Florida High defeated Leon 3-0 on Tuesday, Oct. 6, in an away non-conference matchup, earning its second win over the Lions this season. The Seminoles improved to 20-3 with the victory, while Leon dropped to 16-8.<\/p>\n
The matchup was the second meeting between the two teams this season. Florida High won the first meeting on Sept. 15 in five sets.<\/p>\n
Florida High came out strong in the opening set, building an early 4-0 advantage. Leon responded with a run behind several serves, but the Seminoles regained control and eventually built a 21-12 lead. Florida High closed out the opening set 25-13, using strong serving and consistent defense to take an early 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
The Seminoles carried that momentum into the second set, jumping out to a 9-2 advantage behind strong serving from Addison Mayernick. Florida High continued to apply pressure offensively and led 20-13 late in the set.<\/p>\n
Leon responded with a push of its own, including a big block from Aubriyaun Brown that helped cut the deficit to 16-20. Florida High held off the comeback attempt, however, and eventually took the set 25-20. An ace from MacKenzie Taber helped seal the set and put the Seminoles one set away from a sweep.<\/p>\n
Florida High again took control early in the third set, holding a 10-8 lead as Leon attempted to stay within striking distance. A series of Leon errors allowed the Seminoles to extend their advantage to 15-10.<\/p>\n
Leon called a timeout with Florida High leading 19-12, attempting to extend the match to a fourth set. The Seminoles maintained their advantage down the stretch and finished off the sweep with a cross court kill from Kassidy Young, ending the third set with a score of 25-19.<\/p>\n
Florida High will close out its regular season Thursday, Oct. 8, when it hosts The Rock. Leon will finish its regular season Wednesday, Oct. 7, against Maclay at home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida High defeated Leon 3-0 on Tuesday, Oct. 6, in an away non-conference matchup, earning its second win…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-421635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}