Jets win 3-0 against a much improved Eastbourne 2

The Jets travelled away with a full a squad to play against a much improved Eastbourne team. Eastbourne had a different setter and a couple of stronger hitters than when they played them at the start of the season. The Jets started strongly with Kishan and Iain hitting well through the outside, Dom and Josh through the middle, Martin setting and Matt Wilkes opposite. With very few errors, strong serving and great mobility back court the Jets won the first set 25-10. With Matt Lay replacing Dom and Bernard on for Iain the Jets started the set strongly, but with far more serving errors and simple mistakes Eastbourne managed 20 points before Jets closed the set out. Despite warnings from their coach the Jets started the third set poorly making way to many errors and not moving well enough in back court. Dom had replaced Josh through the middle and Iain was playing opposite for Matt Wilkes and they we also missing Matt's organisational skills with Eastbourne moving in to a 9 - 2 lead. Following  strong words in a time out the Jets gradually pulled the lead back with much improved blocking, less mistakes and some great back court movement. Once the Jets got the score back to 14 - 14 the set never looked in any doubt and they ran out 25 - 18 winners. Bernard secured his fourth MVP and it was a great all round performance. Dan had another strong game as Libero, Martin covered a lot of court, both Matt L and Josh nailed some great middle hits and it was good to see Dom return to some form. A relatively early finish meant there was enough time to hit the Market Dinner on the way home.