Liberty girls finish seventh in 2B tournament
YAKIMA – The Liberty Lancers girls volleyball team returned from the Yakima Valley SunDome on Friday, Nov. 12, with a seventh-place state 2B trophy.
The Lancers, the No. 13 seed, opened the tournament against the No. 4-ranked Goldendale Timberwolves on Thursday.
Goldendale took the game 3-1; set scores were 25-18, 25-23, 15 -25 and 25-18.
The loss put the Lancers in the consolation, loser-out rounds.
As one of the lower seeds in the tournament, they would have to win their next two games against higher-ranked teams to bring home a trophy.
In their first loser-out battle, the Liberty girls topped No. 12-seeded Tri-Cities Prep, 3-1. Set scores were 25-21, 25-15, 22-25 and 25-20.
The win advanced them to a second- loser-out game, where they would face No. 8-seed Toutle Lake.
The Lancers won the first two sets, 25-21 and 25-20.
But the Eagles wouldn’t be shot down the third or fourth set. They battled back to top Liberty 25-16 and 25-21, setting up a fifth set – the rally set.
Liberty edged Toutle Lake 15-12 to advance to the trophy game for seventh and eighth places against No. 11-seeded Adna.
Adna reached the game by topping Warden, 3-0, and Lind-Ritzville/Sprague, 3-1, in the consolation bracket, after losing its state-open to Walla Walla Academy, 3-0.
Liberty won the opening salvo, 25-21. But Adna bounced back to take Set 2, 25-23.
In the third set, the Lancer girls ignited for a 25-19 win, then topped it out with a Set 4 victory, 25-22, to capture the seventh-place trophy.
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