Tournament Results: Massillon Rec Center

JVBC played in its 3rd tournament yesterday at the Massillon Rec Center.  They had a great day!  

In addition to our families, we had some friends come to watch us for part of the day!  These included Nora who came to watch us; she's come multiple times to cheer our team on!  Mrs. Moore also stopped by to watch a match!

In our 1st match, we played PCVC (Brittany) whom we'd played at our first tournament at Xtreme Sports.  We were still fairly evenly matched with this team but didn't miss as many serves as we did the first time playing them; in fact we did great with our serves this entire day!  We won in 2, 25-15 and 25-19!

Our 2nd match was against Club Extreme.  We played against our classmate Emily in this match!  This team was very similar to PCVC.  We had some great strings of serves and some great hustling plays!  We won in 2, 25-15 and 25-19.

Our 3rd match was against Club Crush (Orrville).  We also played this good team at our Xtreme tournament during the tournament play.  In that match, we took them to 3 but lost steam in the 3rd game.  This time, we were ready for them!  We won the first game in exciting fashion 25-21 (and only missed 1 serve!)!  They were back and ready and ended up beating us 25-27.  We had match point several times but just couldn't pull it off.  We started off behind in the third game but came back to tie it up.  But again, couldn't pull out the win; we lost 15-17!  Even with losing to this team, we played super well against them, probably the best of the season!  It was really exciting and we are proud that our girls did so well against them!  This put us in 2nd place in our pool, same as last weekend!

We played Club Crush (Becker) in the semi-finals match.  This team was very good and seemed to have no trouble beating anyone in the tournament, including us unfortunately.  We were disappointed with how we played against them while in the match and lost in 2.  However, once we started reffing the championship match (Club Crush Becker against Club Crush Orrville), we saw just how good they were!  The Club Crush Orrville team that was so good that we lost to in 3 actually scored less points against Club Crush Becker than we did!  This team was just very good and maybe is playing more at an American level than a Regional level.  Watching this match made us feel better about our play against them in the semi-finals!

Overall this day was very exciting!  We made the Gold Bracket for the third time in a row at our tournaments!  And we got medals for coming in 3rd in the entire tournament!  We also reffed a record 4 times so our girls are on their way to becoming experts!  Here is a picture of us with our 3rd place medals:

Standing: Coach Dannug, Nora, Liv, Kaylee, Emma, Marley, Sam, Kara, Coach Hubbard
Kneeling: Marina, Amanda, Emmilee

Picture from Elite Sports Tournament

This picture came from Sophia's mom from our tournament at Elite Sports last weekend!

Sophia, Alana, Nora, Emma, Marina, Marley, Sam, Liv

Upcoming Tournament: Massillon Rec Center

JVBC's next tournament is this Saturday March 18 at the Massillon Rec Center!  Here is the information for this weekend:

Massillon Recreation Center
505 Erie Street North
Massillon, OH 44646

Located in block of Rte 21, Erie St, and Cherry St. Next to Great Escape Movie Theater.  Go South on Amherst, West on Cherry, South on Erie.  It takes between 10 and 15 minutes to get there from JMMS.

Doors open at 8:00 AM. Please be inside the facility no later than 8:20.  Be dressed in uniform (purple jersey) and ready for on-court warm-ups at 8:40.  Also bring yellow jersey, as we will have girls that need to change into it.  The first serve of the first match will start promptly at 9:00.

They will have a nice concession stand with lunch offerings.  You can also pack a lunch and bring snacks, but no outside coolers are permitted in the facility.  Bring water bottle(s).

They have bleachers in the gym. Parents should not bring chairs.  There will be a team camping area. Do not leave valuables in the camping area!

Expect to be there until 5:00 PM, but we will likely be done earlier.

Our next practice is Tuesday March 21 from 6:00 to 8:00 at Strausser Elementary.

Snow Day: No Practice!

Due to today's snow day, we will not have practice tonight!  Enjoy the night off! 

We will get the tournament information sheet to you this week!

Tournament Results: Elite Sports

JVBC played in its second tournament today at Elite Sports Ohio.

Unfortunately, a team had to drop out somewhat last minute and we played in a 3 team pool in pool play.  That means that we played matches that were best out of 5 instead of best out of 3 during the morning.

We started out playing Steel Valley.  Our girls came out strong with some great serves!  Marina, Emma, Kaylee, and Kara all had long streaks of serves without missing!  The girls won 25-6, 25-12, and 25-9!

Next we played Pittsburgh Elite, who looked very good!  We didn't quite have it during this match.  The girls weren't stringing off serves as much and seemed a bit confused while playing.  We lost in 3.

Next we had a break and switched up our jerseys to get some momentum back!  Also, Sam and Emma got certified as scorekeeper and second referee during our ref session!  They did great!  We were also really excited to see former JVBC players Stephanie (about to graduate high school) and Laura (about to graduate college) at the tournament!

We came in 2nd in our pool so we were placed into the Gold bracket.  We played in the quarterfinal against Elite.  We were excited to play them because Sophia and Alana, both also from Jackson, are on that team!

The match against Elite was really close and well played.  Both teams were so even, it was a real nail biter!  We ended up losing 24-26 and 23-25 but we were so happy with how the girls played!  They played much better than they did against Pittsburgh Elite and they're really coming along!

Great job today girls!

Upcoming Tournament: Elite Sports

JVBC is playing in its second tournament this Saturday!  This is the information we handed out at practice on Tuesday.

Elite Sports Ohio
11035 Cleveland Ave.
Uniontown, OH 44685

It is just under a 20 minute drive from JMMS.  The Elite Sports facility is on the west side of the road and is the building on the north.  There is parking available at the front, side, and back of the building.

The facility doors open at 7:00.  PLEASE BE INSIDE THE BUILDING BY 7:20.  Girls should immediately be ready to play (knee pads, shoes, etc.)  No jewelry is allowed.  Bring both jerseys; wear purple.  On-court warm-ups begin at 7:40.  The first match begins at 8:00 sharp.

NO coolers in or outside the facility.  Do not bring chairs.  There is bleacher seating.  There is also no camping area, so limit personal items brought in to the building.

There will be a full breakfast and lunch menu on site.  You can buy snacks there as well.

They usually sell nice tournament souvenir shirts - buy them early while all sizes are available.

We'll play three pool matches and at least one tournament match.  We'll also ref and sit at least one match.  Matches are best two out of three sets.  First two sets are to 25, third set is to 15 (win by 2 points).  Plan to be there until 4 or 5 pm, but we may be done earlier.

Let us know if you have questions!