Fleming Island and Middleburg are an even 5-5 against one another since September of 2015, but not for long. The Fleming Island Golden Eagles will take on the Middleburg Broncos at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. Each of these teams will be fighting to keep a win streak alive as Fleming Island comes in on nine and Middleburg on six.
Fleming Island is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Tuesday. They blew past Orange Park 3-0.
The match finished with set scores of 25-13, 25-20, 25-15.
Bailey Montgomery was a one-man wrecking crew for Fleming Island as she had 24 digs and two aces. Montgomery is on a roll when it comes to digs, as she's now had 24 or more in the last five games she's played dating back to last season. The team also got some help courtesy of Alana Santiago, who had five digs and 18 assists.
Fleming Island was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 15 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least nine aces in nine consecutive contests.
Meanwhile, Middleburg made easy work of Ridgeview on Tuesday and carried off a 3-0 win.
Middleburg walked away with the victory (and looked especially good in the first set). The final score came out to 25-15, 25-18, 25-19.
Fleming Island is on a roll lately: they've won ten of their last 11 matches, which provided a nice bump to their 17-6 record this season. As for Middleburg, their win bumped their record up to 20-4.
Fleming Island came up short against Middleburg when the teams last played back in September, falling 3-1. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Middleburg's Morgan Padgett, who had 32 digs. Now that Fleming Island knows the damage she can cause, will they be able to stop her this time? There's only one way to find out.
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