Fort Loramie has won 18 straight games at home (dating back to last season), while Strasburg-Franklin has won 18 straight on the road, but those streaks won't matter much on Thursday. The Fort Loramie Redskins will challenge the Strasburg-Franklin Tigers at 2:00 p.m. Both come into the match bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Fort Loramie is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Saturday. Everything went their way against Jackson Center as Fort Loramie made off with a 3-0 win.
One reason for the win was Fort Loramie's just kept getting better, winning each set by more points than the last. The match finished with set scores of 25-19, 25-16, 25-13.
Meanwhile, Strasburg-Franklin sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 3-2 victory over Caldwell on Saturday.
If you add up the scores from across all five sets (96-93) Strasburg-Franklin actually scored fewer points, but in the end it didn't matter. The final score came out to 25-12, 25-21, 17-25, 11-25, 15-13.
Strasburg-Franklin can attribute much of their success to Rayelle Watkins, who had ten digs, and Lyla Wiggs, who had nine digs, a kill, and 45 assists. Wiggs has been hot for a while, having posted 17 or more assists the last 29 times she's played.
Fort Loramie's win bumped their record up to 26-1. As for Strasburg-Franklin, they are on a roll lately: they've won six of their last seven matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 20-6 record this season.
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