The Ursuline Fighting Irish will venture away from home to challenge the Girard Indians at 7:00 p.m. on Monday. Ursuline is coming into the matchup hot, having won their last seven games.
Ursuline proved they can win big on Wednesday (they won by three) and on Thursday they proved they can win the close ones too. They won by a set and slipped past Mineral Ridge 3-2.
Ursuline had a slow start but a hot finish: after dropping the first two sets, they turned around to win the next three. The final score came out to 18-25, 20-25, 25-20, 25-14, 15-7.
The home team had come away the winner the last four times Girard and Lakeview had met, but sadly for the fans who attended this one that wasn't the case. The Indians came up short against the Bulldogs on Thursday, falling 3-0.
Girard was held off the scoreboard, but that almost wasn't the case: they kept the first set very close. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-22, 25-16, 25-20.
Girard's defeat dropped their record down to 6-11. As for Ursuline, their win bumped their record up to 11-5.
Ursuline might still be hurting after the 3-0 loss they got from Girard in their previous matchup back in September of 2020. Can the Fighting Irish avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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