After three games on the road, Loyal is heading back home. They will host the Marathon Red Raiders at 7:15 p.m. on Thursday.
Last Saturday, Loyal didn't have quite enough to beat McDonell Central and fell 2-1.
Loyal took a 1-0 lead headed into the second set, but sadly they lost the next two. After all that action, the final score was 21-25, 25-19, 15-11.
Meanwhile, Marathon had just enough and edged Newman out 3-2 on Tuesday. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Red Raiders.
Marathon was actually outscored in aggregate across those five sets (104-100), but they still managed to win. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-21, 25-21, 19-25, 16-25, 15-12.
Loyal's defeat dropped their record down to 9-2. As for Marathon, their win was their sixth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 18-5.
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