After flying high against Mayer on Saturday, Joseph City came back down to earth. The Joseph City Wildcats fell just short of the Ash Fork Spartans by a score of 3-2 on Saturday. The Wildcats' defeat signaled the end of their five-game winning streak.
Joseph City took a 2-1 lead headed into the fourth set, but sadly they lost the next two. The match finished with set scores of 21-25, 25-19, 11-25, 25-13, 15-9.
Joseph City lost despite a true team effort on the offense, the best among them being Sahzira Schoby, who had seven digs and two aces. Schoby has been hot , having posted two or more aces the last six times she's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Jaydiana Kinlicheenie, who had 11 digs and two aces.
Even though they lost, Joseph City was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 14 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least 12 aces in six consecutive games.
Joseph City's loss dropped their record down to 12-16. As for Ash Fork, the victory (which was their ninth in a row) raised their record to 29-5.
Joseph City will head out to challenge Anthem Prep at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Ash Fork has already played their next match, a 3-0 defeat against Mogollon on the 2nd.
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