Ware Shoals has been on the road for three straight, but on Thursday they'll finally head home. They will take on the Thornwell Saints at 5:30 p.m.
Ware Shoals lost 3-0 to Dixie back in September.
The match finished with set scores of 25-15, 25-11, 25-18.
Meanwhile, Thornwell narrowly escaped with a victory as the team sidled past GREEN Upstate 3-2. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Saints.
If you add up the scores from across all five sets (103-94) Thornwell actually scored fewer points, but in the end it didn't matter. The final score came out to 9-25, 20-25, 25-23, 25-22, 15-8.
Thornwell was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 17 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least six aces in 15 consecutive matches.
Ware Shoals dropped their record down to 0-5 with the loss, which was their seventh straight on the road dating back to last season. As for Thornwell, their win bumped their record up to 8-9-1.
Ware Shoals suffered a grim 3-0 defeat to Thornwell in their previous meeting back in September. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Thornwell's Karleigh Porter, who had 15 aces and ten kills. Now that Ware Shoals knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.
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