The Enterprise Wildcats will take on the Hoover Buccaneers at 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday. Enterprise is coming into the match hot, having won their last six games.
Enterprise is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Alabama's top teams: Bayside Academy, who was ranked eighth in their home state at the time (Enterprise was ranked 24th). Enterprise had just enough and edged Bayside Academy out 3-2.
Enterprise was actually outscored in aggregate across those five sets (100-93), but they still managed to win. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 17-25, 25-17, 11-25, 25-23, 15-10.
Meanwhile, it's hard to turn regular season success into postseason wins, a fact Hoover can now relate to. They lost 3-0 to the Patriots on Thursday. For those keeping track at home, that's the biggest defeat the Buccaneers have suffered since October 10th.
While Hoover had to settle for second, they sure made a game of it, scoring at least 21 points in every set they played. The match finished with set scores of 25-21, 25-22, 25-22.
Enterprise is on a roll lately: they've won 11 of their last 12 contests, which provided a nice bump to their 30-9 record this season. As for Hoover, with the loss, they broke their four-game winning streak and moved their record to 39-10.
Enterprise beat Hoover 2-0 in their previous matchup back in September of 2023. Will Enterprise repeat their success, or does Hoover have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps