Princeton is 8-2 against Elk Creek since October of 2017, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Monday. The Princeton Eagles will welcome the Elk Creek Elks at 5:30 p.m. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Princeton has three straight wins, Elk Creek has eight straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the court.
Princeton will bounce into Monday's contest after beating Loyalton, who they had gone 1-8 against in their nine prior meetings. Princeton was the clear victor by a 3-0 margin over Loyalton on Wednesday.
While Princeton won a shutout, things came down to the wire in the third set they played. The match finished with set scores of 25-18, 25-15, 26-23.
Guadalupe Espinoza went supernova for Princeton, getting ten aces and five digs. Those ten aces gave Espinoza a new career-high. The team also got some help courtesy of Natalia Haro, who had six aces.
She wasn't the only good server: Princeton was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 23 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least eight aces in 13 consecutive matches.
Meanwhile, Elk Creek lost 3-0 to Loyalton on Friday.
Elk Creek was held off the scoreboard, but that almost wasn't the case: they kept the first set very close. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-23, 25-14, 25-16.
Princeton's victory was their sixth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 16-10. As for Elk Creek, their defeat dropped their record down to 0-8.
Everything went Princeton's way against Elk Creek when the teams last played back in September, as Princeton made off with a 3-0 win. Will Princeton repeat their success, or does Elk Creek have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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