The Yorktown Wildcats are taking a road trip to challenge the Schulenburg Shorthorns at 4:00 p.m. on Friday.
Yorktown is probably headed into the game with a chip on their shoulder considering Falls City just ended the team's four-game winning streak on Tuesday. They lost 3-0 to the Beavers.
Yorktown was not held off the scoreboard, but that almost wasn't the case: they kept the first set very close. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-23, 25-16, 25-14.
Meanwhile, Schulenburg waltzed into their match on Tuesday with two straight wins... but they left with three. They walked away with a 3-1 victory over the Comanches.
Schulenburg had a slow start but a hot finish: after dropping the first set, they turned around to win the next three. The match finished with set scores of 23-25, 25-12, 25-8, 25-19.
Schulenburg's win was a true team effort, with many players turning in solid performances. Perhaps the best among them was Michaela Kollmann, who had 21 digs. Kollmann is on a roll when it comes to digs, as she's now had 12 or more in the last ten games she's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Avery Helms, who had seven digs and five aces.
She wasn't the only good server: Schulenburg was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 16 aces. That's the most aces they've posted since back in September of 2023.
Yorktown's loss dropped their record down to 15-10. As for Schulenburg, their victory was their fifth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 22-9.
Yorktown might still be hurting after the 3-0 defeat they got from Schulenburg when the teams last played back in November of 2015. Can Yorktown avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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