Potomac School has enjoyed the comforts of home their last seven games, but now they'll head out on the road. They will square off against the Georgetown Day Mighty Hoppers at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Both are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Potomac School is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Virginia's top teams: Episcopal, who was ranked sixth in their home state at the time (Potomac School was ranked second). Potomac School blew past Episcopal 3-0 on Monday.
Potomac School never let Episcopal on the board, but things got pretty close in the third set. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-20, 25-14, 25-23.
Meanwhile, Georgetown Day put another one in the bag on Monday to keep their perfect season alive. They put the hurt on Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart with a sharp 3-0 victory.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Georgetown Day was: they took every set by at least 12 points. The match finished with set scores of 25-8, 25-10, 25-13.
Georgetown Day can attribute much of their success to Shiraz Benyoucef, who had 12 digs.
Georgetown Day couldn't miss and finished the game having scored on 43.8% of their attack attempts. The last time their hitting percentage was this high was back in September.
Potomac School has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won nine of their last ten games, which provided a nice bump to their 12-2 record this season. As for Georgetown Day, they pushed their record up to 21-0 with the win, which was their tenth straight at home dating back to last season.
Potomac School came up short against Georgetown Day in their previous meeting on October 8th, falling 3-1. A big factor in that loss was the dominant performance of Benyoucef, who had 23 digs. Now that Potomac School 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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