The Berkeley Prep Buccaneers will face off against the King's Academy Lions at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday. Both teams are coming into the game red-hot, with Berkeley Prep sitting on six straight victories and King's Academy on 12.
Berkeley Prep is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Tuesday. They blew past Bishop Verot 3-0.
The win didn't come easy: Bishop Verot scored at least 16 points in every set. The match finished with set scores of 25-11, 25-13, 25-16.
Berkeley Prep's win was the result of several impressive offensive performances. One of the most notable came from Lily Hayes, who had 13 digs and two aces. The team also got some help courtesy of Luca Prest, who had five digs and two aces.
She wasn't the only good server: Berkeley Prep was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 17 aces. That's the most aces they've posted since the start of last season.
Meanwhile, it was a proper cat-fight when King's Academy took on Academy of the Holy Names on Tuesday. King's Academy walked away with a 3-1 victory over Academy of the Holy Names.
King's Academy 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 16-25, 25-20, 25-22, 25-15.
Berkeley Prep is on a roll lately: they've won 14 of their last 16 contests, which provided a nice bump to their 23-4 record this season. As for King's Academy, they pushed their record up to 18-5 with the win, which was their sixth straight at home.
Everything went Berkeley Prep's way against King's Academy when the teams last played back in November of 2017, as Berkeley Prep made off with a 3-0 victory. Will Berkeley Prep repeat their success, or does King's Academy have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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