Woodland Regional is 8-2 against Kennedy since October of 2014, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Friday. It'll be Battle of the Birds when Hawks takes on the Kennedy Eagles at 5:00 p.m. The two teams are strolling into their contests after big wins in their previous games.
Woodland Regional is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Connecticut's top teams: Seymour, who was ranked tenth in their home state at the time (Woodland Regional was ranked 21st). Everything went Woodland Regional's way against Seymour on Thursday as Woodland Regional made off with a 3-0 victory. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Hawks.
Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-22, 25-17, 25-22.
Sophia Ligi and Ava Bianchini were among the main playmakers for Woodland Regional as the former had six digs and two aces and the latter had 15 kills and ten digs. Bianchini is on a roll when it comes to kills, as she's now had five or more in the last 43 games she's played dating back to last season.
Meanwhile, Kennedy had already won three in a row and they went ahead and made it four last Thursday. They were the clear victor by a 3-0 margin over the Bulldogs.
Woodland Regional's win bumped their record up to 17-2-1. As for Kennedy, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won six of their last seven games, which provided a nice bump to their 8-5 record this season.
Everything went Woodland Regional's way against Kennedy when the teams last played back in September of 2023, as Woodland Regional made off with a 3-0 victory. Will Woodland Regional repeat their success, or does Kennedy have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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