Colony and Lathrop are an even 3-3 against one another since October of 2014, but not for long. The Colony Knights will stay at home for another game and welcome the Lathrop Malemutes at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both come into the game bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Colony is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Alaska's top teams: North Pole, who was ranked 24th in their home state at the time (Colony was ranked 13th). Colony walked away with a 3-1 win over North Pole on Friday.
Colony was staring down a 1-1 deficit headed into the third set, but they rallied to take the next two for the win. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-19, 21-25, 25-15, 25-21.
Meanwhile, Lathrop waltzed into their match on Tuesday with two straight wins... but they left with three. Everything went their way against the Wolf Pack as they made off with a 3-0 victory.
While Lathrop won a shutout, things came down to the wire in the second set they played. The match finished with set scores of 25-17, 25-20, 25-22.
Colony is on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four contests, which provided a nice bump to their 9-7 record this season. As for Lathrop, their win bumped their record up to 22-2-1.
Everything went Colony's way against Lathrop when the teams last played back in September of 2023 as Colony made off with a 3-0 victory. Does Colony have another victory up their sleeve, or will Lathrop turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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