The Americas Trail Blazers are taking a road trip to face off against the Horizon Scorpions at 6:35 p.m. on Tuesday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Americas has six straight victories, Horizon has three straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the court.
Last Friday, everything went Americas' way against Bel Air as Americas made off with a 3-0 win.
The final score came out to 25-12, 25-16, 25-21.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Americas to victory, but perhaps none more so than Nancy Lopez, who had 12 digs and five aces. The dominant performance gave Lopez a new career-high in aces. Zoe Zuniga was another key player, getting 16 digs.
Americas was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 15 aces. That's a new trend for them: they were averaging 0 aces per game earlier this season, but in their last five matchups they've averaged 11.
Meanwhile, Horizon didn't have quite enough to beat El Dorado on Friday and fell 3-2.
Horizon took El Dorado into a fifth set but they suffered a heartbreaking two-point loss. The match finished with set scores of 22-25, 25-16, 17-25, 31-29, 15-13.
Americas' victory was their sixth straight at home dating back to last season, which pushed their record up to 27-4. As for Horizon, they now have a losing record at 10-11.
Americas was able to grind out a solid win over Horizon in their previous meeting back in August of 2019, winning 3-1. Does Americas have another victory up their sleeve, or will Horizon turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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