Goose Creek Memorial has won four straight games at home, while Atascocita has won four straight on the road, but those streaks won't matter much on Tuesday. The Goose Creek Memorial Patriots will welcome the Atascocita Eagles at 6:30 p.m. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Last Tuesday, Goose Creek Memorial made easy work of Channelview and carried off a 3-0 win.
Goose Creek Memorial was especially dominant in the first set. The match finished with set scores of 25-8, 25-19, 25-17.
Goose Creek Memorial was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 13 aces. That's the most aces they've posted since back in September.
If Channelview wanted to avenge their loss from the last time they played Atascocita, they should've done a better job of containing Gracie Williams. Everything went Atascocita's way against Channelview on Friday as Atascocita made off with a 3-0 victory thanks in part to Williams, who had six digs and two aces. She is also on a roll when it comes to assists, as she's now posted 14 or more in the last 18 games she's played.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Atascocita was: they took every set by at least ten points. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-6, 25-15, 25-10.
Goose Creek Memorial is on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four contests, which provided a massive bump to their 20-17 record this season. As for Atascocita, their win bumped their record up to 24-11.
Here's a few offensive stats to keep an eye on ahead of Tuesday's match: Goose Creek Memorial has really dialed in their serving this season, having averaged 7.9 aces per game. However, it's not like Atascocita struggles in that department as they've been averaging 7.5. Given these competing strengths, it'll be interesting to see how their clash plays out.
Goose Creek Memorial might still be hurting after the 3-0 defeat they got from Atascocita when the teams last played on October 4th. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Atascocita's Emily Olano, who had 19 digs. Now that Goose Creek Memorial knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.
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