Volleyblogging update

So last night we played the first place team in our league. Luckily, we had a full team, and for the most part, we held our own against them that otherwise thought they had an easy win comming.

We still lost. But there were moments we caught them off guard.
Some of our confidence may be due in part to the fact that we were able to practice before we played.
I set up hitting lines, and we practiced serving, and I'm positive that made difference going into our match.
I had one or two awesome kills, and Andrea STUFFED their best hitter in the second game.

Completely shut her down! Way to go Andrea!!!!!!

As our ref advised us after the match, we need to get in a mind frame of setting up our hitters so we can stay in control of our game.
Not just hitting the ball over any old way because it's the third hit. Our passing NEEDS to improve (and we're not even close to having a libero) and most importantly, we need someone to step up and PLAY the setters position for us to take advantage of our opponents.

Kim is a lefty, and we need our setters to realize that she needs her sets in a different spot than the rest of us for Kim to use her hitting to it's greatest potential.

We are comming along nicely...a little frustrating at times but comming along none the less.
I gave all the girls a little "volleyball" pin in hopes it would promote team unity, they're the same ones you get in highschool before you recieve your Major Letter in that sport.

So I now shift my focus to next week, and lets hope those little pins bring some extra magic to our team, because I am forecasting at least ONE more win in this league before it's over.
Otherwise I'm letting the Canadians invade us.