Cleveland is ranked highly in their home state and on Saturday they took on another highly ranked team in the form of Buchanan. The Cleveland Blue Raiders skirted past the Buchanan Bears 2-1.
Cleveland was actually outscored in aggregate across those three sets (66-61), but they still managed to win. After all that action, the final score was 11-25, 25-20, 25-21.
Cleveland found their leader in underclassman Ariyah Huffman, who had 13 digs. Those 13 digs set a new season-high mark for her.
Buchanan lost despite a true team effort on the offense, the best among them being Clara Garcia, who had 15 digs.
Cleveland's victory bumped their record up to 20-8. As for Buchanan, they are on a three-game losing streak that has dropped them down to 16-5.
Cleveland will welcome McMinn County at 6:15 p.m. on Tuesday. As for Buchanan, they are on the road again on Saturday to play Knoxville Catholic at 11:30 a.m. Buchanan is facing Knoxville Catholic at the right time seeing as Knoxville Catholic is stuck on a five-game losing streak.
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