First Game!

Our first game was tonight! Yeah, we got to play! But, it was a tough loss. Here's how the game went down....
Set one we were up 24-22 and gave up 4 straight points to lose the match. Yeah, we had it. Second set we were never really in it. Couple bad plays, several subs and we lost our rhythm. We almost came back, but they closed the second set out. We switched line ups, and won the next two sets. They were both close, but by the end of the sets we had some breathing room and won. So 5th set. Game to 15. We kept switching points back and forth, but we were losing ground here and there and they continued to side-out. I was serving and we had the game 9-11, we were down. And they ended up siding out, and going on a small run. It was 14-9 when we finally got the ball. That is a lot of ground to cover. The final score was 15-11. It was a tough one. But, we have over 20 more games of league play. We still got a lot of games ahead of us.
In terms of my performance I played pretty good. My guess is I hit in the ball park of .200 and went 15/35 with 7 hitting errors. I passed okay. I had a lot of good passes, but there was one or two where I could have done better for sure.
I felt like the whole team played good, we just didn't.... click. More play should allow us to work out the kinks and allow the clicking to begin. Highlights of the game: Maartin had several huge blocks (I mean Huge), Scott had a block that (1st) bounced off the ground and (2nd) pretty much gave the guy a bloody nose (after) bouncing off the ground. Miehele had a hit that landed somewhere by the 10ft line. Manu hit a ball about 150 kmph. I think if it had of hit someone we might of had to get an ambulance. And Yentl and Yence both had some sets that even faked me out; they were so good. So in the end we didn't get the W, but we did have some very positive moments and a lot of good material to learn from.

So here's a sneak peak at a future blog- "10 things that are hardest getting used to in Belgium"