Liberty has won four straight games at home, while Park Hill South has won four straight on the road, but those streaks won't matter much on Thursday. The Liberty Blue Jays will take on the Park Hill South Panthers at 5:00 p.m. Both come into the match bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Liberty is coming in fresh off a high-stakes matchup with another one of Missouri's top teams: Jefferson City, who was ranked 15th in their home state at the time (Liberty was ranked seventh). Liberty walked away with a 2-0 win over Jefferson City on Saturday.
Liberty never let Jefferson City on the board, but things got pretty close in the first set. The match finished with set scores of 25-22, 25-12.
Meanwhile, Park Hill South made easy work of Central on Tuesday and carried off a 3-0 victory.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Park Hill South was: they took every set by at least 11 points. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-12, 25-7, 25-14.
Avery Demint went supernova for Park Hill South, getting four digs and two aces. Demint is also on a roll when it comes to assists, as she's now posted 13 or more in the last ten games she's played dating back to last season.
Park Hill South couldn't miss and finished the game having scored on 40.6% of their attack attempts. The last time their hitting percentage was this high was in their last 11 games.
Liberty's win bumped their record up to 25-5. As for Park Hill South, they have been performing incredibly well recently as they've won nine of their last ten matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 26-8 record this season.
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