Aiken has gone 8-1 against Gilbert recently and they'll look to pad the win column further on Monday. The Aiken Fighting Green Hornets will look to defend their home court against the Gilbert Indians at 6:00 p.m. Aiken will be looking to keep their six-game home win streak alive.
Last Wednesday, Aiken made easy work of Crestwood and carried off a 3-0 win.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Aiken was: they took every set by at least ten points. The match finished with set scores of 25-11, 25-15, 25-9.
If Gray Collegiate Academy wanted to avenge their loss from the last time they played Gilbert, they should've done a better job of containing Abigail Widmann. Gilbert narrowly escaped with a victory as the squad sidled past Gray Collegiate Academy 3-2 thanks in part to Widmann, who had 16 digs and six aces. Those six aces gave her a new career-high.
Gilbert wouldn't go down easily and took Gray Collegiate Academy into a fifth set where they got it done with a five-point win. The final score came out to 21-25, 27-25, 25-15, 23-25, 15-10.
Gilbert was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 13 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least five aces in four consecutive matches.
Aiken has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won ten of their last 11 matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 19-9 record this season. As for Gilbert, the win got them back to even at 13-13.
Aiken was able to grind out a solid victory over Gilbert when the teams last played back in October, winning 3-1. Does Aiken have another victory up their sleeve, or will Gilbert turn the tables on them? We'll have the answer soon enough.
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