Queen Creek is ranked highly in their home state and on Saturday they took on another highly ranked team in the form of Fossil Ridge. The Queen Creek Bulldogs had just enough and edged the Fossil Ridge SaberCats out 2-1. The Bulldogs have seen this before: they got the W the last time they saw the SaberCats, too.
Queen Creek had a slow start but a hot finish: after dropping the first set, they turned around to win the next two. The match finished with set scores of 21-25, 25-12, 15-12.
Queen Creek can attribute much of their success to Mckenna Kehoe, who had six digs, four aces, and a kill. That's the most aces Kehoe has posted since back in August.
Queen Creek was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 11 aces. That's the most aces they've managed all season.
When it comes to explaining why Fossil Ridge lost, don't look at Trinity Burchett. Despite the final result, she had seven digs and two aces.
The win made it two in a row for Queen Creek and bumps their season record up to 18-12. As for Fossil Ridge, they are on a three-game losing streak that has dropped them down to 12-4.
Queen Creek will have some time to savor their victory since their next game is a little ways off: they'll take on Desert Ridge at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday. Fossil Ridge has already played their next contest, a 3-0 win against Rocky Mountain on the 8th.
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