The Evergreen Park Mustangs will venture away from home to square off against the Shepard Astros at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday. The two teams each escaped (but just barely!) with wins against their previous opponents.
Evergreen Park is headed into the contest having just posted their closest victory since April 30th on Thursday. They came out on top in a nail-biter against Lemont, sneaking past 2-1.
The match was a true back-and-forth as no team won consecutive sets, but in the end it was Evergreen Park who won the one that mattered. The final score came out to 25-21, 19-25, 25-19.
Meanwhile, Shepard sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 2-1 win over Oak Forest on Thursday. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Astros.
It was an exciting match in which no team won back-to-back sets, but at the end of the day Shepard got the one that really mattered. The match finished with set scores of 25-19, 25-27, 25-18.
Evergreen Park better keep an eye on Darin Conners. He was instrumental in Shepard's win, getting ten digs and two assists. Those ten digs gave Conners a new career-high. Mikolaj Drag also deserves some recognition as he posted his first assist of the season.
Evergreen Park has been performing well recently as they've won four of their last five games. That's provided a nice bump to their 12-21 record this season. As for Shepard, their victory bumped their record up to 19-14.
Article generated by infoSentience based on data entered on MaxPreps
