Lincoln-Way East is on a four-game streak of home wins, while Homewood-Flossmoor is on a seven-game streak of away wins: one of those streaks is about to end. The Lincoln-Way East Griffins will take on the Homewood-Flossmoor Vikings at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Both come into the matchup bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Last Saturday, Lincoln-Way East had just enough and edged Providence Catholic out 2-1.
Lincoln-Way East had a slow start but a hot finish: after dropping the first set, they turned around to win the next two. The match finished with set scores of 24-26, 25-23, 15-7.
Lincoln-Way East relied on the efforts of Brooklyn Ritter, who had 12 digs and 13 assists, and Casey Twietmeyer, who had six digs and two aces. Twietmeyer has been hot recently, having posted two or more aces the last three times she's played.
Meanwhile, Homewood-Flossmoor and Lincoln-Way West met for a duel on Thursday where Homewood-Flossmoor prevailed. Homewood-Flossmoor came out on top against Lincoln-Way West by a score of 2-0.
Homewood-Flossmoor never let Lincoln-Way West on the board, but things got pretty close in the first set. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-22, 25-19.
Lincoln-Way East has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 19 of their last 21 matches, which provided a nice bump to their 29-5 record this season. As for Homewood-Flossmoor, their win bumped their record up to 25-6.
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