The Pine Lake Prep Pride will take on the Lincolnton Wolves at 6:00 p.m. on Tuesday.
Pine Lake Prep is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of North Carolina's top teams: Community School of Davidson, who was ranked 19th at the time (Pine Lake Prep was ranked 23rd). The Pride fell just short of the Spartans by a score of 3-2 on Tuesday. While the Pride didn't get the win, they did start the game off strong, beating the Spartans 25-18 in the first set.
Pine Lake Prep actually scored more points across those five sets (102-100), but sadly they still had to settle for second. The match finished with set scores of 18-25, 25-22, 25-19, 17-25, 15-11.
Pine Lake Prep's loss came about despite a quality game from Kate Craver, who had 11 digs and four assists.
Meanwhile, it can be hard to translate regular season success to the playoffs, but Lincolnton had no problem doing just that on Saturday. They blew past the Wolfpack 3-0.
Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-20, 25-16, 25-16.
Lincolnton pushed their record up to 13-9 with the victory, which was their seventh straight at home. As for Pine Lake Prep, their defeat ended an eight-match streak of away wins and brought them to 16-4.
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