Santa Fe hasn't had much luck against La Cueva recently, but that could start to change on Thursday. The Santa Fe Demons will venture away from home to challenge the La Cueva Bears at 6:00 p.m. Both teams are coming into the match red-hot, with Santa Fe sitting on six straight wins and La Cueva on five.
Santa Fe will bounce into Thursday's game after beating Eldorado, who they had gone 0-4 against in their four prior meetings. Santa Fe blew past Eldorado 3-0 on Tuesday.
Santa Fe never let Eldorado on the board, but things got pretty close in the third set. The match finished with set scores of 25-9, 25-12, 25-22.
Meanwhile, La Cueva made easy work of Capital on Tuesday and carried off a 3-0 victory.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant La Cueva was: they took every set by at least 12 points. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-12, 25-13, 25-10.
La Cueva couldn't miss and finished the game having scored on 40.8% of their attack attempts. The last time their hitting percentage was this high was back in November of 2023.
Santa Fe's win was their tenth straight at home dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 14-1. As for La Cueva, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won seven of their last eight matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 13-3 record this season.
Santa Fe came up short against La Cueva in their previous matchup back in October of 2017, falling 3-1. Can Santa Fe avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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