery a new career-high in aces.
East Hampton was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 13 aces. That's a new trend for them: they were averaging 0 aces per game earlier this season, but in their last five matches they've averaged 12.8.
Meanwhile, Morgan was not able to break out of their rough patch on Wednesday as the team picked up their fourth straight loss. They lost 3-0 to Coginchaug Regional.
The match came down to the wire multiple times:two sets needed extra rallies to declare a winner. The match finished with set scores of 25-19, 26-24, 29-27.
East Hampton is on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four games, which provided a nice bump to their 7-4 record this season. As for Morgan, their defeat dropped their record down to 3-7.
East Hampton was able to grind out a solid victory over Morgan when the teams last played on September 9th, winning 3-1. Will East Hampton repeat their success, or does Morgan have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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