Fairfield hasn't had much luck against NorthWood recently, but that could start to change on Saturday. The Fairfield Falcons will square off against the NorthWood Panthers at 1:30 p.m.
Last Saturday, Fairfield didn't have quite enough to beat Lakeland and fell 2-1. The Falcons have now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
Fairfield actually scored more points across those three sets (66-61), but sadly they still had to settle for second. The match finished with set scores of 16-25, 30-28, 15-13.
Meanwhile, with a playoff game on the line, NorthWood rose to the challenge on Thursday. Everything went their way against the Vikings as they made off with a 3-0 victory. The win was familiar territory for the Panthers who have now won eight contests in a row.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant NorthWood was: they took every set by at least ten points. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-8, 25-8, 25-15.
NorthWood was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 20 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least six aces in five consecutive matches.
Fairfield's loss dropped their record down to 10-17. As for NorthWood, they are on a roll lately: they've won nine of their last ten games, which provided a nice bump to their 26-6 record this season.
Fairfield suffered a grim 3-0 defeat to NorthWood in their previous matchup back in August. Can Fairfield avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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