Mountainside is 0-3 against North Valley Christian Academy since October of 2021 but things could change on Tuesday. The Mountainside Wolves will stay at home for another game and welcome the North Valley Christian Academy Lions at 6:00 p.m. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
While Mountainside didn't have the best season last year (they finished 4-14), it's starting to look like those struggles are a thing of the past. They put the hurt on Mohave Accelerated with a sharp 3-0 victory on Thursday.
Not only was the match a shutout, it was a big one: Mountainside took every set by at least ten points. The final score came out to 25-14, 25-10, 25-15.
Mountainside's win was the result of several impressive offensive performances. One of the most notable came from Kennedy Snodgrass, who had ten digs. That high mark didn't come from nowhere: Snodgrass now had ten or more in the last three games she's played dating back to last season.
Mountainside was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 24 aces. That's a new trend for them: they were averaging 0 aces per game earlier this season, but in their last five contests they've averaged 17.8.
Meanwhile, North Valley Christian Academy had already won seven in a row and they went ahead and made it eight on Thursday. They were the clear victor by a 3-0 margin over the Lions.
A big factor in the win was North Valley Christian Academy's feisty defense: they held St. John Paul II Catholic to fewer and fewer points set over set. The match finished with set scores of 25-23, 25-22, 25-21.
Mountainside's win bumped their record up to 7-3. As for North Valley Christian Academy, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 12 of their last 13 matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 16-5 record this season.
Mountainside suffered a grim 3-0 defeat to North Valley Christian Academy when the teams last played back in September of 2023. Can Mountainside avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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