Match day two for Worthing Volleyball Club in the National League saw a depleted squad travel to Southampton, to play City of Bristol and Southampton Volleyball club. Amy, Gemma and Agata were missing leaving Trees, Em, Sabrina, Chantelle and Sintija to man up and play all of both games with Robyn and Mel sharing the setting. Luckily Em insisted on leaving 3 hours before the warm up as Sintija sent them on a long scenic tour of Southampton twice!
Up first were City of Bristol, Worthing started brightly with good movement back court and a nice first ball in. Giving Robyn the option to use Sintija through opposite and open up the middle for some big hits from Em and Sabrina. They closed the first set as comfortable winners 25-10.
Up first were City of Bristol, Worthing started brightly with good movement back court and a nice first ball in. Giving Robyn the option to use Sintija through opposite and open up the middle for some big hits from Em and Sabrina. They closed the first set as comfortable winners 25-10.
Set two saw Mel come on for Robyn. Bristol started better and were very effective recycling the ball and keeping the rally alive. Worthing though had taken their foot off the gas making a number of serving errors and a bad first ball in was dragging Mel all over the court. Em's serving and leadership helped pull it back to 17-17 but again Bristol edged ahead and even a tasty stuff block by Sintija couldn't turn the momentum back in Worthing's favour.
The final two sets saw Worthing win 25-12 and 25-13 with strong serving and hitting all round. It must have been a tough call to pick an MVP but Sintija was the chosen one.
Southampton laid on a good lunch with the pizza disappearing fast and nice cupcakes (although not as tasty as the ginger cake from last week). Game two saw Worthing take on Southampton who had beaten Bristol 3-0 in the middle match.
A tight first set saw us trading points early on with Southampton slowly edging in front to be leading 22 - 17 when Chantelle stepped up to serve the game out 22 - 25.
More impressive serving this time from Sabrina gave WVC a strong start and they were leading 8 - 2 after her serve run of 6 points mixing her powerful float with a cheeky short serve. Sintija and Em helped Brinee out with some big blocks and intelligent hitting front court and the cry of "the roof is on fire" was ringing throughout the hall accompanied by Craig setting the beat on his makeshift drum! They ended the set 25-13 winners.
The final set had Worthing starting slowly giving control of the set to Southampton, but good back court positioning and Robyn making a game changing pick up that Southampton were already celebrating changed the momentum of the game and Worthing close out the game 3-0 winners. Consistent hitting along with good movement back court meant Trees took the second MVP of the day.
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| Who said Brinee couldn't jump?! |
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Southampton laid on a good lunch with the pizza disappearing fast and nice cupcakes (although not as tasty as the ginger cake from last week). Game two saw Worthing take on Southampton who had beaten Bristol 3-0 in the middle match.
A tight first set saw us trading points early on with Southampton slowly edging in front to be leading 22 - 17 when Chantelle stepped up to serve the game out 22 - 25.
More impressive serving this time from Sabrina gave WVC a strong start and they were leading 8 - 2 after her serve run of 6 points mixing her powerful float with a cheeky short serve. Sintija and Em helped Brinee out with some big blocks and intelligent hitting front court and the cry of "the roof is on fire" was ringing throughout the hall accompanied by Craig setting the beat on his makeshift drum! They ended the set 25-13 winners.
The final set had Worthing starting slowly giving control of the set to Southampton, but good back court positioning and Robyn making a game changing pick up that Southampton were already celebrating changed the momentum of the game and Worthing close out the game 3-0 winners. Consistent hitting along with good movement back court meant Trees took the second MVP of the day.
Thanks to the travelling supporters including Em's folks and Chantelle, Caz and Craig, Mark and Zack and our team statistician Damo.
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