Evergreen Park waltzed into their matchup on Wednesday with nine straight wins... but they left with ten. They had just enough and edged the Shepard Astros out 2-1. That's more bragging rights for the Mustangs, who also won the pair's last head-to-head.
Evergreen Park had a slow start but a hot finish: after dropping the first set, they turned around to win the next two. The final score came out to 18-25, 25-12, 25-20.
Evergreen Park was lethal from the service line and finished the game with ten aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least five aces in ten consecutive contests.
Evergreen Park has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 13 of their last 14 matches, which provided a nice bump to their 21-4 record this season. As for Shepard, the loss snapped their losing streak at three games and leaves them with a 17-10 record.
Evergreen Park will welcome Oak Lawn at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday. After both having extra time off, Shepard and Reavis will dust off their jerseys to challenge one another at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday.
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