Vipers Beat Storrington 3 - 0 - Report from Mark....

Vipers took on a new team to them in Storrington on Sunday. It proved to be competitive game as have all the games to date been in what is probably the strongest Sussex league in several years.

 Vipers started set 1 with Jimmy and Mickey playing as passers hitters, Andy C and Paul (in for the unavailable Nigel) through the middle, Damien opposite, Andy L setting and Richard libero.

 Vipers started well with strong defence and serve receive allowing Andy L to spread the attack and use our full hitting power. Storrington were fighting well in defence but were struggling to attack against a strong Vipers block. A few service runs from Jimmy and Damien allowed a gap to open and Vipers won the set convincingly. The team also adapted well when looking at different options Dom came on for Andy L to play opposite with Damien changing to set.

 Set 2 started with same line up and went to a similar pattern until mid way through the set when an injury to Matt L who had come into the game for Paul disrupted the team slightly and a few to many unforced errors crept in and allowed Storrington to come back into the game. Dom again came into play opposite with Damien switching to setting and the team managed to step back up and win comfortably again.

 Set 3 saw Dom start on through the middle with Paul dropping to the bench with a view to coming on as a passer hitter. Vipers started set 3 slowly with unforced errors again creeping in and combined with Storrington playing there best volleyball of the game was closely fought with Storrington leading at times. Paul came in for Mickey and did well in a new role. The team did re-group well and managed to up the performance and again ran out comfortable winners.

 Overall it was a good performance against a good Storrington team, but did highlight a few areas to work on in training over the next few weeks.

 Matt Lay and Dom did well in their first of hopefully many appearances for the Vipers and it has been very good to see them progress well this year. MVP went to Andy Crockett for his well deserved hitting display. Next game is a crucial one against Adur away at 4pm on the 2nd Dec and if anyone is free to come and support it would be great.