The Sacred Heart Valkyries will square off against the Assumption Rockets at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday. Each of these teams will be fighting to keep a win streak alive as Sacred Heart comes in on nine and Assumption on four.
Last Monday, everything went Sacred Heart's way against Central as Sacred Heart made off with a 3-0 win.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Sacred Heart was: they took every set by at least 15 points. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-5, 25-10, 25-9.
Sacred Heart's success was spearheaded by the efforts of Charlotte Moyer, who had 14 digs and two aces, and Hilary Pehlke, who had five digs and five aces. The dominant performance gave Pehlke a new career-high in aces.
Sacred Heart couldn't miss and finished the game having scored on 48.1% of their attack attempts. That's a new trend for them: their average hitting percentage was 28.4% earlier this season, but in their last five matchups they've averaged 35.2%.
Meanwhile, Assumption faced Christian Academy-Louisville in a battle between two of the state's top teams on Monday. Assumption put the hurt on Christian Academy-Louisville with a sharp 3-0 victory.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Assumption was: they took every set by at least 11 points. The match finished with set scores of 25-13, 25-14, 25-13.
Kristen Simon was nothing short of spectacular: she had 12 digs and three aces. The team also got some help courtesy of Emily Keiran, who had 14 digs.
Sacred Heart has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 16 of their last 17 games, which provided a nice bump to their 33-5 record this season. As for Assumption, they pushed their record up to 29-8 with the win, which was their fifth straight at home.
Here's a few offensive stats to keep an eye on ahead of Wednesday's contest: Sacred Heart has really dialed in their serving this season, having averaged 9.4 aces per game. However, it's not like Assumption struggles in that department as they've been averaging 8.5. Given these competing strengths, it'll be interesting to see how their clash plays out.
Sacred Heart suffered a grim 3-0 defeat to Assumption in their previous meeting back in September. Can Sacred Heart avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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