The Towner-Granville-Upham Titans will venture away from home to square off against the Bottineau Braves/Stars at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday. The two teams each escaped (but just barely!) with wins against their previous opponents.
Towner-Granville-Upham is headed out to face Bottineau after opening their season at home and giving their fans just what they were looking for. Towner-Granville-Upham sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 3-2 victory over Velva on Thursday.
Towner-Granville-Upham had a slow start but a hot finish: after dropping the first two sets, they turned around to win the next three. The match finished with set scores of 23-25, 16-25, 25-19, 26-24, 15-10.
Meanwhile, Bottineau entered their tilt with Velva on Saturday with three consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with four. They won by a set and slipped past the Aggies 2-1.
The match was a true back-and-forth as no team won consecutive sets, but in the end it was Bottineau who won the one that mattered. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-16, 22-25, 15-9.
Towner-Granville-Upham took their win against Bottineau when the teams last played back in November of 2019 by a conclusive 3-0. Will Towner-Granville-Upham repeat their success, or does Bottineau have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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