Amherst waltzed into their game on Thursday with two straight wins... but they left with three. They won by a set and slipped past the Wilcox-Hildreth Falcons 2-1. The Broncos have seen this before: they got the W the last time they saw the Falcons, too.
The match was a true back-and-forth as no team won consecutive sets, but in the end it was Amherst who won the one that mattered. The match finished with set scores of 25-19, 24-26, 25-6.
Amherst found their leader in underclassman Breckyn Layne Veskerna, who had 14 digs.
Amherst was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 13 aces. That's the most aces they've posted since back in September.
Amherst is on a roll lately: they've won 14 of their last 16 matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 17-5 record this season. As for Wilcox-Hildreth, their loss was their fifth straight on the road, which dropped their record down to 3-14.
Amherst will challenge Kearney Catholic at 7:00 p.m. on Tuesday. As for Wilcox-Hildreth, they didn't take long to hit the court again: they've already played their next contest, a 2-1 defeat against Loomis on the 3rd.
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