Pine Creek is 8-2 against Liberty since October of 2017, and they'll have a chance to extend that success on Thursday. The Pine Creek Eagles will welcome the Liberty Lancers at 6:00 p.m. The teams are on pretty different trajectories at the moment (Pine Creek has three straight wins, Liberty has 11 straight defeats), but none of that matters once you're on the court.
Last Thursday, everything went Pine Creek's way against Fountain-Fort Carson as Pine Creek made off with a 3-0 victory.
Pine Creek walked away with the win (and looked especially good in the second set). The match finished with set scores of 25-18, 25-7, 25-16.
Meanwhile, 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.
Despite the loss, Liberty had strong showings from Cadence Schaffer, who had nine digs, and Brylee Bunck, who had three digs and two aces. Those two aces gave Bunck a new career-high.
Pine Creek is on a roll lately: they've won five of their last six matchups, which provided a nice bump to their 10-3 record this season. As for Liberty, their defeat dropped their record down to 1-12.
Pine Creek took their victory against Liberty in their previous matchup back in September by a conclusive 3-0. Will Pine Creek repeat their success, or does Liberty have a new game plan this time around? We'll find out soon enough.
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