Central faced Cabot in a battle between two of the state's top teams on Tuesday. The Tigers fell just short of the Panthers by a score of 3-2. That makes it the first time this season the Tigers have let down their home crowd.
Central actually scored more points across those five sets (105-104), but sadly they still had to settle for second. The match finished with set scores of 20-25, 25-23, 16-25, 28-26, 15-6.
Central's loss was their first in the conference, dropping their conference record down to 2-1 and their overall record down to 9-2. As for Cabot, the win (which was their tenth in a row) raised their record to 17-1.
We've got plenty of inter-conference action coming up soon. Central will take on rival Conway at 6:00 p.m. on Thursday. Meanwhile, Cabot is set to face off against their familiar foe Bryant at 5:00 p.m. on Thursday.
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