The Paradise Adventist Academy Cougars have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the Princeton Eagles at 5:30 p.m. on Monday. Paradise Adventist Academy will be strutting in after a victory while Princeton will be coming in after a defeat.
On Friday, Paradise Adventist Academy narrowly escaped with a win as the squad sidled past Herlong 2-1.
The match was a true back-and-forth as no team won consecutive sets, but in the end it was Paradise Adventist Academy who won the one that mattered. After all that action, the final score was 25-19, 22-25, 15-8.
Meanwhile, Princeton didn't have quite enough to beat CORE Butte on Thursday and fell 3-2. The Eagles haven't had much luck with the Lynx recently, as the team's come up short the last six times they've met.
In an exciting match in which no team claimed back-to-back wins, Princeton sadly wound up on the wrong side. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-14, 21-25, 26-24, 25-27, 15-10.
The loss doesn't tell the whole story though, as several players had good games. One of the most active was Reyna Sullivan, who had 13 kills, five digs, and four aces. With that strong performance, she is now averaging an impressive 5.4 kills per game. The team also got some help courtesy of Mariel Parra, who had 14 digs and five aces.
She wasn't the only good server: Princeton was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 14 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least eight aces in five consecutive games.
Paradise Adventist Academy is on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four matchups, which provided a massive bump to their 6-7 record this season. As for Princeton, their loss ended a four-game streak of away wins and brought them to 9-9.
Paradise Adventist Academy came up short against Princeton in their previous matchup back in October of 2023, falling 3-1. Will Paradise Adventist Academy have more luck at home instead of on the road? Come back here after the game to get an analysis of the match and other volleyball content.
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