After starting their season with eight straight games on the road, Fort Bragg is finally coming home. They will welcome the Middletown Mustangs at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both come into the contest bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
On Tuesday, Fort Bragg was able to grind out a solid victory over Clear Lake, taking the game 3-1.
Fort Bragg had a slow start but a hot finish: after dropping the first first set, they turned around to win the next three. After all that action, the final score was 22-25, 25-21, 25-19, 25-18.
Meanwhile, everything went Middletown's way against Lower Lake on Tuesday as Middletown made off with a 3-0 win.
The 3-0 doesn't show just how dominant Middletown was: they took every set by at least eight points. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-17, 25-17, 25-9.
Middletown can attribute much of their success to Carly Johnson, who had eight kills and six aces.
She wasn't the only good server: Middletown was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 26 aces. That's the most aces they've posted since back in October of 2023.
Fort Bragg's victory bumped their record up to 6-2. As for Middletown, their win bumped their record up to 12-6.
Fort Bragg was able to grind out a solid victory over Middletown when the teams last played back in September of 2023, winning 3-1. Will Fort Bragg repeat their success, or does Middletown have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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