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| 10/16/24 - Home | 3-1 W |
| 09/14/24 - Neutral | 2-1 W |
| 10/24/23 - Neutral | 3-0 W |
| 10/25/22 - Neutral | 0-3 L |
| 09/10/22 - Neutral | 1-2 L |
| + 5 more games |
Sacred Heart is 8-2 against DuPont Manual since September of 2016 and they'll have a chance to extend that dominance on Wednesday. The Valkyries will take on the Crimsons at 7:30 p.m. Both teams are coming into the matchup red-hot, with Sacred Heart sitting on five straight victories and DuPont Manual on three.
Sacred Heart is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Kentucky's top teams: Ballard, who was ranked seventh at the time (Sacred Heart was ranked ninth). The Valkyries walked away with a 3-1 win over the Bruins on Monday.
Sacred Heart was especially dominant in the first set. The match finished with set scores of 25-15, 25-18, 22-25, 25-17.
Among those leading the charge was Campbell Miles, who had 12 digs and two aces.
Miles wasn't the only good servers: Sacred Heart was lethal from the service line and finished the match with ten aces. That's the most aces they've posted since back in September.
Meanwhile, it's playoff time, and DuPont Manual had no trouble coming through when it counted. They were the clear victors by a 3-0 margin over Male on Monday.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant DuPont Manual was: they took every set by at least 12 points. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-5, 25-13, 25-13.
Sacred Heart's victory bumped their record up to 19-17. As for DuPont Manual, their win bumped their record up to 23-14.
Sacred Heart beat DuPont Manual 3-1 when the teams last played back in October of 2024. The rematch might be a little tougher for the Valkyries 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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