Volleyball Preview: West Valley Wolf Pack vs. Lathrop Malemutes
West Valley is 2-8 against Lathrop since September of 2022 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Tuesday. The West Valley Wolf Pack are on the road again to play the Lathrop Malemutes at 3:00 p.m. Both come into the contest bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
West Valley is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Alaska's top teams: Monroe Catholic, who was ranked 23rd in their home state at the time (West Valley was ranked 17th). West Valley came out on top against Monroe Catholic by a score of 3-1 on Thursday.
After all that action, the final score was 25-16, 16-25, 25-17, 27-25.
Meanwhile, Lathrop posted their biggest win since September 4th on Tuesday. Everything went their way against North Pole as Lathrop made off with a 3-0 victory. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Malemutes.
The final score came out to 25-18, 25-9, 25-17.
Lathrop was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 14 aces. That's the most aces they've posted since two weeks ago.
West Valley's record now sits at 6-3-3. As for Lathrop, they pushed their record up to 20-2-1 with that win, which was their third straight on the road.
West Valley suffered a grim 3-0 defeat to Lathrop in their previous matchup last Wednesday. Can West Valley avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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