The North Middlesex Regional Patriots and the Wellesley Raiders are set to duel on Thursday.
Last Tuesday, North Middlesex Regional came up short against Groton-Dunstable and fell 3-1. The Patriots have struggled against the Crusaders recently, as their game on Tuesday was their eighth consecutive lost matchup.
North Middlesex Regional started the match hot and won the first set, but they struggled down the stretch and lost the last three. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 23-25, 25-21, 25-19, 25-19.
Meanwhile, Wellesley had already won three in a row and they went ahead and made it four on Tuesday. They walked away with a 3-1 victory over the Wamps.
North Middlesex Regional's defeat dropped their record down to 10-7. As for Wellesley, they are on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven matchups, which provided a massive bump to their 7-5 record this season.
North Middlesex Regional came up short against Wellesley when the teams last played back in November of 2016, falling 3-1. Can North Middlesex Regional avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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