Ursuline Academy is ranked highly in their home state and on Thursday they took on another highly ranked team in the form of Notre Dame Academy. The Ursuline Academy Lions had just enough and edged the Notre Dame Academy Pandas out 3-2. The win was nothing new for the Lions as they're now sitting on five straight.
Ursuline Academy was staring down a 2-1 deficit headed into the fourth set, but they rallied to take the next two for the win. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 17-25, 25-21, 24-26, 25-23, 15-10.
Addy Franz continued her habit of posting crazy stat lines, getting 18 digs, four kills, and 48 assists. She is on a roll when it comes to assists, as she's now posted 25 or more in the last 13 games she's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Rainey Weidman, who had 24 digs.
Despite the loss, Notre Dame Academy still got an impressive performance from Lacey Hostetler, who had 14 digs and three aces. That's the most aces Hostetler has posted since back in August.
Ursuline Academy has been performing well recently as they've won nine of their last 11 contests, which provided a nice bump to their 16-6 record this season. As for Notre Dame Academy, they moved to 25-3 with that defeat, which also ended their 16-game winning streak.
Ursuline Academy does not have any more games scheduled as of now. As for Notre Dame Academy, they will be playing in front of their home fans against Assumption at 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Assumption will be hoping to continue their three-game streak of scoring more sets each game than the last.
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