It can be hard to translate regular season success to the playoffs, but Lutheran had no problem doing just that on Thursday. They walked away with a 3-1 victory over the Platte County Pirates.
Lutheran was especially dominant in the first set. The match finished with set scores of 25-11, 18-25, 25-20, 25-17.
Lacey Zumbehl paced Lutheran's offense, picking up 21 kills. Zumbehl got some help from
Katelyn Diani-O'Day and her 38 assists. Diani-O'Day was also solid from the service line: she led the team with three aces.
Lutheran has been performing incredibly well recently as they've won six of their last seven contests, which provided a massive bump to their 24-14 record this season. A key ingredient in that success has been their performance when it comes to blocks: they averaged an imposing 1.87 blocks in those games compared to only 1.87 in the others. As for Platte County, this is the second loss in a row for them and nudges their season record down to 22-13-1.
As of now, neither Lutheran nor Platte County have any future games scheduled.
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