Volleyball Preview: Garden Plain Owls vs. Kingman Eagles
Garden Plain has been on the road for ten straight, but on Tuesday they'll finally head home. It'll be Battle of the Birds when Owls dukes it out withthe Kingman Eagles at 5:00 p.m. Given that both suffered a loss in their last game, they both have a little extra motivation heading into this contest.
Garden Plain is probably headed into the game with a chip on their shoulder considering Lebo just ended the team's six-game winning streak on Saturday. They fell just short of the Wolves by a score of 2-1. While the Owls didn't get the win, they did start the game off strong, beating the Wolves 25-22 in the first period.
The 2-1 doesn't really show just how close this match was: all the sets Garden Plain lost were decided by three points or less. The match finished with set scores of 21-25, 25-22, 26-24.
Meanwhile, Kingman unfortunately witnessed the end of their four-game winning streak on Saturday. They took a 2-0 hit to the loss column at the hands of Pratt.
Kingman was not held off the scoreboard, but that almost wasn't the case: they kept the second set very close. The match finished with set scores of 25-20, 25-22.
Garden Plain's defeat dropped their record down to 17-7. As for Kingman, their loss dropped their record down to 7-17.
Garden Plain came out on top in a nail-biter against Kingman when the teams last played back in September, sneaking past 2-1. Will Garden Plain repeat their success, or does Kingman have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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