The Ayersville Pilots will venture away from home to challenge the Hilltop Cadets at 6:00 p.m. on Wednesday. The two teams each escaped (but just barely!) with wins against their previous opponents.
Ayersville can't be too worried about heading out to take on Hilltop: they just beat Pettisville at home, who had been dominant on their own court up to that point. Ayersville won by a set and slipped past Pettisville 3-2. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Pilots.
Ayersville was staring down a 2-1 deficit headed into the fourth set, but they rallied to take the next two for the win. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 19-25, 25-15, 21-25, 25-22, 15-8.
Ayersville was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 13 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least six aces in four consecutive matchups.
Meanwhile, Hilltop had already won three in a row and they went ahead and made it four on Monday. They sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 3-2 win over the Bulldogs.
Hilltop took Edgerton into a fifth set where they got it done with a six-point win. The match finished with set scores of 20-25, 27-25, 25-18, 22-25, 15-9.
Ayersville has been performing well recently as they've won three of their last four matches, which provided a massive bump to their 11-13 record this season. As for Hilltop, their victory was their tenth straight at home, which pushed their record up to 21-3.
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