On Saturday, Crescent Valley faced South Salem in a battle between two of the state's top teams. The Crescent Valley Raiders came out on top in a nail-biter against the South Salem Saxons , sneaking past 2-1. The Raiders have seen this before: they got the W the last time they saw the Saxons, too.
Crescent Valley had a slow start but a hot finish: after dropping the first set, they turned around to win the next two. The final score came out to 19-25, 25-20, 15-9.
Crescent Valley found their leader in underclassman Karsyn Horn, who had 13 digs.
Despite the loss, South Salem had strong showings from Avery Axmaker, who had 11 digs and two aces, and Leah Ioane, who had three aces. The dominant performance gave Ioane a new career-high in aces.
Crescent Valley has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 13 of their last 14 matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 19-2-3 record this season. As for South Salem, their defeat dropped their record down to 19-7-1.
Crescent Valley and Corvallis are set to duel on Tuesday. Crescent Valley will be looking to extend their current four-game winning streak. As for South Salem, they wasted no time getting back out on the court and have already played their next contest, a 3-1 loss against Sprague on the 14th.
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