The Spring Valley Cardinals will face off against the Elmwood/Plum City Wolves at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. Spring Valley has a tough task ahead: they'll enter the matchup with five straight losses, while Elmwood/Plum City will come in with five straight wins.
Spring Valley lost 3-0 to Regis on Monday.
The match finished with set scores of 25-20, 25-16, 25-20.
Elk Mound typically has all the answers at home, but on Thursday Elmwood/Plum City proved too difficult a challenge. They came out on top in a nail-biter against the Mounders , sneaking past 3-2.
Elmwood/Plum City wouldn't go down easily and took Elk Mound into a fifth set where they got it done with a five-point win. The final score came out to 16-25, 25-17, 26-24, 22-25, 15-10.
Elmwood/Plum City can attribute much of their success to Norah Auth, who had 12 digs and three aces.
She wasn't the only good server: Elmwood/Plum City was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 14 aces. That's the most aces they've posted since back in September of 2023.
Spring Valley's defeat dropped their record down to 12-7. As for Elmwood/Plum City, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won eight of their last nine games, which provided a nice bump to their 17-7 record this season.
Spring Valley beat Elmwood/Plum City 3-1 when the teams last played back in October of 2023. Will Spring Valley repeat their success, or does Elmwood/Plum City have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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