After six games on the road, Panguitch is heading back home. They will host the Piute Thunderbirds at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both teams took a loss in their last game, so they'll have plenty of motivation to get the 'W'.
It was a proper cat-fight when Panguitch duked it out withPine View on Saturday. Panguitch fell 3-1 to Pine View.
The loss didn't mean the game wasn't competitive: Pine View scored at least 20 points in every set. The final score came out to 25-21, 18-25, 25-21, 25-20.
Defeat or not, Panguitch got some senior leadership from Addison Bailey and Kadee Harland. Bailey had 11 digs and four aces, while Harland had 11 digs and two aces. That's the most aces Bailey has posted in her last eight matches.
Even though they lost, Panguitch was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 11 aces. The team's really been improving in that area: they've now improved they're ace total in three consecutive contests.
Meanwhile, Piute was not able to break out of their rough patch on Wednesday as the team picked up their fourth straight loss. They fell just short of Valley by a score of 3-2.
In an exciting match in which no team claimed back-to-back wins, Piute sadly wound up on the wrong side. The match finished with set scores of 32-30, 21-25, 25-23, 16-25, 15-11.
Panguitch's defeat dropped their record down to 15-11. As for Piute, their loss dropped their record down to 5-12.
Panguitch beat Piute 3-1 in their previous matchup back in October of 2023. Will Panguitch repeat their success, or does Piute have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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