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| 04/11/24 - Away | 3-1 W |
| 05/10/23 - Away | 3-1 W |
| 04/24/23 - Home | 3-0 W |
| 05/11/22 - Home | 3-0 W |
| 04/25/22 - Away | 3-0 W |
| + 2 more games |
Joel Barlow has gone a perfect 7-0 against Kolbe-Cathedral recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Monday. The Falcons will face off against the Cougars at 6:00 p.m.
Joel Barlow is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Connecticut's top teams: Newtown, who was ranked 13th at the time (Joel Barlow was ranked ninth). The Falcons fell just short of the Nighthawks by a score of 3-2 on Thursday. Give some credit to the fans of both teams: the last four times they've met, the home team has come away the winner.
Joel Barlow wouldn't go down easily and took Newtown into a fifth set but they suffered a heartbreaking six-point loss. The final score came out to 23-25, 25-23, 25-22, 22-25, 15-9.
Meanwhile, Kolbe-Cathedral made easy work of Harding on Friday and carried off a 3-0 victory. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Cougars.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Kolbe-Cathedral was: they took every set by at least 12 points. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-10, 25-6, 25-13.
Joel Barlow better focus on containing Angel Gomez and Tristan Rodriguez-Vargas as the pair were huge in Kolbe-Cathedral's win. Gomez had 15 digs and two assists, while Rodriguez-Vargas had eight assists and three digs. Gomez is on a roll when it comes to digs, as he's now had ten or more in each of the last 25 games he's played dating back to last season.
The win got Kolbe-Cathedral back to even at 5-5. As for Joel Barlow, their defeat ended a three-game streak of away wins and brought them to 5-4.
Joel Barlow beat Kolbe-Cathedral 3-1 in their previous meeting back in April of 2024. Will the Falcons repeat their success, or do the Cougars have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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