Big Horn is 9-1 against Tongue River since September of 2021, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Thursday. The Big Horn Rams have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the Tongue River Eagles at 7:00 p.m. After both made easy work of their previous opponents, one won't be so lucky on Thursday.
Big Horn is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Wyoming's top teams: Natrona County, who was ranked 20th in their home state at the time (Big Horn was ranked 11th). Everything went Big Horn's way against Natrona County on Thursday as Big Horn made off with a 3-0 win.
Big Horn never let Natrona County on the board, but things got pretty close in the third set. The match finished with set scores of 25-17, 25-20, 25-23.
Big Horn's success was spearheaded by the efforts of Mckena Bales, who had nine digs, and Leah Phillips, who had five kills, four digs, and two aces. What's more, Bales also racked up no blocks, the mostshe's had in her last three games.
Big Horn was lethal from the service line and finished the game with ten aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least eight aces in five consecutive contests.
Meanwhile, Tongue River had already won three in a row and they went ahead and made it four on Saturday. They blew past the Wolves 3-0.
Tongue River's not only won, but also showed off some consistency: keeping Moorcroft between 13 and 16 points across their sets. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-13, 25-15, 25-16.
Big Horn pushed their record up to 21-9 with the victory, which was their 15th straight at home dating back to last season. As for Tongue River, they are on a roll lately: they've won 14 of their last 15 matches, which provided a nice bump to their 19-2-4 record this season.
Big Horn beat Tongue River 3-1 in their previous meeting back in September. Will Big Horn repeat their success, or does Tongue River have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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