The Royals traveled to George on Tuesday September 16. The pairing was an entertaining edge of your seat competition with the Royals getting enough to claim the match, 3 sets to 2.
The opening set went to visitors MMCRU with a 25-23 win. Sets 2 and 3 went to the hosts. Set 2 settled at 18-25 with set 3 landing at 19-25.
The Royals battled through set 4. It was a hard-fought win going extra points. The Royals won the set 26-24.
Set 5 was the same thriller. A fifth set plays to 15. The competing teams played every point of the a tie-breaker with the Royals ending it at 15-13.
The Royals claim 55 assists agains the Mustang’s 58 over the 5 sets. MMCRU hit 66 kills against the opponent’s 63 with more than double the kill errors, 33 to 15. The Royals showed successful aggressiveness at the net pounding 228 kill attempts against the host’s 195.
Chloe Alesch recorded both of MMCRU’s solo blocks with G-LR’s Grace Ubbinga getting their only solo block.
G-LR served up 100 successes out of 113 attempts. Out of that they produced 9 aces. MMCRU claims 95 successful serves with 5 aces. The Royals had 101 serve attempts.