The Crooms Academy Panthers will venture away from home to take on the Olympia Titans at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday. Both come into the contest bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Crooms Academy proved they can win big two weeks ago (they won by three) and on Tuesday they proved they can win the close ones too. They won by a set and slipped past Colonial 3-2.
Crooms Academy was actually outscored in aggregate across those five sets (105-95), but they still managed to win. The final score came out to 14-25, 25-20, 25-23, 16-25, 15-12.
Meanwhile, Olympia got the win against Davenport on Wednesday by a conclusive 3-0.
Olympia never let Davenport on the board, but things got pretty close in the second set. The match finished with set scores of 25-17, 25-22, 25-18.
Crooms Academy better keep an eye on Matheys Carvalho Da Silva. He was instrumental in Olympia's win, getting 13 digs.
Olympia was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 11 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least five aces in four consecutive matchups.
Olympia's record is now 3-4. As for Crooms Academy, they have been performing well recently as they've won three of their last four games. That's provided a nice bump to their 4-3 record this season.
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