The Lincoln Railsplitters are on the road again on Thursday to play the Bloomington Purple Raiders at 7:00 p.m. Bloomington took a loss in their last contest and will be looking to turn the tables on Lincoln, who comes in off a win.
On Tuesday, Lincoln beat MacArthur 2-0.
The 2-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Lincoln was: they took both sets by at least 11 points. The match finished with set scores of 25-14, 25-10.
Multiple players turned in solid performances to lead Lincoln to victory, but perhaps none more so than Peyton Sasse, who had seven kills, four aces, and three digs. Sasse is on a roll when it comes to kills, as she's now had five or more in the last 28 games she's played dating back to last season. The team also got some help courtesy of Jayden Behrends, who had five aces and four kills.
She wasn't the only good server: Lincoln was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 17 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least five aces in seven consecutive games.
Meanwhile, Bloomington didn't have quite enough to beat Peoria Notre Dame on Thursday and fell 2-1. The Purple Raiders have now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
In an exciting match in which no team claimed back-to-back wins, Bloomington sadly wound up on the wrong side. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-22, 18-25, 25-15.
Lincoln's win was their third straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 17-13. As for Bloomington, their loss dropped their record down to 8-20.
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