After having lost a blowout in their previous game against North Valley Christian Academy, Mountainside was happy to have turned things around on Friday. They came out on top against the Madison Highland Prep Heat by a score of 3-1. For the Wolves, this counts as revenge for the 3-1 defeat the Heat walked away with the last time they faced one another back in August of 2023.
Mountainside was actually outscored in aggregate across those four sets (94-92), but they still managed to win. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-22, 16-25, 25-23, 26-24.
Mountainside was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 13 aces. That's a new trend for them: they were averaging 0 aces per game earlier this season, but in their last five games they've averaged 14.8.
Mountainside's victory bumped their record up to 8-4. As for Madison Highland Prep, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 9-8.
Mountainside will have a chance to go back-to-back against Madison Highland Prep: the pair's next game is a rematch scheduled at 7:30 p.m. on Monday.
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