After both having extra time off, the Northfield Nighthawks and the Mountain Vista Golden Eagles will shake off the cobwebs and face off against one another at 12:00 p.m. on Saturday. Both come into the match bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Northfield can't be too worried about heading out to take on Mountain Vista: they just beat Rangeview at home, who had been dominant on their own court up to that point. Northfield had just enough and edged Rangeview out 3-2 last Tuesday.
If you add up the scores from across all five sets (110-107) Northfield actually scored fewer points, but in the end it didn't matter. The match finished with set scores of 16-25, 25-21, 19-25, 32-30, 15-9.
Meanwhile, Mountain Vista faced Denver South in a battle between two of the state's top teams on Saturday. Mountain Vista came out on top against Denver South by a score of 3-1. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Golden Eagles.
Mountain Vista had a slow start but a hot finish: after dropping the first set, they turned around to win the next three. The final score came out to 22-25, 25-15, 25-19, 25-23.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Mountain Vista to victory, but perhaps none more so than Joey Laterza, who had 20 digs. Laterza has been hot for a while, having posted 12 or more digs the last 11 times she's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Anna Morella, who had 12 digs.
Mountain Vista kept the net locked down and finished the game with 12 blocks. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now had at least six blocks in 12 consecutive contests.
Mountain Vista's record is now 19-4. As for Northfield, they are on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six matchups, which provided a massive bump to their 14-9 record this season.
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