It's hard to turn regular season success into postseason wins, a fact Althoff Catholic can now relate to. They took a 2-0 hit to the loss column at the hands of the Belleville East Lancers on Thursday. The defeat continues a trend for the Crusaders in their meetings with the Lancers: they've now lost five in a row.
Althoff Catholic was was forced to take the loss, but they sure made Belleville East work for it, especially in the first set. The match finished with set scores of 27-25, 25-17.
Kyle Johnson paced Althoff Catholic's offense, picking up six kills. Johnson got some help from Rhett Neville and his 20 assists.
Althoff Catholic's loss dropped their record down to 27-8. As for Belleville East, they are on a roll lately: they've won nine of their last ten games. That's provided a nice bump to their 26-7 record this season.
As of now, neither Althoff Catholic nor Belleville East have any future games scheduled.
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