The Argyle Eagles's road trip will continue as they head out to face the Chisholm Trail Rangers at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Argyle will be strutting in after a win while Chisholm Trail will be coming in after a defeat.
Argyle is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Texas' top teams: Rockwall, who was ranked 21st in their home state at the time (Argyle was ranked 11th). Argyle came out on top in a nail-biter against Rockwall on Friday, sneaking past 3-2.
If you add up the scores from across all five sets (106-102) Argyle actually scored fewer points, but in the end it didn't matter. The match finished with set scores of 25-23, 22-25, 25-22, 15-25, 15-11.
Piper Mickenheim and Teagan Barnett were among the main playmakers for Argyle as the former had 25 digs and ten assists and the latter had 14 digs and three aces. The dominant performance gave Barnett a new career-high in aces.
Argyle was lethal from the service line and finished the game with ten aces. They are a perfect 4-0 when they serve at least ten aces.
Meanwhile, it's hard to turn regular season success into postseason wins, a fact Chisholm Trail can now relate to. They took a 3-1 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Hornets on Friday. The Rangers have now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
While Chisholm Trail ultimately came up short, they didn't go down without a fight: they scored at least 19 points in every set they played. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-23, 23-25, 25-19, 25-20.
Argyle has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 25 of their last 27 games, which provided a nice bump to their 35-5 record this season. As for Chisholm Trail, their loss dropped their record down to 22-16.
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