After both having extra time off, the Las Animas Trojans and the Kim/Branson Mustangs will dust off their jerseys to square off against one another at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday. Las Animas is no doubt hoping to put an end to a four-game streak of away losses.
Las Animas lost 3-0 to Fowler on Thursday.
While Las Animas was kept off the board, it wasn't for a lack of trying: they cut into Fowler's winning margin in every set. The match finished with set scores of 25-14, 25-17, 25-22.
Meanwhile, it was close, but on Thursday Kim/Branson sidestepped Des Moines for a 3-2 victory.
The match was a true back-and-forth as no team won consecutive sets, but in the end it was Kim/Branson who won the one that mattered. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-19, 22-25, 25-23, 19-25, 15-12.
Kim/Branson was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 13 aces. That's a new trend for them: they were averaging 0 aces per game earlier this season, but in their last five matches they've averaged 11.2.
Las Animas' defeat dropped their record down to 3-8. As for Kim/Branson, their win ended a six-game drought at home dating back to last season and bumped them up to 7-6.
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