Oh La La

We got a win! We won yesterday in 5 with the final game's score being 15-13. It was a very eventful game. I guess we should have won in 3, but we always get close and then don't pull out the win. After this tough match I am hoping that we have learned to figure out how to win. Sometimes its a concept people are foreign to. When the game gets tough they don't know what to do because they don't know how to win. I have encountered this situation several times in the past. I am hoping that we get it out of our system and get used to this whole winning thing.
The cool thing about our team is we have a lot of versatility. If someone is having an off game we have plenty of players who can sub in and do a good job. But the hard part is, it would just be easier for the starter to play well (ha ha).
I have been playing okay. I haven't hit my strides yet, but I'm not playing bad. Surprisingly, I'm not passing well. That always used to be a strong point in my game and it has gone bad. So that is pretty frustrating. I know I can better, I'm just not. But, I know it will turn around.

So the eventful game. The game started with them giving us this Cactus drink in a glass bottle with 20% alcohol. Yeah that was their gift to us. Back in the states gifts were socks, wristbands, or raisins. Not here, its alcohol! So yeah game started great! Then about midway through the match the other team started yelling through the net. Things got heated. They blocked me on one play and their middle was standing there screaming at me. Yeah I was always told what goes around comes around.
(Major event entrance)
So its the 5th set, about midway through. I go up and smash this ball line. One of my hardest hits. I pegged this guy in the face. I just saw it out of the corner of my eye and so I turned and started cheering because I never hit people in the face. My whole team was cheering too. It was exciting. Then, Scott yells, "everyone shut up!" I look back and see this guy on his back holding his face with half his team around him and the other half yelling at us through the net. As it turns out, the guy ended up having a bloody nose and a black eye. I remember looking at the bench and seeing this poor guy with a bag of ice on his face and he had the blank stare of person who just had a concussion. Yeah, things got real heated after that.
One fight almost broke out, more smack talking than should be legal, several yellow cards almost handed out (1 actually was, but it was at the beginning of the match) and a lot of unhappy people.
And so, the game ended with us being down 12-13, we just sided out and needed this point badly. After several diving plays, amazing saves and clutch blocks/kills we scored 3 points and won.

All in a days work.