Volleyball Game Preview: Midway Raiders vs. St. Pauls Bulldogs

By Team Reports Oct 12, 2024, 1:50am

Volleyball Preview: Midway Raiders vs. St. Pauls Bulldogs

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Midway has gone 7-0 against St. Pauls recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Tuesday. The Midway Raiders will look to defend their home court against the St. Pauls Bulldogs at 6:00 p.m. Midway is coming into the matchup hot, having won their last 13 games.

Last Thursday, Midway made easy work of Red Springs and carried off a 3-0 victory.

The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Midway was: they took every set by at least 14 points. The match finished with set scores of 25-4, 25-5, 25-11.

Kaedyn Moran went supernova for Midway, getting 14 kills, four digs, and four aces. Moran is on a roll when it comes to kills, as she's now had 12 or more in the last three games she's played dating back to last season. The team also got some help courtesy of Summer Watson, who had seven digs and four aces.

She wasn't the only good server: Midway was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 20 aces. That's the most aces they've posted in their last nine games.

Meanwhile, St. Pauls didn't have quite enough to beat Clinton on Thursday and fell 3-2.

St. Pauls took a 2-1 lead headed into the fourth set, but sadly they lost the next two. The final score came out to 25-23, 24-26, 23-25, 25-23, 15-9.

Midway is on a roll lately: they've won 14 of their last 15 contests, which provided a nice bump to their 17-3 record this season. As for St. Pauls, their loss dropped their record down to 6-13.

Midway took their win against St. Pauls when the teams last played back in September by a conclusive 3-0. Does Midway have another victory up their sleeve, or will St. Pauls turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.

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