The Tri-Village Patriots will face off against the Northeastern Knights at 6:00 p.m. on Monday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Tri-Village has three straight victories, Northeastern has six straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the court.
Last Thursday, Tri-Village had just enough and edged Franklin Monroe out 3-2.
Tri-Village wouldn't go down easily and took Franklin Monroe into a fifth set where they got it done with a four-point win. The match finished with set scores of 24-26, 25-18, 25-20, 20-25, 15-11.
Mylee Bierly continued her habit of posting crazy stat lines, getting 35 digs and two aces. She is on a roll when it comes to aces, as she's now served two or more in the last three games she's played dating back to last season. The team also got some help courtesy of Zoe Ayette, who had six digs, two aces, and two aces.
She wasn't the only good server: Tri-Village was lethal from the service line and finished the game with ten aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least six aces in four consecutive contests.
Meanwhile, Northeastern didn't have quite enough to beat Blue River Valley on Monday and fell 3-2.
Northeastern actually scored more points across those five sets (101-96), but sadly they still had to settle for second. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-18, 18-25, 13-25, 25-20, 15-13.
Tri-Village now has a winning record of 9-8. As for Northeastern, their loss dropped their record down to 7-10.
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