The University Hawks will take on the Steubenville Big Red in a tournament on Thursday. The two teams have had a bumpy ride up to this point with three consecutive losses for University and four for Steubenville.
University is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of West Virginia's top teams: John Marshall, who was ranked ninth at the time (University was ranked 13th). The Hawks fell just short of the Monarchs by a score of 3-2 on Tuesday.
University wouldn't go down easily and took John Marshall into a fifth set but they suffered a heartbreaking six-point loss. The match finished with set scores of 25-19, 25-15, 27-29, 18-25, 15-9.
Meanwhile, Steubenville lost 3-0 to Morgantown on Tuesday.
The final score came out to 25-9, 25-8, 25-12.
Steubenville's loss dropped their record down to 11-10. As for University, their defeat dropped their record down to 20-8-2.
Everything went University's way against Steubenville when the teams last played back in October of 2019, as University made off with a 3-0 win. Do the Hawks have another victory up their sleeve, or will the Big Red turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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