After both having extra time off, the Salida Spartans and the Woodland Park Panthers will shake off the cobwebs and square off against one another at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Having struggled with three defeats in a row, Salida finally turned things around against Atlas Preparatory School on Tuesday. They blew past the Gryphons 3-0.
The final score came out to 25-10, 25-9, 25-18.
Salida can attribute much of their success to Cedar Lengrich, who had three aces and 24 assists. Lengrich has been hot recently, having posted 19 or more assists the last ten times she's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Madisyn Wilcox, who had four aces.
She wasn't the only good server: Salida was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 16 aces. That's the most aces they've posted since back in October of 2023.
Meanwhile, everything went Woodland Park's way against Manitou Springs on Tuesday as Woodland Park made off with a 3-0 win.
While Woodland Park won a shutout, things came down to the wire in the third set they played. The match finished with set scores of 25-20, 25-18, 25-23.
Salida pushed their record up to 8-7 with the victory, which was their third straight on the road. As for Woodland Park, they are on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four matches, which provided a nice bump to their 10-7 record this season.
Salida was able to grind out a solid win over Woodland Park when the teams last played back in October of 2023, winning 3-1. Does Salida have another victory up their sleeve, or will Woodland Park turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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