After both having extra time off, the Boardman Spartans and the Hathaway Brown Blazers will shake off the cobwebs and hit the court against one another at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Boardman has nine straight wins, Hathaway Brown has seven straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the court.
Boardman proved they can win big on Wednesday (they won by three) and on Thursday they proved they can win the close ones too. They came out on top in a nail-biter against Cuyahoga Valley Christian Academy, sneaking past 3-2.
Boardman was actually outscored in aggregate across those five sets (107-100), but they still managed to win. The final score came out to 17-25, 18-25, 25-21, 25-23, 15-13.
Meanwhile, Hathaway Brown came up short against Canfield on Thursday, falling 3-0.
Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-18, 25-14, 25-5.
Hathaway Brown's loss dropped their record down to 2-14. As for Boardman, their victory bumped their record up to 17-5.
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