Buckeye Trail has enjoyed a three-game homestand but will soon have to dust off their road jerseys. They will challenge the Strasburg-Franklin Tigers at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
On Saturday, Buckeye Trail didn't have quite enough to beat Union Local and fell 3-2. The Warriors haven't had much luck with the Jets recently, as the team's come up short the last three times they've met.
Buckeye Trail started the match hot and won the first two sets, but they struggled down the stretch and lost the last three. The match finished with set scores of 20-25, 23-25, 25-20, 25-22, 15-12.
Meanwhile, Strasburg-Franklin waltzed into their game on Saturday with three straight wins... but they left with four. They won by a set and slipped past the Redskins 3-2.
Strasburg-Franklin was actually outscored in aggregate across those five sets (110-101), but they still managed to win. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-23, 25-22, 15-25, 19-25, 17-15.
Buckeye Trail's defeat dropped their record down to 10-2. As for Strasburg-Franklin, they pushed their record up to 12-2 with the victory, which was their fifth straight at home.
Buckeye Trail skirted past Strasburg-Franklin 3-2 when the teams last played back in August. The rematch might be a little tougher for Buckeye Trail since the squad won't have the home-court advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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