The Batesville Bulldogs will challenge the Warren Central Warriors at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Batesville has five straight wins, Warren Central has five straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the court.
Batesville can't be too worried about heading out to take on Warren Central: they just beat South Dearborn at home, who had been dominant on their own court up to that point. Batesville blew past South Dearborn 3-0 on Thursday.
A big factor in the win was Batesville's feisty defense: they held South Dearborn to fewer and fewer points set over set. The match finished with set scores of 25-23, 25-21, 25-11.
Ava Powner and Anya Richey were among the main playmakers for Batesville as the former had five digs and two aces and the latter had 13 digs. Powner is on a roll when it comes to aces, as she's now served two or more in the last three games she's played dating back to last season.
Batesville was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 12 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least six aces in seven consecutive contests.
Meanwhile, Warren Central didn't have quite enough to beat Ben Davis on Thursday and fell 3-2.
Warren Central actually scored more points across those five sets (105-100), but sadly they still had to settle for second. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-21, 25-21, 18-25, 17-25, 15-13.
Batesville has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won nine of their last ten games, which provided a nice bump to their 17-3 record this season. As for Warren Central, their loss dropped their record down to 3-12.
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