The O'Farrell Charter Falcons will head out to square off against the Mountain Empire Redhawks at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Each of these teams will be fighting to keep a win streak alive as O'Farrell Charter comes in on nine and Mountain Empire on seven.
On Thursday, O'Farrell Charter was able to grind out a solid victory over High Tech CV, taking the game 3-1.
O'Farrell Charter had a slow start but a hot finish: after dropping the first set, they turned around to win the next three. The final score came out to 23-25, 25-19, 25-15, 25-20.
Mountain Empire won the last time they faced The Cambridge School and Rowan Smith did her part to make sure it happened again. The Redhawks won by a set and slipped past the Griffins 3-2 for which the team can thank Smith, who had 39 digs and three aces. She has been hot recently, having posted three or more aces the last four times she's played.
If you add up the scores from across all five sets (104-100) Mountain Empire actually scored fewer points, but in the end it didn't matter. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 20-25, 25-18, 14-25, 25-22, 16-14.
O'Farrell Charter better focus on containing Elysa Cisneros and Josalin Shawcroft as the pair were huge in Mountain Empire's win. Cisneros had 15 digs and four assists, while Shawcroft had 23 digs, 11 kills, and one block. That's the most assists Cisneros has posted since back in August.
O'Farrell Charter's record now sits at 17-4. As for Mountain Empire, their record is now 22-7.
Everything went O'Farrell Charter's way against Mountain Empire in their previous matchup back in September, as O'Farrell Charter made off with a 3-0 win. The rematch might be a little tougher for the Falcons since the team won't have the home-court advantage this time around. We'll see if the change in venue makes a difference.
