Melba has been on the road for six straight, but on Thursday they'll finally head home. They will host the Compass Charter Aviators at 7:30 p.m. Compass Charter took a loss in their last contest and will be looking to turn the tables on Melba, who comes in off a win.
Melba is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Idaho's top teams: Mountain View, who was ranked 21st in their home state at the time (Melba was ranked sixth). Melba sure made it a nail-biter, but they managed to escape with a 3-2 win over Mountain View on Saturday.
Melba was actually outscored in aggregate across those five sets (107-93), but they still managed to win. The match finished with set scores of 17-25, 25-20, 10-25, 25-23, 16-14.
Meanwhile, Compass Charter was not able to break out of their rough patch on Thursday as the team picked up their seventh straight loss. They came up short against New Plymouth, falling 3-0.
The final score came out to 25-10, 25-19, 25-8.
Melba has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won 15 of their last 16 games, which provided a nice bump to their 18-3-1 record this season. As for Compass Charter, their defeat dropped their record down to 4-7.
Everything went Melba's way against Compass Charter in their previous meeting back in October of 2023, as Melba made off with a 3-0 victory. Does Melba have another victory up their sleeve, or will Compass Charter turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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