The Mountain Brook Spartans and the Muscle Shoals Trojans are set to duel on Wednesday. Muscle Shoals took a loss in their last matchup and will be looking to turn the tables on Mountain Brook, who comes in off a win.
Mountain Brook is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Thursday. Everything went their way against Huffman as Mountain Brook made off with a 3-0 victory. For those keeping track at home, that's the biggest win the Spartans have posted since September 24th.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Mountain Brook was: they took every set by at least 14 points. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-9, 25-8, 25-11.
Mountain Brook can attribute much of their success to Caroline Kelley, who had seven aces and four digs. The dominant performance gave Kelley a new career-high in aces.
Mountain Brook couldn't miss and finished the game having scored on 48.3% of their attack attempts. That's the best hitting percentage they've posted all season.
Meanwhile, Muscle Shoals came up short against Athens on Thursday and fell 3-1. The loss continues a trend for the Trojans in their matchups with the Golden Eagles: they've now lost four in a row.
The match finished with set scores of 25-17, 25-16, 26-28, 25-14.
Mountain Brook has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won seven of their last eight matches, which provided a nice bump to their 22-16 record this season. As for Muscle Shoals, their defeat ended a four-game streak of away wins and brought them to 24-16.
Here's a few offensive stats to keep an eye on ahead of Wednesday's game: Mountain Brook has really dialed in their serving this season, having averaged 7.6 aces per game. However, it's not like Muscle Shoals struggles in that department as they've been averaging 7.5. Given these competing strengths, it'll be interesting to see how their clash plays out.
Mountain Brook was able to grind out a solid victory over Muscle Shoals in their previous matchup back in September of 2023, winning 2-0. Will Mountain Brook repeat their success, or does Muscle Shoals have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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