Channel Islands and Santa Paula are an even 5-5 against one another since September of 2016, but not for long. The Channel Islands Raiders will take on the Santa Paula Cardinals at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday.
Channel Islands might be feeling deja-vu: they lost 3-0 to Santa Clara, which was the same score (and result) they got the week prior.
Meanwhile, Santa Paula sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 3-2 victory over Fillmore on Tuesday.
Santa Paula took Fillmore into a fifth set where they got it done with a two-point win. After all that action, the final score was 25-15, 26-24, 20-25, 22-25, 15-13.
Santa Paula was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 23 aces. That's the most aces they've posted since was before the start of last season.
Channel Islands' loss dropped their record down to 0-2. As for Santa Paula, they pushed their record up to 3-3 with that win, which was their third straight on the road.
Channel Islands was able to grind out a solid victory over Santa Paula when the teams last played back in October of 2023, winning 3-1. The rematch might be a little tougher for Channel Islands since the team won't have the home-court advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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