The Mahanoy Area Golden Bears will take on the Tamaqua Blue Raiders at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Mahanoy Area has three straight wins, Tamaqua has three straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the court.
Last Tuesday, Mahanoy Area made easy work of Our Lady of Lourdes Regional and carried off a 3-0 victory.
While Mahanoy Area won a shutout, things came down to the wire in the third set they played. The final score came out to 25-12, 25-12, 27-25.
Mahanoy Area couldn't miss and finished the game having scored on 50.8% of their attack attempts. The team's really been improving in that area: they've now improved they're hitting percentage total in three consecutive matches.
Meanwhile, Tamaqua didn't have quite enough to beat Our Lady of Lourdes Regional back in September and fell 3-2.
Mahanoy Area is on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 14-5 record this season. As for Tamaqua, their defeat dropped their record down to 1-7.
Everything went Mahanoy Area's way against Tamaqua when the teams last played back in September, as Mahanoy Area made off with a 3-0 win. Will Mahanoy Area repeat their success, or does Tamaqua have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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