The Great Hearts Western Hills Spartans will take on the Somerset Academy Collegiate Bears at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday. Both come into the matchup bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Great Hearts Western Hills is headed into the match having just posted their closest victory since September 5th on Thursday. They came out on top in a nail-biter against Bracken Christian, sneaking past 3-2.
The match was a true back-and-forth as no team won consecutive sets, but in the end it was Great Hearts Western Hills who won the one that mattered. The final score came out to 25-21, 17-25, 25-22, 21-25, 15-11.
Great Hearts Western Hills' success was spearheaded by the efforts of Elsie Walter, who had 15 digs and two aces, and Macayla Sandoval, who had eight digs and two assists.
They weren't the only good servers: Great Hearts Western Hills was lethal from the service line and finished the match with 12 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least five aces in 20 consecutive contests.
Meanwhile, Somerset Academy Collegiate entered their tilt with Varsity Opponent on Monday with two consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with three. They put the hurt on Varsity Opponent with a sharp 3-0 win. The game snapped a strange streak: the last three times these teams have met, it?s been the away team that?s taken home the W.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Somerset Academy Collegiate was: they took every set by at least 14 points. The match finished with set scores of 25-7, 25-8, 25-11.
Somerset Academy Collegiate's victory bumped their record up to 19-12-1. As for Great Hearts Western Hills, their win bumped their record up to 26-6.
