Liberty’s season has been a memorable one, but the Hurricanes hope they can make more memories over the course of this week in the East Penn Conference playoffs.

The Hurricanes (17-1) earned the second-seed for this week’s action, which got underway last night against seventh-seeded Emmaus (11-7).

The result of that contest was past Press deadlines, but the ’Canes entered as favorites to win, as well as make a run to Saturday’s 1pm conference final at Whitehall.

Head coach Missy Lynn has enjoyed a great season with this team and knows that the Green Hornets will be a formidable foe in the opening round of the tournament.

“We played Emmaus in our first tournament of the season and split with them,” Lynn said. “We played really well the first set and winning that gave us a confidence boost that we’ve been riding all season. I’m really excited to see how both teams have grown over the past six weeks.”

Liberty is riding a 15-game winning streak into the postseason, punctuated by last week’s win over Bethlehem Catholic in four games (25-20, 21-25, 25-15, 27-25).

The win showed that Liberty could put down Becahi twice in a season, as well as prove that this will be a team to be reckoned with moving into the tournament play.

But with all the focus on Emmaus, Lynn was only worrying about one thing heading into this week.

“Emmaus is always a top tier team in this conference with great coaches and athletes,” she said. “They’re young and so are we, so this should be an exciting match. They keep the ball in play and they’re going to make us earn our points, which is how we like it.

“If we can get some wins and face some of the stronger teams from the other divisions that we haven’t seen in the regular season, this tournament has the possibility of really helping us prepare for districts.

“How we play against Emmaus will be a good barometer for how we’ll match up against some of the other teams.”

Bethlehem Catholic (14-4) opened up tournament play on Tuesday as well against Central Catholic (12-4).

The Hawks loss to Liberty pushed them to the fifth seed in the tournament and forces them to play on the fourth seeded Vikings home court.

The Hawks lost to Central in both teams opening match of the season, as the Vikings took it in five games.

Freedom (11-7) was seeded eighth in the tournament and got the unfortunate distinction of playing top-seeded Parkland (16-0) in Tuesday’s opening round.

EPC semifinals will take place at 5:30pm and 7pm Thursday night at Whitehall.