The Greensburg Pirates will head out on the road to square off against the Trinity Lutheran Cougars at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Both teams are coming into the game red-hot, with Greensburg sitting on 12 straight wins and Trinity Lutheran on six.
On Monday, Greensburg got the win against Southwestern by a conclusive 3-0.
One reason for the win was Greensburg's dynamic defense, which allowed fewer and fewer points in every set they played. The match finished with set scores of 25-18, 25-11, 25-9.
Meanwhile, Trinity Lutheran was able to grind out a solid victory over Mitchell on Saturday, taking the game 2-0.
The 2-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Trinity Lutheran was: they took both sets by at least 16 points. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-9, 25-9.
Trinity Lutheran relied on the efforts of Laura Roeder, who had four digs and two aces, and Zoey Dulaney, who had seven digs.
Trinity Lutheran couldn't miss and finished the game having scored on 44.6% of their attack attempts. That's a new trend for them: their average hitting percentage was 24% earlier this season, but in their last ten contests they've averaged 35.3%.
Greensburg has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 14 of their last 15 matches, which provided a nice bump to their 20-4 record this season. As for Trinity Lutheran, their win was their sixth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 16-6.
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