After both having extra time off, the Gayville-Volin Raiders and the Hitchcock-Tulare Patriots will dust off their jerseys to take on one another at 6:45 p.m. on Thursday. Gayville-Volin is coming into the matchup hot, having won their last 11 games.
Gayville-Volin is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Tuesday. They had just enough and edged Wolsey-Wessington out 3-2.
Gayville-Volin had a slow start but a hot finish: after dropping the first two sets, they turned around to win the next three. The match finished with set scores of 21-25, 25-27, 27-25, 25-20, 21-19.
Meanwhile, Hitchcock-Tulare waltzed into their match on Tuesday with seven straight wins... but they left with eight. They were the clear victor by a 3-0 margin over the Wolverines.
Hitchcock-Tulare never let Herreid/Selby on the board, but things got pretty close in the second set. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-17, 25-22, 25-21.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Hitchcock-Tulare to victory, but perhaps none more so than Cambree Hoekman, who had 21 digs. The team also got some help courtesy of Gracyn Bixler, who had four digs and 15 assists.
Hitchcock-Tulare's record is now 31-2. As for Gayville-Volin, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 18 of their last 19 contests, which provided a nice bump to their 34-4 record this season.
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