The Archbishop Moeller Fighting Crusaders will head out on the road to face off against the St. Xavier Bombers at 7:00 p.m. on Friday. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Archbishop Moeller is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Ohio's top teams: Lakota East, who was ranked seventh at the time (Archbishop Moeller was ranked 16th). The Fighting Crusaders blew past the Thunderhawks 3-0 on Wednesday.
Archbishop Moeller never let Lakota East 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, 25-21, 25-22.
Meanwhile, St. Xavier made easy work of Archbishop McNicholas on Wednesday and carried off a 3-0 victory. The win continues a trend for the Bombers in their matchups with the Rockets: they've now won four in a row.
While St. Xavier won a shutout, things came down to the wire in the second set they played. The final score came out to 25-20, 26-24, 25-18.
St. Xavier's victory bumped their record up to 6-1. As for Archbishop Moeller, they pushed their record up to 5-3 with the win, which was their ninth straight at home dating back to last season.
Archbishop Moeller suffered a grim 3-0 defeat to St. Xavier when the teams last played back in May of 2024. Can the Fighting Crusaders avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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