Volleyball Preview: Liberty Redhawks vs. Lone Star Rangers
Liberty is 8-2 against Lone Star since September of 2018, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Tuesday. The Liberty Redhawks will challenge the Lone Star Rangers at 6:30 p.m. Liberty is looking to tack on another W to their ten-game streak on the road.
If Emerson wanted to avenge their loss from the last time they played Liberty, they should've done a better job of containing Riley Wong. Everything went Liberty's way against Emerson on Tuesday as Liberty made off with a 3-0 win thanks in part to Wong, who had five digs and 24 assists. She has been hot for a while, having posted 13 or more assists the last 23 times she's played.
Not only was the match a shutout, it was a big one: Liberty took every set by at least 12 points. The match finished with set scores of 25-11, 25-13, 25-13.
Liberty was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 11 aces. That's the most aces they've posted since back in August.
Wylie East typically has all the answers at home, but on Friday Lone Star proved too difficult a challenge. They skirted past the Raiders 3-2. The victory made it back-to-back wins for the Rangers.
Lone Star took Wylie East into a fifth set where they got it done with a seven-point win. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 22-25, 25-23, 25-17, 17-25, 15-8.
Lone Star got their victory on the backs of several key players, but it was Tilah Perez out in front who had 12 digs and three aces. The dominant performance gave Perez a new career-high in aces.
Liberty is on a roll lately: they've won 17 of their last 18 games, which provided a nice bump to their 28-7 record this season. As for Lone Star, their record is now 24-14.
Liberty was able to grind out a solid win over Lone Star in their previous matchup back in September, winning 3-1. Will Liberty repeat their success, or does Lone Star have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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