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Match Preview: San Diego Mojo vs. Orlando Valkyries: April 29, 2024

April 28, 2024 - Pro Volleyball Federation (PVF)
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The San Diego Mojo and Orlando Valkyries play for the third time this season when the teams meet in San Diego at 7 p.m. PT on Monday. The sides of split the season series so far with each team winning on the road. Orlando won in five sets at Viejas Arena on March 11 and San Diego collected the win in five sets at Addition Financial Arena on April 14.

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San Diego Mojo Outlook

San Diego enters play winners of five of their last eight matches, including a 3-2 mark at home. Last time out, the Mojo fell to the Vegas Thrill in five sets, San Diego's league-record fifth consecutive five-set match. In her third match with the Mojo, Willow Johnson tallied a match-high 22 kills and added 15 digs, while Temi Thomas-Ailara registered 11 kills with 17 digs. Ronika Stone had a season-high six blocks in the loss, scoring 15 points in the match, while setter Nootsara Tomkom had a match-high 49 assists and led the Mojo with 15 digs.

Thomas-Ailara is averaging a team-leading 16.6 points per match, the fifth-best mark in the league, while Stone is averaging 10.0 points and Lindsey Vander Weide is at 8.6 per contest. Johnson has averaged 16.7 points per outing through her first three matches.

Stone leads the team with 40 block wins, the ninth-most in the league, while her 2.2 block wins per match are the sixth-most.

Tomkom ranks second in the PVF averaging 10.8 assists per set, one of four players in the league averaging double-digits, and her 765 total assists are third overall. Shara Venegas has collected 273 successful digs this season, the fourth-most in the league, while Tomkom is eighth with 243 digs.

Orlando Valkyries Outlook

Orlando has lost five-straight matches, including their last two road matches. The Valkyries fell to the Columbus Fury on the road on Friday in four sets. Anae Adora leads the Valkyries in scoring, averaging 16.85 points per match, the fifth-best averaging in the PVF. Kaz Brown leads the league with 62 total block wins and is averaging 3.1 per match, while Wilma Rivera averages 8.8 assist per set and is fifth in the league with 623 sets. Georgia Murphy has 324 successful digs and Adora has 273, the second- and fifth-most in the league, respectively.

Up Next

San Diego hits the road for a pair of road matches in Grand Rapids on May 4-5, then return to San Diego on Tuesday, May 7 for the final home match of the season.



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