The Horizon Hawks are taking a road trip to take on the Winter Park Wildcats at 4:00 p.m. on Friday. Both teams are coming into the contest red-hot, with Horizon sitting on three straight victories and Winter Park on six.
Horizon is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Tuesday. They narrowly escaped with a win as the squad sidled past Freedom 3-2. For those keeping track at home, that's the closest victory the Hawks have posted since April 12th.
Horizon was actually outscored in aggregate across those five sets (109-104), but they still managed to win. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 20-25, 25-21, 17-25, 25-23, 17-15.
Meanwhile, Winter Park faced Timber Creek in a battle between two of the state's top teams on Tuesday. The Wildcats were the clear victors by a 3-0 margin over the Wolves.
Winter Park was especially dominant in the first set. The final score came out to 25-15, 25-21, 25-17.
Winter Park's win bumped their record up to 20-5. As for Horizon, their victory bumped their record up to 19-10.
Horizon came out on top in a nail-biter against Winter Park when the teams last played back in April, sneaking past 3-2. The rematch might be a little tougher for the Hawks since the team 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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