The Eagle's Landing Christian Academy Chargers will venture away from home to challenge the Marist War Eagles at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday. Eagle's Landing Christian Academy is looking to tack on another W to their three-game streak on the road.
Eagle's Landing Christian Academy is probably headed into the contest with a chip on their shoulder considering Union Grove just ended the team's eight-game winning streak on Saturday. They lost 3-0 to the Wolverines. The shutout was out of character for the Chargers seeing as the last time the team failed to score was back in September.
The loss didn't mean the game wasn't competitive: Union Grove scored at least 17 points in every set. The match finished with set scores of 25-21, 25-18, 25-17.
Meanwhile, it can be hard to translate regular season success to the playoffs, but Marist had no problem doing just that on Tuesday. Everything went their way against the Yellow Jackets as they made off with a 3-0 win. The War Eagles are really starting to get used to good results now that the team has won 23 straight.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Marist was: they took every set by at least 18 points. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-7, 25-4, 25-3.
Marist couldn't miss and finished the game having scored on 58.5% of their attack attempts. That's a new trend for them: their average hitting percentage was 29.3% earlier this season, but in their last ten games they've averaged 42.7%.
Eagle's Landing Christian Academy's defeat dropped their record down to 23-12. As for Marist, their victory bumped their record up to 29-3.
Here's a few offensive stats to keep an eye on ahead of Saturday's match: Eagle's Landing Christian Academy has really dialed in their serving this season, having averaged 6.6 aces per game. However, it's not like Marist struggles in that department as they've been averaging 9.7. Given these competing strengths, it'll be interesting to see how their clash plays out.
Eagle's Landing Christian Academy came up short against Marist in their previous meeting back in August of 2017, falling 2-0. Can Eagle's Landing Christian Academy avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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