The Eastside Early College Panthers will take on the Lago Vista Vikings at 5:30 p.m. on Friday. The two teams are sauntering into the matchup backed by comfortable wins in their prior games.
Eastside Early College is headed into the contest having just posted their biggest win since August 20th on Friday. Everything went their way against Travis as Eastside Early College made off with a 3-0 victory. The win made it back-to-back victories for the Panthers.
Meanwhile, Lago Vista came tearing into Tuesday's match with seven straight wins and they left with even more momentum. They were the clear victor by a 3-0 margin over the Raiders.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Lago Vista was: they took every set by at least 15 points. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-10, 25-8, 25-10.
Lago Vista can attribute much of their success to Paige Holloway, who had 16 digs. Holloway has been hot recently, having posted 13 or more digs the last seven times she's played. The team also got some help courtesy of Mikayla Vasquez, who had six digs and two aces.
She wasn't the only good server: Lago Vista was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 18 aces. That's a new trend for them: they were averaging 0 aces per game earlier this season, but in their last five matchups they've averaged 13.8.
Eastside Early College's win ended a four-game drought at home and bumped them up to 6-19. As for Lago Vista, they are on a roll lately: they've won nine of their last ten games, which provided a massive bump to their 12-18 record this season.
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