The Memorial Red Devils will square off against the McKinley Trojans at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Memorial will be strutting in after a win while McKinley will be coming in after a defeat.
Last Monday, Memorial sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 3-2 victory over Cardinal Mooney.
If you add up the scores from across all five sets (116-110) Memorial actually scored fewer points, but in the end it didn't matter. The match finished with set scores of 28-26, 15-25, 25-27, 27-25, 15-13.
Meanwhile, McKinley was not able to break out of their rough patch on Tuesday as the team picked up their 19th straight loss dating back to last season. They lost 3-0 to Waterloo.
McKinley was held off the scoreboard, but that almost wasn't the case: they kept the second set very close. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-11, 25-22, 25-11.
Memorial has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won nine of their last ten matchups, which provided a massive bump to their 12-8 record this season. As for McKinley, their defeat dropped their record down to 0-18.
Everything went Memorial's way against McKinley when the teams last played back in September, as Memorial made off with a 3-0 win. The rematch might be a little tougher for Memorial since the squad won't have the home-court advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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