The Newport Harbor Sailors will face off against the Beckman Patriots at 5:45 p.m. on Wednesday.
Newport Harbor is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of California's top teams: Huntington Beach, who was ranked second at the time (Newport Harbor was ranked 13th). The Sailors took a 3-1 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Oilers on Friday. The defeat continues a trend for the Sailors in their meetings with the Oilers: they've now lost four in a row.
While Newport Harbor had to settle for second, they sure made a game of it, scoring at least 18 points in every set they played. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-21, 12-25, 25-18, 25-21.
Meanwhile, Beckman waltzed into their match on Tuesday with nine straight wins... but they left with ten. They came within a single set of losing the streak, but they secured a 3-2 W against the Wolverines.
The match was a true back-and-forth as no team won consecutive sets, but in the end it was Beckman who won the one that mattered. The match finished with set scores of 25-22, 22-25, 25-14, 24-26, 15-11.
Beckman's victory was their eighth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 26-4. As for Newport Harbor, their loss dropped their record down to 17-9.
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