The Thousand Oaks Lancers are taking a road trip to face off against the Newbury Park Panthers at 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday.
Thousand Oaks will head out to face Newbury Park after giving up their first home loss of the season on Thursday. The Lancers fell just short of Oaks Christian by a score of 3-2. Surprisingly, this marked the Lancers' fifth straight game in which the away team has come away the victor.
Thousand Oaks wouldn't go down easily and took Oaks Christian into a fifth set but they suffered a heartbreaking seven-point loss. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 20-25, 25-20, 25-12, 20-25, 15-8.
Meanwhile, Newbury Park entered their tilt with Agoura on Thursday with two consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with three. They came within a single set of losing the streak, but they secured a 3-2 W against the Chargers. The game was the first time the Panthers have beaten the Chargers on their court since September 8, 2022.
Newbury Park took Agoura into a fifth set where they got it done with a 12-point win. The final score came out to 22-25, 28-26, 25-16, 22-25, 15-3.
Newbury Park's win bumped their record up to 24-9. As for Thousand Oaks, their defeat was their first in the league, dropping their league record down to 8-1 and their overall record down to 28-4.
Everything went Thousand Oaks' way against Newbury Park in their previous meeting back in September, as Thousand Oaks made off with a 3-0 victory. The rematch might be a little tougher for the Lancers since the squad won't have the home-court advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
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