Mellen is 0-10 against Mercer since September of 2018 but things could change on Thursday. The Mellen Granite Diggers will head out to take on the Mercer Tigers at 6:00 p.m. Each of these teams will be fighting to keep a win streak alive as Mellen comes in on nine and Mercer on seven.
Last Saturday, Mellen sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 2-1 victory over Chequamegon.
It was an exciting match in which no team won back-to-back sets, but at the end of the day Mellen got the one that really mattered. The match finished with set scores of 25-22, 23-25, 15-8.
Meanwhile, everything went Mercer's way against Lac Courte Oreilles on Tuesday as Mercer made off with a 3-0 win.
While Mercer might've won, it sure wasn't easy: Lac Courte Oreilles scored at least 16 points in every set they played. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-7, 25-12, 25-16.
Mellen is on a roll lately: they've won 11 of their last 12 contests, which provided a massive bump to their 12-9 record this season. As for Mercer, their victory was their seventh straight on the road, which pushed their record up to 24-8.
Mellen suffered a grim 3-0 defeat to Mercer in their previous meeting back in September. Can Mellen avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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