Valley View has been on the road for two straight, but on Monday they'll finally head home. After both having extra time off, they and the Searcy Lions will dust off their jerseys to take on one another at 6:00 p.m.
Valley View is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Arkansas' top teams: Brookland, who was ranked fifth in their home state at the time (Valley View was ranked 19th). Valley View took a 2-0 hit to the loss column at the hands of Brookland on Saturday. The Blazers haven't had much luck with the Bearcats recently, as the team's come up short the last four times they've met.
Valley View was not held off the scoreboard, but that almost wasn't the case: they kept the first set very close. The match finished with set scores of 25-23, 25-14.
Meanwhile, Searcy can finally bid farewell to their nine-game losing streak thanks to their game on Tuesday. They walked away with a 3-1 win over Trumann.
Valley View's loss dropped their record down to 9-6-1. As for Searcy, their victory ended a four-game drought at home and bumped them up to 4-12-1.
Everything went Valley View's way against Searcy when the teams last played back in October of 2023, as Valley View made off with a 3-0 win. Will Valley View repeat their success, or does Searcy have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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