Liberty is 2-8 against Pine Creek since October of 2017 but they'll have a chance to close the gap a little bit on Thursday. The Liberty Lancers are on the road again to play the Pine Creek Eagles at 6:00 p.m.
Liberty and Doherty met for a duel on Tuesday where Liberty had to take the L. Liberty lost 3-0 to Doherty.
While Liberty was kept off the board, it wasn't for a lack of trying: they cut into Doherty's winning margin in every set. The match finished with set scores of 25-11, 25-19, 25-20.
Liberty's defeat shouldn't obscure the performances of Cadence Schaffer, who had nine digs, and Brylee Bunck, who had three digs and two aces. The dominant performance gave Bunck a new career-high in aces.
Meanwhile, Pine Creek entered their tilt with Fountain-Fort Carson on Thursday with two consecutive wins but they'll enter their next game with three. Everything went their way against the Trojans as they made off with a 3-0 win.
Pine Creek was especially dominant in the second set. The match finished with set scores of 25-18, 25-7, 25-16.
Liberty's loss dropped their record down to 1-12. As for Pine Creek, they have been performing well recently as they've won five of their last six matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 10-3 record this season.
Liberty might still be hurting after the 3-0 defeat they got from Pine Creek in their previous meeting back in September. Can Liberty avenge their loss or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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