The Blanchester Wildcats will head out on the road to face off against the Summit Country Day Silver Knights at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday. Both come into the match bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Last Saturday, Blanchester had just enough and edged Deer Park out 3-2.
Blanchester was actually outscored in aggregate across those five sets (111-107), but they still managed to win. The match finished with set scores of 26-24, 25-20, 17-25, 20-25, 19-17.
Meanwhile, Summit Country Day had already won three in a row and they went ahead and made it four on Saturday. They were the clear victor by a 3-0 margin over the G-Men.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Summit Country Day was: they took every set by at least 16 points. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-7, 25-9, 25-6.
Summit Country Day can attribute much of their success to Kendall Northern, who had 13 kills, two aces, and a block, and Meredith Walker, who had three aces, a kill, and 18 assists. Northern is on a roll when it comes to kills, as she's now had five or more in the last 23 games she's played dating back to last season.
Summit Country Day was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 28 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least nine aces in four consecutive games.
Blanchester's win ended a five-game drought on the road dating back to last season and puts them at 5-9. As for Summit Country Day, they pushed their record up to 16-7 with the victory, which was their sixth straight at home.
Blanchester might still be hurting after the 3-0 loss they got from Summit Country Day in their previous meeting back in October of 2023. Can Blanchester avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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