The Hillcrest Knights will square off against the Shelley Russets at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. The two teams each escaped (but just barely!) with wins against their previous opponents.
Hillcrest is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Idaho's top teams: Bonneville, who was ranked 14th at the time (Hillcrest was ranked tenth). The Knights won by a set and slipped past the Bees 3-2. Give some credit to the fans of both teams: the last four times they've met, the home team has come away the winner.
The match was a true back-and-forth as no team won consecutive sets, but in the end it was Hillcrest who won the one that mattered. The final score came out to 25-19, 24-26, 27-25, 24-26, 17-15.
Meanwhile, Shelley hadn't done well against Idaho Falls recently (they were 0-9 in their previous nine matchups), but they didn't let the past get in their way on Tuesday. The Russets skirted past the Tigers 3-2. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Russets.
Shelley had a slow start but a hot finish: after dropping the first two sets, they turned around to win the next three. The match finished with set scores of 22-25, 13-25, 25-13, 25-18, 15-13.
Hillcrest's win bumped their record up to 18-4. As for Shelley, their victory bumped their record up to an identical 18-4.
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