Ballard hasn't had much luck against Northeast Vernon County recently, but that could start to change on Saturday. The Ballard Bulldogs will challenge the Northeast Vernon County Knights at 10:30 a.m. Given that the two teams suffered a loss in their last game, they both have a little extra motivation heading into this matchup.
Ballard is headed into Saturday's match looking for a big change in momentum after dropping their sixth straight game on Tuesday. They fell just short of Sheldon by a score of 3-2. While the Bulldogs didn't get the win, they did start the game off strong, beating the Panthers 25-15 in the first set.
Ballard actually scored more points across those five sets (108-99), but sadly they still had to settle for second. The match finished with set scores of 15-25, 17-25, 27-25, 25-23, 15-10.
Even though they lost, Ballard was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 21 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least five aces in four consecutive contests.
Meanwhile, Northeast Vernon County came up short against Hume on Tuesday and fell 3-1.
The final score came out to 25-16, 25-23, 22-25, 25-11.
Ballard's loss dropped their record down to 4-17-1. As for Northeast Vernon County, their defeat dropped their record down to 11-14-2.
Ballard suffered a grim 3-0 defeat to Northeast Vernon County in their previous meeting last Tuesday. Can Ballard avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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