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Liberty volleyball falls to 0-2 in Cedar Run
It set up like a nice homecoming for first-year Liberty co-coaches Theresa Gore Kevin Mozingo.
After winning three of four matches to open this season, they returned last Tuesday to Culpeper County High, where they coached in 2007.
It didn't play out too nicely, though.
The Culpeper Blue Devils beat Gore, Mozingo and the Liberty Eagles in straight sets, 25-19, 29-27, 25-23, and then Liberty lost 25-16, 25-19, 25-13 loss to Loudoun Valley last Thursday.
"It was tough," Gore said of the Culpeper match. "I want my [Liberty] team now to win, but most of those [Culpeper] girls I’ve been working with for years...It was hard to see the girls you’re used to coaching on the other side of the net."
Gore and Mozingo left Culpeper after last season when the school decided to only retain coaches who were also teachers, Gore said. A young Blue Devils team only won two matches with Gore as head coach in 2007, finishing last in the district with a winless record, but they appear much improved this season.
"This will be their best year," Gore said. "They have seven returning players."
Conversely, Liberty only has two players who returned with significant experience this season.
All three games against Culpeper were back-and-forth, Gore said, but the Eagles couldn't pull out a victory, especially after a controversial call in the second game.
Gore said a ball that was played into the net by Culpeper was not ruled a dead ball, allowing the Blue Devils to tie the game after they had faced game-point. They went on to win that game 29-27...
See the Wednesday print edition of the Fauquier Times-Democrat for the complete story.
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