After both having extra time off, the Myers Park Mustangs and the Ballantyne Ridge Wolves will dust off their jerseys to challenge one another at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday. Ballantyne Ridge took a loss in their last match and will be looking to turn the tables on Myers Park, who comes in off a win.
Last Thursday, everything went Myers Park's way against Berry as Myers Park made off with a 3-0 victory.
The 3-0 doesn't show just how dominant Myers Park was: they took every set by at least eight points. After all that action, the final score was 25-7, 25-9, 25-17.
Lia Skufca went supernova for Myers Park, getting six aces and 26 assists. The dominant performance gave Skufca a new career-high in aces.
Myers Park was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 28 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least ten aces in nine consecutive games.
Meanwhile, Ballantyne Ridge came up short against South Mecklenburg on Thursday, falling 3-0. The Wolves have now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
The final score came out to 25-21, 25-14, 25-20.
Myers Park is on a roll lately: they've won eight of their last nine contests, which provided a massive bump to their 8-6 record this season. As for Ballantyne Ridge, their loss dropped their record down to 3-8.
Myers Park was able to grind out a solid win over Ballantyne Ridge when the teams last played back in August, winning 3-1. Does Myers Park have another victory up their sleeve, or will Ballantyne Ridge turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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