After both having extra time off, the DeSmet Bulldogs and the Wessington Springs Spartans will dust off their jerseys to challenge one another at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. DeSmet will be strutting in after a win while Wessington Springs will be coming in after a defeat.
DeSmet will bounce into Tuesday's contest after beating Arlington, who they had gone 2-7 against in their nine prior meetings. DeSmet had just enough and edged Arlington out 3-2 on Tuesday. The victory was nothing new for the Bulldogs as they're now sitting on three straight.
If you add up the scores from across all five sets (103-101) DeSmet actually scored fewer points, but in the end it didn't matter. The match finished with set scores of 25-16, 23-25, 12-25, 26-24, 15-13.
Meanwhile, Wessington Springs and Hitchcock-Tulare met for a duel on Tuesday where Wessington Springs had to take the L. Wessington Springs lost 3-0 to Hitchcock-Tulare. The Spartans have struggled against the Patriots recently, as the game was their third consecutive lost matchup.
While Wessington Springs was kept off the board, it wasn't for a lack of trying: they cut into Hitchcock-Tulare's winning margin in every set. The match finished with set scores of 25-8, 25-9, 25-15.
DeSmet is on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six games, which provided a nice bump to their 15-12 record this season. As for Wessington Springs, their loss dropped their record down to 14-18.
DeSmet was able to grind out a solid win over Wessington Springs in their previous meeting back in November of 2019, winning 3-1. Does DeSmet have another victory up their sleeve, or will Wessington Springs turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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