Strongsville has enjoyed a three-game homestand but will soon have to dust off their road jerseys. They will venture away from home to take on the Mentor Cardinals at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both come into the game bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Last Tuesday, Strongsville sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 3-2 win over GlenOak.
The match was a true back-and-forth as no team won consecutive sets, but in the end it was Strongsville who won the one that mattered. The match finished with set scores of 26-24, 23-25, 25-11, 22-25, 15-11.
Strongsville was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 18 aces. That's the most aces they've posted since back in September.
Meanwhile, it was a proper cat-fight when Mentor challenged Euclid on Tuesday. Mentor put the hurt on Euclid with a sharp 3-0 victory. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Cardinals.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Mentor was: they took every set by at least 16 points. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-9, 25-5, 25-5.
Strongsville is on a roll lately: they've won seven of their last nine matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 15-7 record this season. As for Mentor, they pushed their record up to 17-6 with the win, which was their seventh straight at home.
Strongsville suffered a grim 3-0 defeat to Mentor when the teams last played on October 3rd. Can Strongsville avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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