Playoffs: Seven Lakes vs. Fort Bend Travis – Top Performers

<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The high school volleyball playoffs are underway in the state of Texas and the first days of the postseason featured the always exciting bi-district round, which opposed teams from neighbor districts.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>As we continue to bring you the best high school volleyball coverage, we'll be following some of the key matches of the most critical encounters of the postseason and will keep detailing how they played out and who were the top players on the court.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>On Tuesday, November 1, one of the matches we followed was the one reuniting teams from Conference 6A, districts 19 and 20, at the Wheeler Fieldhouse and ended with a three-set (25-18, 25-18, 25-22) victory of the Seven Lakes Spartans over the Fort Bend Travis Tigers. Seven Lakes will now face the Stratford Spartans in the area round.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:embed {"url":"https://x.com/7LakesVBnews/status/1587598305885913088?s=20u0026t=fa7GIVXCjgjafnW4_YyQtw","type":"rich","providerNameSlug":"twitter","responsive":true} --> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> https://x.com/7LakesVBnews/status/1587598305885913088?s=20&amp;t=fa7GIVXCjgjafnW4_YyQtw </div></figure> <!-- /wp:embed --> <!-- wp:paragraph {"fontSize":"large"} --> <p class="has-large-font-size"><strong>Top Performers</strong></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --> <!-- wp:acf/evaluation-block {"id":"block_6361aea1746eb","name":"acf/evaluation-block","data":{"player_evaluations_0_player":["124148"],"_player_evaluations_0_player":"field_62ab9d62ecf2c","player_evaluations_0_override_profile_image":"","_player_evaluations_0_override_profile_image":"override-player-profile-image","player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":"","_player_evaluations_0_not_in_database":"field_62aba48cecf2d","player_evaluations_0_evaluation":"u003cp class=u0022p1u0022 style=u0022text-align: left;u0022u003eu003cspan class=u0022s1u0022u003eThe middle-turned-into-outside hitter had a great offensive performance. Burns sided out at a very good rate, tallying 17 kills, and scored points in difficult sets and important moments of every set. She displayed excellent resources too, scoring off of tips and a beautiful jumbo shot on set one. 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