Liberty's volleyball team has had a bumpy ride over the past week, but the Hurricanes hope they can put it all behind them as they head into the final stretch run of the regular season.

The Hurricanes (8-4, 8-3) suffered a defeat to Northampton (7-4, 7-3) in three games (23-25, 17-25, 16-15) last week that may have jolted the confidence of the team if Neiad Ammary wasn't their head coach.

Instead, Ammary is hoping his crew can focus on the final week of the regular season before East Penn Conference playoff action starts next week.

"I feel OK about where we're at right now," Ammary said. "I'm still concerned that we haven't played a break out match and that we've been inconsistent in some parts of our game."

The Northampton loss may have been more of a shocker in the sense that the 'Canes were swept in the affair, which wasn't helped by the loss of setter, Jake Gallagher, to a chin injury early in the first game against the K-Kids.

Gallagher wouldn't return for the rest of the match and Liberty never a found a way to recover.

"That set the tone for the match unfortunately," said Ammary. "Northampton took advantage of it. They played better, but we just got derailed. There's not much more you can say. It's just tough that after we beat Nazareth in five games a day before, that we go out and lose to Northampton."

With Monday's sweep over Bethlehem Catholic 25-10, 25-10, 25-14, followed by Wednesday's contest against Easton (1-12) and Friday's regular season finale against Freedom (6-8) on the table for this week, Liberty needs to finish strong as the EPC playoffs kickoff next week.

"We've beaten everyone in the division already this year so we want to run the table this week," Ammary said. "We still have some question marks about how good we can be as a team this season. We just need to be consistent."

Bethlehem Catholic (0-12) may be enduring their toughest season ever, as the Hawks failed to win over Dieruff last week, getting swept by the Huskies.

The Hawks have been swept in all of their matches except two this season.

Freedom (7-9) could find themselves in a very interesting predicament this week, as the Pates defeated Easton Monday night 25-17, 23-25, 25-11, 25-15 and then take on Becahi on Wednesday.

A win over the Hawks would put a district playoff berth on the line for the Pates as they head into Memorial Gymnasium for Friday's battle with Liberty,

Liberty took three out of four games in the initial encounter this season.