Woodrow Wilson will play its last regular-season volleyball match Friday at Adamson with the District 13-5A championship already won and one number still worth watching: the Wildcats have dropped one set in 15 district matches.
Wilson is 15-0 in district play and has won the sets in those matches 45-1, according to MaxPreps. The lone set it gave up came in a 3-1 win at Hillcrest on Sept. 11. When the two met again on Oct. 13, also in Hillcrest's gym, Wilson won in three.
The 6:30 p.m. match at Adamson, which is 0-15 in the district, is all that stands between Wilson and a perfect run through a nine-team league made up entirely of Dallas ISD schools.
From an 8-13 start to 14 straight
The district record looks nothing like the one Wilson built in August. Its non-district schedule, most of it in tournaments, ended at 8-13. The losses came against a list heavy with suburban programs, including Plano, Plano East, McKinney Boyd, Richardson, Royse City and Frisco's Emerson, Independence and Lebanon Trail.
The turn came at the end of that stretch. After losing to Wills Point on Aug. 29, Wilson beat Tyler later that day and has not lost since, a run that now stands at 14 matches. Twelve of the 13 district matches inside that streak were sweeps, and the overall record has climbed to 23-13.
Wilson's two district wins before the streak began, over Sunset on Aug. 25 and White on Aug. 28, were sweeps as well.
The rest of 13-5A
The other three playoff places are spoken for, though not yet in order. Hillcrest is second in the MaxPreps standings at 12-2, followed by White at 11-4 and Seagoville at 9-6. Sunset, at 7-8 with one match left, can finish no better than 8-8 and cannot catch Seagoville.
Wilson swept both of its meetings with White and with Seagoville, the other two teams joining it and Hillcrest in the bracket.
