The Dunlap Eagles will venture away from home to take on the East Peoria Raiders at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday.
Dunlap is probably headed into the match with a chip on their shoulder considering Peoria Notre Dame just ended the team's four-game winning streak on Monday. They fell just short of the Irish by a score of 2-1.
In an exciting match in which no team claimed back-to-back wins, Dunlap sadly wound up on the wrong side. The match finished with set scores of 25-19, 25-27, 25-19.
While East Peoria didn't have the best season last year (they finished 13-21), it's starting to look like those struggles are a thing of the past. They walked away with a 2-0 win over Canton on Thursday. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Raiders.
Not only was the match a shutout, it was a big one: East Peoria took both sets by at least ten points. The final score came out to 25-15, 25-15.
The defeat was their first on the road , dropping their record down to 13-4. As for East Peoria, their victory bumped their record up to 8-3.
Dunlap was able to grind out a solid win over East Peoria in their previous matchup back in October of 2024, winning 2-0. Will the Eagles repeat their success, or do the Raiders have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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