After both having extra time off, the Belton Pirates and the Raymore-Peculiar Panthers will shake off the rust and duke it out at 6:00 p.m. on Monday. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Belton has three straight wins, Raymore-Peculiar has nine straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the court.
Belton proved they can win big last Thursday (they won by three) and on Tuesday they proved they can win the close ones too. They had just enough and edged out Northeast 3-2.
Belton was actually outscored in aggregate across those five sets (109-94), but they still managed to win. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 20-25, 27-25, 25-23, 7-25, 15-11.
Meanwhile, Raymore-Peculiar came up short against Rockhurst on Tuesday, falling 3-0.
The match finished with set scores of 25-9, 25-6, 25-12.
Belton's victory bumped their record up to 18-13-3. As for Raymore-Peculiar, their loss dropped their record down to 3-23-1.
Belton took their win against Raymore-Peculiar in their previous meeting back in March by a conclusive 3-0 score. Will the Pirates repeat their success, or do the Panthers have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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