Liberty is on a five-game streak of home wins, while Chowchilla is on a three-game streak of away wins: one of those streaks is about to end. The Liberty Hawks will welcome the Chowchilla Tribe at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday. Both come into the match bolstered by wins in their previous matches.
Liberty will bounce into Tuesday's contest after beating Minarets, who they hadn't topped in nine consecutive meetings. Liberty had just enough and edged Minarets out 3-2 on Thursday.
Liberty wouldn't go down easily and took Minarets into a fifth set where they got it done with a four-point win. The match finished with set scores of 25-22, 25-14, 21-25, 18-25, 15-11.
Meanwhile, Chowchilla made easy work of Riverdale on Wednesday and carried off a 3-0 victory.
The 3-0 score doesn't show just how dominant Chowchilla was: they took every set by at least 12 points. Once all was said and done, the final score wound up at 25-10, 25-13, 25-5.
Chowchilla's success was spearheaded by the efforts of Tasha Dickey, who had ten aces, and Kaylynne Haynes, who had five aces and 16 assists. The dominant performance gave Dickey a new career-high in aces.
Chowchilla was lethal from the service line and finished the game with 26 aces. That strong performance was nothing new for the team: they've now served at least six aces in ten consecutive matchups.
Liberty is on a roll lately: they've won four of their last five games, which provided a nice bump to their 14-8-1 record this season. As for Chowchilla, their win bumped their record up to 16-6.
Liberty came up short against Chowchilla in their previous meeting back in October of 2023, falling 3-1. Can Liberty avenge their defeat or is history doomed to repeat itself? We'll find out soon enough.
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