The Smith Valley Bulldogs will take on the Indian Springs Thunderbirds at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday. Smith Valley is coming into the game hot, having won their last 15 games.
Smith Valley is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Saturday. They blew past Coleville 3-0.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Smith Valley was: they took every set by at least 11 points. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-12, 25-12, 25-14.
Audrina Banta went supernova for Smith Valley, getting 13 digs, eight aces, and a kill. Those eight aces gave Banta a new career-high. Another player making a difference was Ruby DeChambeau, who had ten digs, five kills, and three aces.
Smith Valley was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 16 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least nine aces in five consecutive contests.
Meanwhile, Indian Springs lost 3-0 to Round Mountain on Saturday. The Thunderbirds have struggled against the Knights recently, as the game was their seventh consecutive lost matchup.
While Indian Springs was kept off the board, it wasn't for a lack of trying: they cut into Round Mountain's winning margin in every set. The match finished with set scores of 25-11, 25-12, 25-18.
Indian Springs' defeat dropped their record down to 13-11. As for Smith Valley, they are on a roll lately: they've won 16 of their last 18 matchups, which provided a massive bump to their 22-10 record this season.
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