The Silverado Skyhawks will welcome the Shadow Ridge Mustangs at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday.
Silverado is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Nevada's top teams: Foothill, who was ranked sixth in their home state at the time (Silverado was ranked 25th). Silverado came up short against Foothill on Monday, falling 3-0. The defeat continues a trend for the Skyhawks in their matchups with the Falcons: they've now lost five in a row.
Silverado was held off the scoreboard, but that almost wasn't the case: they kept the first set very close. The match finished with set scores of 25-23, 25-15, 25-14.
Meanwhile, everything went Shadow Ridge's way against Sierra Vista on Thursday as Shadow Ridge made off with a 3-0 victory. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Mustangs.
Shadow Ridge never let Sierra Vista on the board, but things got pretty close in the third set. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-18, 25-19, 25-22.
Silverado's loss dropped their record down to 10-15. As for Shadow Ridge, they are on a roll lately: they've won nine of their last ten matches, which provided a nice bump to their 15-12 record this season.
Silverado came up short against Shadow Ridge when the teams last played back in October of 2023, falling 3-1. Can Silverado avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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