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
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