It's hard to turn regular season success into postseason wins, a fact Shepherd can now relate to. They fell just short of the St. Johns Redwings by a score of 3-2 on Thursday. The Bluejays' loss signaled the end of their seven-game winning streak.
In an exciting match in which no team claimed back-to-back wins, Shepherd sadly wound up on the wrong side. The match finished with set scores of 25-16, 15-25, 25-20, 24-26, 15-3.
St. Johns can attribute much of their success to Emersyn Sturgis, who had seven aces. The dominant performance gave Sturgis a new career-high in aces.
Shepherd's defeat ended a five-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 23-9-6. As for St. Johns, they are on a roll lately: they've won three of their last four games, which somehow still isn't as good as their 30-9-2 record this season.
As of now, neither Shepherd nor St. Johns have any future games scheduled.
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