Mentor has gone 8-2 against Strongsville recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Thursday. The Mentor Cardinals will stay at home for another game and welcome the Strongsville Mustangs at 5:00 p.m. Both come into the matchup bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
It was a proper cat-fight when Mentor challenged Euclid on Tuesday. Everything went Mentor's way against Euclid as Mentor made off with a 3-0 win.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Mentor was: they took every set by at least 16 points. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-9, 25-5, 25-5.
Meanwhile, Strongsville had already won two in a row and they went ahead and made it three on Tuesday. They skirted past the Golden Eagles 3-2.
The match was a true back-and-forth as no team won consecutive sets, but in the end it was Strongsville who won the one that mattered. The match finished with set scores of 26-24, 23-25, 25-11, 22-25, 15-11.
Strongsville was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 18 aces. That's the most aces they've posted since back in September.
Mentor's victory was their seventh straight at home, which pushed their record up to 17-6. As for Strongsville, they have been performing well recently as they've won seven of their last nine matches, which provided a nice bump to their 15-7 record this season.
Mentor took their win against Strongsville in their previous meeting on October 3rd by a conclusive 3-0. Will Mentor repeat their success, or does Strongsville have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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