Northport has gone 10-0 against Inchelium recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Tuesday. The Northport Mustangs will look to defend their home court against the Inchelium Hornets at 6:00 p.m. Both teams are coming into the match red-hot, with Northport sitting on six straight wins and Inchelium on five.
Last Thursday, Northport got the win against Columbia by a conclusive 3-0.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Northport was: they took every set by at least 16 points. The match finished with set scores of 25-9, 25-6, 25-9.
Kate Beardslee and Alexus Stark were among the main playmakers for Northport as the former had 13 kills, three blocks, and three aces and the latter had ten aces and five kills. Those ten aces gave Stark a new career-high. The team also got some help courtesy of Ella Sphuler, who had five aces, three digs, and a kill.
She wasn't the only good server: Northport was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 23 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least nine aces in ten consecutive matchups.
Meanwhile, everything went Inchelium's way against Cusick on Saturday as Inchelium made off with a 3-0 victory.
Northport pushed their record up to 8-2 with the win, which was their fifth straight on the road. As for Inchelium, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won eight of their last nine games, which provided a nice bump to their 9-3-1 record this season.
Northport came out on top in a nail-biter against Inchelium in their previous meeting back in September, sneaking past 3-2. Will Northport repeat their success, or does Inchelium have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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