After both having extra time off, the Wheeler Wildcats and the Allatoona Buccaneers will shake off the rust and duke it out at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
Wheeler is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Georgia's top teams: Clarkston, who was ranked fourth at the time (Wheeler was ranked first). The Wildcats fell just short of the Angoras by a score of 2-1 last Tuesday. The contest marked the Wildcats' lowest-scoring matchup so far this season.
In an exciting match in which no team claimed back-to-back wins, Wheeler sadly wound up on the wrong side. The match finished with set scores of 25-23, 22-23, 15-13.
Meanwhile, Allatoona waltzed into their game last Tuesday with two straight wins... but they left with three. They came within a single set of losing the streak, but they secured a 2-1 W against the Warriors.
Allatoona had a slow start but a hot finish: after dropping the first set, they turned around to win the next two. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 24-26, 25-19, 25-20.
Having lost for the first time this season, Wheeler fell to 7-1. As for Allatoona, the victory got them back to even at 4-4.
Wheeler beat Allatoona 2-0 in their previous meeting back in March. Will the Wildcats repeat their success, or do the Buccaneers have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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