Valley Center and Oceanside are an even 5-5 against one another since September of 2018, but not for long. The Valley Center Jaguars will look to defend their home court on Wednesday against the Oceanside Pirates at 6:00 p.m. Valley Center will be looking to keep their 11-game home win streak dating back to last season alive.
Valley Center is probably headed into the game with a chip on their shoulder considering Escondido just ended the team's four-game winning streak on Friday. They fell 3-1 to the Cougars. The Jaguars haven't had much luck with the Cougars recently, as the team's come up short the last three times they've met.
Valley Center started the match hot and won the first set, but they struggled down the stretch and lost the last three. The match finished with set scores of 21-25, 27-25, 26-24, 25-17.
Defeat or not, Valley Center got some senior leadership from Grace Kraning and Grace Hawranik. Kraning had 23 digs and a block, while Hawranik had 29 digs. Kraning is also on a roll when it comes to assists, as she's now posted 16 or more in the last 16 games she's played dating back to last season.
Even though they lost, Valley Center kept the net locked down and finished the game with 12 blocks. That's the most blocks they've posted in their last seven matches.
Meanwhile, Oceanside had just enough and edged West Covina out 2-1 last Saturday.
It was an exciting match in which no team won back-to-back sets, but at the end of the day Oceanside got the one that really mattered. The match finished with set scores of 25-18, 22-25, 15-8.
Valley Center's loss dropped their record down to 13-3. As for Oceanside, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won six of their last seven matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 9-4 record this season.
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