The Pleasant Valley Bears will head out on the road to take on the Stroudsburg Mountaineers at 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Pleasant Valley has four straight wins, Stroudsburg has three straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the court.
On Monday, Pleasant Valley got the win against East Stroudsburg North by a conclusive 3-0.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Pleasant Valley was: they took every set by at least ten points. The match finished with set scores of 25-10, 25-10, 25-15.
Pleasant Valley's success was spearheaded by the efforts of Mya Williams, who had three digs and three aces, and Ali Snyder, who had four kills, four digs, and three aces. Those three aces gave Williams a new career-high.
She wasn't the only good server: Pleasant Valley was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 19 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least ten aces in five consecutive games.
Meanwhile, Stroudsburg came up short against Jim Thorpe on Tuesday and fell 3-1.
Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-14, 23-25, 25-19, 25-18.
Pleasant Valley pushed their record up to 14-9-1 with the victory, which was their third straight at home. As for Stroudsburg, they now have a losing record at 7-8.
Pleasant Valley came up short against Stroudsburg in their previous meeting back in September, falling 3-1. Can Pleasant Valley avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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