Carolina Forest waltzed into their contest on Thursday with five straight wins... but they left with six. They narrowly escaped with a win as the team sidled past the Socastee Braves 3-2. The Panthers have seen this before: they got the W the last time they saw the Braves, too.
Carolina Forest wouldn't go down easily and took Socastee into a fifth set where they got it done with a seven-point win. The final score came out to 25-19, 25-13, 17-25, 22-25, 15-8.
Among those leading the charge was Alex Nikolov, who had 18 digs.
Carolina Forest has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 12 of their last 13 matches, which provided a nice bump to their 29-3 record this season. As for Socastee, the defeat snapped their winning streak at three games and leaves them with a 8-5 record.
Carolina Forest will be staying on the road on Saturday to face off against Legacy Early College at 10:30 a.m. Carolina Forest is facing Legacy Early College at the right time seeing as Legacy Early College is stuck on a three-game losing streak. As for Socastee, they will take on Catawba Ridge at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday.
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