The Shady Spring Tigers will take on the Morgantown Mohigans at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday. The two teams each escaped (but just barely!) with wins against their previous opponents.
Shady Spring is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of West Virginia's top teams: James Monroe, who was ranked 12th in their home state at the time (Shady Spring was ranked 15th). Shady Spring had just enough and edged James Monroe out 3-2 on Thursday. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Tigers.
Shady Spring wouldn't go down easily and took James Monroe into a fifth set where they got it done with a three-point win. The match finished with set scores of 23-25, 25-22, 16-25, 25-18, 15-12.
Shady Spring found their leader in freshman Bryanna Shrewsberry, who had 11 digs.
Meanwhile, Morgantown narrowly escaped with a win as the team sidled past Oak Glen 2-1.
Morgantown got the W, but it wasn't easy, at least in the third set. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 20-25, 25-9, 31-29.
Shady Spring's victory was their ninth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 26-21-1. As for Morgantown, they have been performing well recently as they've won four of their last five contests, which provided a nice bump to their 33-9 record this season.
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