After both having extra time off, the Wessington Springs Spartans and the DeSmet Bulldogs will dust off their jerseys to challenge one another at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday.
Wessington Springs and Hitchcock-Tulare met for a duel on Tuesday where Wessington Springs had to take the L. Wessington Springs lost 3-0 to Hitchcock-Tulare. The Spartans have now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
While Wessington Springs was kept off the board, it wasn't for a lack of trying: they cut into Hitchcock-Tulare's winning margin in every set. The match finished with set scores of 25-8, 25-9, 25-15.
Meanwhile, DeSmet hadn't done well against Arlington recently (they were 2-7 in their previous nine matchups), but they didn't let the past get in their way on Tuesday. DeSmet won by a set and slipped past Arlington 3-2. Winning may never get old, but the Bulldogs sure are getting used to it with their third in a row.
DeSmet was actually outscored in aggregate across those five sets (103-101), but they still managed to win. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-16, 23-25, 12-25, 26-24, 15-13.
Wessington Springs' defeat dropped their record down to 14-18. As for DeSmet, they are on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six contests, which provided a nice bump to their 15-12 record this season.
Wessington Springs came up short against DeSmet when the teams last played back in November of 2019, falling 3-1. Can Wessington Springs avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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