Hendersonville is 2-8 against Polk County since September of 2017 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Tuesday. The Hendersonville Bearcats will face off against the Polk County Wolverines at 5:30 p.m. Both come into the contest bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Hendersonville is headed into the match having just posted their biggest victory since August 15th on Thursday. They put the hurt on R-S Central with a sharp 3-0 win. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Bearcats.
While Hendersonville won a shutout, things came down to the wire in the first set they played. The match finished with set scores of 25-18, 25-22, 25-14.
Patton typically has all the answers at home, but on Thursday Polk County proved too difficult a challenge. They came out on top against the Panthers by a score of 3-1.
Polk County had a slow start but a hot finish: after dropping the first set, they turned around to win the next three. The final score came out to 22-25, 25-15, 25-19, 25-22.
Charley Dusenbury and Aslyn Scruggs were among the main playmakers for Polk County as the former had nine digs and 20 assists and the latter had seven digs and three aces. The dominant performance gave Scruggs a new career-high in aces.
Polk County was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 14 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least seven aces in 12 consecutive matchups.
Hendersonville's record is now 6-9. As for Polk County, they pushed their record up to 11-3 with the victory, which was their third straight on the road.
Hendersonville suffered a grim 3-0 defeat to Polk County in their previous meeting back in August. Can Hendersonville avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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