After both having extra time off, the Heath Bulldogs and the Fredericktown Freddies will shake off the cobwebs and challenge one another at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday. Heath will be strutting in after a win while Fredericktown will be coming in after a defeat.
Heath will bounce into Saturday's matchup after beating Watkins Memorial, who they had gone 2-7 against in their nine prior meetings. Heath blew past Watkins Memorial 3-0 on Thursday. Winning may never get old, but the Bulldogs sure are getting used to it with their third in a row.
Heath's got stronger as the match went on, holding Watkins Memorial to fewer and fewer points set over set. The match finished with set scores of 26-24, 25-21, 25-20.
Meanwhile, after a string of seven wins, Fredericktown's good fortune finally ran out on Thursday. They fell 3-1 to Centerburg. The loss continues a trend for the Freddies in their matchups with the Trojans: they've now lost three in a row.
Fredericktown 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 23-25, 25-16, 25-19, 25-19.
Heath's victory bumped their record up to 12-9. As for Fredericktown, their defeat ended a five-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 17-5.
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