The Lake Central Indians will take on the Benton Central Bison at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday.
Lake Central is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Indiana's top teams: Crown Point, who was ranked 13th in their home state at the time (Lake Central was ranked 22nd). Lake Central fell 3-1 to Crown Point on Thursday. The Indians' defeat signaled the end of their four-game winning streak.
Lake Central started the match hot and won the first set, but they struggled down the stretch and lost the last three. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 21-25, 26-24, 30-28, 25-23.
Meanwhile, Benton Central entered their tilt with Twin Lakes on Tuesday with five consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with six. They blew past the Indians 3-0.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Benton Central was: they took every set by at least ten points. The match finished with set scores of 25-10, 25-15, 25-12.
Lake Central's loss dropped their record down to 14-6. As for Benton Central, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won eight of their last nine games, which provided a nice bump to their 15-3 record this season.
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