The Mather Rangers will challenge the Northtown Pumas at 5:00 p.m. on Monday.
On Thursday, Mather came up short against Lake View and fell 2-0. The defeat continues a trend for the Rangers in their meetings with the Wildcats: they've now lost four in a row.
The loss didn't mean the game wasn't competitive: Lake View scored at least 17 points in every set. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-17, 25-18.
Meanwhile, Northtown entered their tilt with Steinmetz College Prep on Thursday with two consecutive wins, and they'll enter their next game with three. They came within a single set of losing the streak, but they secured a 2-1 W against the Silver Streaks.
Northtown 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 21-25, 25-21, 25-19.
Mather's defeat dropped their record down to 0-3-1. As for Northtown, they pushed their record up to 3-0 with the victory, which was their third straight on the road.
Mather couldn't quite get it done against Northtown when the teams last played back in March of 2024 as they fell 2-0. Can the Rangers avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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