The Cocoa Beach Minutemen will face off against the Cocoa Tigers at 5:30 p.m. on Monday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Cocoa Beach has three straight victories, Cocoa has five straight losses), but none of that matters once you're on the court.
Last Thursday, Cocoa Beach narrowly escaped with a win as the squad sidled past Satellite 3-2.
Cocoa Beach took Satellite into a fifth set where they got it done with a five-point win. After all that action, the final score was 25-23, 22-25, 24-26, 25-15, 15-10.
Cocoa Beach relied on the efforts of Vittoria Lane, who had 18 digs and seven aces, and Ava Jimenez, who had 14 digs. The dominant performance gave Lane a new career-high in aces.
Cocoa Beach was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 12 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least 11 aces in three consecutive contests.
Meanwhile, Cocoa lost 3-0 to Space Coast on Thursday.
Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-9, 25-7, 25-13.
Cocoa Beach's victory bumped their record up to 10-3. As for Cocoa, their defeat dropped their record down to 1-8.
Cocoa Beach was able to grind out a solid win over Cocoa in their previous matchup back in August, winning 2-0. Will Cocoa Beach repeat their success, or does Cocoa have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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