The Marquette Mustangs will take on the Nixa Eagles in a tournament on Saturday. Marquette is coming into the matchup hot, having won their last three games.
Marquette is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Missouri's top teams: Lee's Summit North, who was ranked 11th at the time (Marquette was ranked sixth). The Mustangs had just enough and edged out the Broncos 2-1.
Marquette had a slow start but a hot finish: after dropping the first set, they turned around to win the next two. The match finished with set scores of 22-25, 25-22, 25-21.
Meanwhile, Nixa didn't have quite enough to beat Lafayette on Friday and fell 2-1. The Eagles have now taken an 'L' in back-to-back games.
Nixa's defeat dropped their record down to 8-7. As for Marquette, their victory bumped their record up to 22-9.
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