Seabreeze is 0-10 against New Smyrna Beach since September of 2014 but things could change on Monday. The Seabreeze Sandcrabs will square off against the New Smyrna Beach Barracudas at 7:00 p.m. The two teams each escaped (but just barely!) with wins against their previous opponents.
Last Thursday, it was close, but Seabreeze sidestepped Menendez for a 3-2 win. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Sandcrabs.
Seabreeze took Menendez into a fifth set where they got it done with a three-point win. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-17, 20-25, 21-25, 25-12, 15-12.
Victoria Kenyon and Peyton Hebert were among the main playmakers for Seabreeze as the former had 15 digs and the latter had seven kills and five digs.
Seabreeze 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 six aces in eight consecutive matches.
Meanwhile, New Smyrna Beach had just enough and edged Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy out 2-1 on Saturday.
New Smyrna Beach was actually outscored in aggregate across those three sets (60-54), but they still managed to win. After all that action, the final score was 14-25, 25-23, 15-12.
Seabreeze is on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 5-3 record this season. As for New Smyrna Beach, their victory bumped their record up to 7-4.
Here's a few offensive stats to keep an eye on ahead of Monday's contest: Seabreeze has serving mastered this season, having averaged 10.9 aces per game. However, it's not like New Smyrna Beach struggles in that department as they've been averaging 6.3. Given these competing strengths, it'll be interesting to see how their clash plays out.
Seabreeze came up short against New Smyrna Beach in their previous matchup back in October of 2022, falling 3-1. Can Seabreeze avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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