West Essex entered their tilt with West Orange on Thursday with four consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with five. They narrowly escaped with a win as the squad sidled past the West Orange Mountaineers 2-1. That's more bragging rights for the Knights, who also won the pair's last head-to-head.
It was an exciting match in which no team won back-to-back sets, but at the end of the day West Essex got the one that really mattered. The final score came out to 25-23, 19-25, 25-19.
West Essex is on a roll lately: they've won eight of their last nine matches, which provided a nice bump to their 10-3 record this season. As for West Orange, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 6-9.
Both teams are looking forward to the support of their home crowds in their upcoming games. West Essex will welcome Mount St. Dominic Academy at 4:00 p.m. on Monday. As for West Orange, they will play host again on Monday to welcome St. Thomas Aquinas, where the match is scheduled at 5:30 p.m. West Orange is facing St. Thomas Aquinas at the right time seeing as St. Thomas Aquinas is stuck on a three-game losing streak.
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