Mater Dei has gone 9-1 against Santa Margarita recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Tuesday. The Mater Dei Monarchs will look to defend their home court against the Santa Margarita Eagles at 6:00 a.m. Mater Dei will be looking to keep their 19-game home win streak dating back to last season alive.
Mater Dei is headed into the game having just posted their biggest victory since September 17th on Tuesday. They put the hurt on JSerra Catholic with a sharp 3-0 win.
Mater Dei never let JSerra Catholic on the board, but things got pretty close in the second set. The match finished with set scores of 25-18, 25-22, 25-9.
Layli Ostovar and Sam Capinpin were among the main playmakers for Mater Dei as the former had 15 kills, 12 digs, and two aces and the latter had six digs and four aces. That's the most aces Capinpin has posted since back in August.
Meanwhile, Santa Margarita is ranked highly in their home state and on Friday they took on another highly ranked team in the form of Casteel. Santa Margarita took a 2-0 hit to the loss column at the hands of Casteel. Considering the last time the Eagles couldn't score was back in August, the team can't take the result too hard.
Santa Margarita was not held off the scoreboard, but that almost wasn't the case: they kept the second set very close. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-20, 25-22.
Mater Dei's victory bumped their record up to 23-3. As for Santa Margarita, their loss dropped their record down to 15-7.
Mater Dei beat Santa Margarita 3-1 in their previous matchup last Thursday. Does Mater Dei have another victory up their sleeve, or will Santa Margarita turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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