After both having extra time off, the Sweetwater Mustangs and the Merkel Badgers will dust off their jerseys to face off against one another at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday. Sweetwater will be strutting in after a win while Merkel will be coming in after a defeat.
Last Saturday, Sweetwater narrowly escaped with a victory as the team sidled past San Angelo Texas Leadership Charter Academy 3-2.
Sweetwater took San Angelo Texas Leadership Charter Academy into a fifth set where they got it done with a two-point win. The match finished with set scores of 23-25, 25-12, 25-15, 23-25, 15-13.
Meanwhile, Merkel was not able to break out of their rough patch last Tuesday as the team picked up their sixth straight loss. They came up short against Grape Creek, falling 3-0.
Sweetwater's win bumped their record up to 13-17. As for Merkel, their defeat dropped their record down to 8-17.
Everything went Sweetwater's way against Merkel when the teams last played on October 1st, as Sweetwater made off with a 3-0 victory. Will Sweetwater repeat their success, or does Merkel have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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