The Spring Valley Vikings and the West Florence Knights are set to duel on Thursday. The timing isn't great for Spring Valley: they have been struggling with four straight losses at home, while West Florence has snatched up three consecutive wins on the road.
Spring Valley is headed into the game having just suffered their biggest loss since September 5th on Tuesday. They lost 3-0 to Lugoff-Elgin. The shutout was out of character for the Vikings seeing as the last time the team failed to score was back in September.
The match came down to the wire multiple times:two sets needed extra rallies to declare a winner. The match finished with set scores of 26-24, 25-22, 26-24.
Meanwhile, West Florence made easy work of Ridge View on Thursday and carried off a 3-0 victory.
West Florence never let Ridge View on the board, but things got pretty close in the second set. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-17, 25-23, 25-15.
West Florence can attribute much of their success to Lexi Rogers, who had four digs and three aces, and Addison Pusser, who had four digs. The dominant performance gave Rogers a new career-high in aces.
West Florence kept the net locked down and finished the game with 38 blocks. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now had at least 24 blocks in three consecutive matchups.
Spring Valley's defeat dropped their record down to 5-16. As for West Florence, the win got them back to even at 8-8.
Spring Valley was able to grind out a solid victory over West Florence in their previous meeting back in August of 2019, winning 2-0. Will Spring Valley repeat their success, or does West Florence have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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