No. 10 Prairie tops No. 7 Lions again
The girls on the Cedar Rapids Prairie volleyball team have turned the Linn-Mar gym into their favorite home away from home.
The 10th-ranked Hawks rallied for a 25-11, 20-25, 13-25, 25-23, 15-13 victory over the seventh-ranked Lions in an exciting Mississippi Valley Conference match Tuesday night.
The victory came just three days after Prairie topped Linn-Mar, 2-0, in the championship match of the Linn-Mar Invitational on Saturday.
The Hawks knew the Lions were looking for revenge Tuesday night after what happened over the weekend.
"I definitely think that win on Saturday made the target on our back a little bigger, but we are a team that can take that," said Prairie senior Kenzie Soeken, who ended the match with a vicious kill.
"We never want to lose to them," added Prairie smash-shot artist Kate Busswitz, who will play at Northern Iowa next year. "We're sick of losing."
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