In the first of what would turn out to be three regular-season encounters, the Liverpool girls volleyball team got the better of archrival Cicero-North Syracuse, and it took just three sets. Last Monday’s match began with the Warriors buzzing through the first set 25-11. Though the Northstars picked up a few more points in the next two sets, Liverpool never let them put together any sort of run, and took the next two sets by 25-16 and 25-11 margins. Julia Flohr earned 17 assists, feeding it to a well-balanced Warriors front line. Lexi McLaggan and Julia Mumpton each had seven kills and three blocks, combining for five aces, too, as Karlie King got six kills and five digs. Amelia Bartier contributed four kills as Samantha Wolf earned 15 digs. On C-NS’s side, Samantha Ciciarelli needed 17 digs to keep points alive in front of Kira Kullman (four kills) and Sharlene Richards (three blocks) as Kayla Tutt had three kills, three blocks and two digs. Kullman finished with six digs. While the Northstars and Warriors have a regular-season rematch set for Oct. 21, they would meet again Saturday in different circumstances – namely, the Bronze Division final of the Baldwinsville Fall Swing Tournament. Liverpool would sweep Saratoga Springs and split two sets with Cazenovia and Victor before a three-set 25-19, 24-26, 15-0 conquest of Corning-Painted Post. Following a sweep of Oswego, the Warriors found itself confronting C-NS again, this after the Northstars swept Phoenix, but lost to both Burnt Hills and Honeoye Falls-Lima. A split with Fulton followed, but in the division final C-NS again could not catch up with Liverpool, who won by scores of 25-20 in the first set and 25-18 in the second set. In between these confrontations, both teams played Wednesday, and both of them won – C-NS sweeping Henninger 25-11, 25-20, 25-6, Liverpool doing the same to Corcoran 25-5, 25-17, 25-17. Against the Black Knights, the Northstars got more than a set’s worth of points came from aces – 28 in all. Tutt had seven of those aces, plus 11 assists, with Richards getting six aces and six assists. Barry added four aces as Kullman got three aces and a team-best six kills. Mallory Eymer got five kills and Ciciarelli picked up three aces. In routing Cortland, Flohr had five kills and upped her total to 20 assists as 10 different Warriors earned at least one kill. Mumpton, McLaggan and Katie Boak each got four kills, with Wolf earning five digs.