The Cocoa Beach Minutemen will challenge the Edgewood Red Wolves at 5:30 p.m. on Monday. Cocoa Beach is looking to tack on another W to their three-game streak on the road.
Cocoa Beach is probably headed into the match with a chip on their shoulder considering Titusville just ended the team's five-game winning streak on Wednesday. They fell just short of the Terriers by a score of 3-2.
Cocoa Beach took Titusville into a fifth set but they suffered a heartbreaking 12-point loss. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 21-25, 25-19, 12-25, 25-22, 15-3.
Despite the loss, Cocoa Beach saw an underclassman step up: Taegan Paglialonga had eight digs and four aces. That's the most aces Paglialonga has posted in she last nine games.
Even though they lost, Cocoa Beach 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 11 aces in six consecutive contests.
Meanwhile, after a string of three wins, Edgewood's good fortune finally ran out on Wednesday. They took a 3-1 hit to the loss column at the hands of Merritt Island. The Red Wolves haven't had much luck with the Mustangs recently, as the team's come up short the last eight times they've met.
Edgewood started the match hot and won the first set, but they struggled down the stretch and lost the last three. The match finished with set scores of 21-25, 25-10, 25-15, 25-13.
Cocoa Beach's defeat ended a six-game streak of wins at home and dropped them to 11-3. As for Edgewood, their loss dropped their record down to 8-7.
Cocoa Beach suffered a grim 3-0 defeat to Edgewood when the teams last played back in October of 2023. Can Cocoa Beach avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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