The ALA - Queen Creek Patriots will head out on the road to challenge the ALA - Gilbert North Eagles at 5:30 p.m. on Friday. Both teams are coming into the match red-hot, with ALA - Queen Creek sitting on 12 straight wins and ALA - Gilbert North on 14.
ALA - Queen Creek is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Arizona's top teams: Centennial, who was ranked 16th at the time (ALA - Queen Creek was ranked eighth). The Patriots put the hurt on the Coyotes with a sharp 3-0 victory on Wednesday.
ALA - Queen Creek not only won, but also showed off some consistency: they kept Centennial between 17 and 19 points across their sets. The final score came out to 25-17, 25-19, 25-18.
ALA - Queen Creek can attribute much of their success to Hayden Holman, who had 15 digs.
Meanwhile, ALA - Gilbert North made easy work of Combs on Tuesday and carried off a 3-0 win.
Not only was the match a shutout, it was a big one: ALA - Gilbert North took every set by at least ten points. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-13, 25-15, 25-10.
ALA - Gilbert North pushed their record up to 21-2 with the victory, which was their fifth straight at home. As for ALA - Queen Creek, their win bumped their record up to 22-3.
ALA - Queen Creek suffered a grim 3-0 defeat to ALA - Gilbert North when the teams last played back in March. Can the Patriots avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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