The Lyndon B. Johnson Lady Wolves finally broke into the district win column.
The Lady Wolves beat Martin on the road, 25-18, 20-25, 25-22, 22-25 and 16-14 to claim their first District 29-5A win for the season.
Martin, which earlier in the season had broken a three-year winless district drought, was not able to take advantage of its home crowd.
The Lady Wolves were slow to find their offensive rhythm, much to the delight of the Lady Tigers, who jumped out to a 3-2 lead.
LBJ, however, behind Lety Reyes and Lizzette Martinez, started to find the holes in the Martin defense.
The Lady Wolves built a 20-15 lead on great offensive movement of the ball and a defense that denied Martin any offensive momentum.
A different Martin team took the court in game two.
Amy Delgado and Amber Garcia controlled the net to start Martin's offensive attack.
LBJ battled every step of the way, keeping within striking distance to regain the lead at any moment, but the Lady Tigers took game two to even the series.
LBJ jumped out to a quick 6-1 lead when it was penalized for a wrong rotation to its lead and fall behind 2-1.
The loss of those points, though, did not deter the Lady Wolves’ motivation as they regained the lead at 5-3.
LBJ maintained the lead all the way through to take game three, 25-22.
Martin fought back to even up the series at two, taking the fourth game, 25-22, to send it to the fifth and final game.
Both teams pulled out all the stops with great offensive play and a defense that would not give up.
Down the stretch, Martin committed key errors on defense, leaving LBJ jumping for joy with its first district win.
LBJ STATS: Yesenia Ortiz (one block, three digs, four kills), Jenny Salinas (three blocks, one dig, four kills), Rachel Aguilar (five kills), Lizzette Martinez (12 kills, 22 digs, three aces), Daniela Garza (20 digs, threes aces), Letty Reyes (16 kills, 24 digs, three aces), Stephanie Almanza (10 digs, 13 assists), Ethel Garcia (one ace, two digs, 28 assists).
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