The Lockport Porters will face off against the Plainfield North Tigers at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both come into the matchup bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Lockport is on a roll after a high-stakes playoff matchup on Tuesday. They walked away with a 2-0 win over Romeoville. The victory continues a trend for the Porters in their matchups with the Spartans: they've now won seven in a row.
Meanwhile, Plainfield North hadn't done well against Lincoln-Way Central recently (they were 0-5 in their previous five matchups), but they didn't let the past get in their way on Tuesday. The Tigers won by a set and slipped past the Knights 2-1.
It was an exciting match in which no team won back-to-back sets, but at the end of the day Plainfield North got the one that really mattered. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-21, 18-25, 25-19.
Lockport's win bumped their record up to 29-7. As for Plainfield North, the victory got them back to even at 15-15.
Lockport was able to grind out a solid win over Plainfield North when the teams last played back in August of 2022, winning 2-0. Do the Porters have another victory up their sleeve, or will the Tigers turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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