The Vermilion Sailors have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the Margaretta Polar Bears at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday. Vermilion will be strutting in after a win while Margaretta will be coming in after a loss.
On Tuesday, it was close, but Vermilion sidestepped Bellevue for a 3-2 victory.
Vermilion was actually outscored in aggregate across those five sets (109-103), but they still managed to win. After all that action, the final score was 21-25, 25-21, 14-25, 28-26, 15-12.
Vermilion's success was the result of a balanced attack that saw several players step up, but Delaney Russell led the charge by getting 13 digs. With that strong performance, Russell is now averaging an impressive 4.4 digs per game. The team also got some help courtesy of Haley Stepp, who had ten digs and three aces.
Stepp wasn't the only one working in the aces department: Vermilion was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 13 aces. That's the most aces they've posted since back in October of 2023.
Meanwhile, Margaretta was not able to break out of their rough patch on Monday as the team picked up their third straight defeat. They fell just short of Genoa Area by a score of 3-2.
Margaretta took Genoa Area into a fifth set but they suffered a heartbreaking three-point loss. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-21, 22-25, 22-25, 25-18, 15-12.
Vermilion's win bumped their record up to 5-7. As for Margaretta, their loss dropped their record down to 1-9.
Vermilion skirted past Margaretta 3-2 in their previous matchup back in October of 2023. Does Vermilion have another victory up their sleeve, or will Margaretta turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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