Grove City entered their tilt with Mercer on Saturday with five consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with six. They sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 2-1 victory over the Mercer Mustangs. This was a revenge match for the Eagles, as the team was forced to settle for a 3-2 defeat when these two played last Tuesday.
The match was a true back-and-forth as no team won consecutive sets, but in the end it was Grove City who won the one that mattered. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-21, 19-25, 15-9.
Grove City is on a roll lately: they've won 17 of their last 19 games, which provided a nice bump to their 21-4-1 record this season. As for Mercer, they moved to 12-4 with that loss, which also ended their four-game winning streak.
Grove City has already played their next contest, a 2-0 defeat against Sharpsville on the 12th. As for Mercer, they also didn't take long to hit the court again: they've already played their next matchup, a 3-0 win against Commodore Perry on the 14th.
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