After seven games on the road, Lexington is heading back home. They will welcome the Irmo Yellow Jackets at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. The last four games Lexington has played have been within one set, so don't be surprised if it's a close one.
Lexington is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of South Carolina's top teams: Nation Ford, who was ranked second in their home state at the time (Lexington was ranked fifth). Lexington fell just short of Nation Ford by a score of 2-1 on Saturday. The Wildcats haven't had much luck with the Falcons recently, as the team's come up short the last three times they've met.
The 2-1 score doesn't really reflect how close the match was: every set was decided by three points or less. After all that action, the final score was 25-27, 25-23, 17-15.
Meanwhile, Irmo didn't have quite enough to beat Mid-Carolina last Monday and fell 3-2.
Irmo took Mid-Carolina into a fifth set but they suffered a heartbreaking four-point loss. The final score came out to 25-20, 25-15, 25-27, 24-26, 15-11.
Lexington's loss dropped their record down to 13-5. As for Irmo, they now have a losing record at 2-3-2.
Everything went Lexington's way against Irmo when the teams last played back in September of 2017 as Lexington made off with a 3-0 victory. Does Lexington have another victory up their sleeve, or will Irmo turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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