Park Hill South and Park Hill are an even 5-5 against one another since October of 2018, but not for long. The Park Hill South Panthers have the luxury of staying home for another game and will welcome the Park Hill Trojans at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday. The two teams each escaped (but just barely!) with wins against their previous opponents.
Park Hill South is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Missouri's top teams: Liberty, who was ranked sixth in their home state at the time (Park Hill South was ranked 21st). Park Hill South had just enough and edged Liberty out 3-2.
Park Hill South took Liberty into a fifth set where they got it done with a 15-point win. The match finished with set scores of 25-23, 25-21, 12-25, 18-25, 15-0.
Avery Demint was nothing short of spectacular: she had ten digs and four aces. That's the most aces she has posted in her last ten games.
Park Hill South was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 15 aces. That's a new trend for them: they were averaging 0 aces per game earlier this season, but in their last five matches they've averaged 6.5.
Meanwhile, Park Hill had just enough and edged Lee's Summit North out 3-2 on Monday.
It was an exciting match in which no team won back-to-back sets, but at the end of the day Park Hill got the one that really mattered. The match finished with set scores of 25-20, 19-25, 25-23, 17-25, 15-9.
Park Hill South pushed their record up to 21-7 with the win, which was their fourth straight at home. As for Park Hill, they are on a roll lately: they've won seven of their last nine matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 12-4 record this season.
Here's a few offensive stats to keep an eye on ahead of Thursday's contest: Park Hill South hasn't let much over the net this season, having averaged 4.8 blocks per game. It's a different story for Park Hill, though, as they've been averaging only 1.1. Given Park Hill South's sizable advantage in that area, Park Hill will need to find a way to close that gap.
Park Hill South skirted past Park Hill 3-2 when the teams last played back in September. Will Park Hill South repeat their success, or does Park Hill have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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