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Just another minion!
Location
Borrego Springs Ca.
I know this means about nothing to most of you :D
But my girls have been working thier arse off in thier quest for a League Championship!
(and so have I, thus making it hard to get much wrench or wheel time, bee oches!)
So.....
I'm going to post up our scores after each match here.
You can all ignore it if nesc.!!!! :moon:
Last night we started our quest against Lutheran HS.
Lutheran upset our arch rivals last year in the playoffs (Julian HS)
We anticipated a real tough match.....
We won
25-7 25-13 and 25-5. (an old fashion ass whuppin')
Season record so far......1 and 0
Rick R
 
Congrats on the "W"!
What team are your girls on and what league?
 
Yeah man, Congrats on the win. I got a CIF championship ring when I played in high school. Hope you and your girls do the same.
Cant wait to hear about the next win.
 
Just got back from our second match of the season.
We Won!
25-22
25-10
26-24
That last game was a barn burner. Went on and on and on....we thaught we had it won but a 'net' call was made against us....
But, we still managed to regain serve and finish them off.
We played Mountain Empire.
Season recored;
2-0!
I gotta' go now, heading out to Devil's Canyon with Ryan and few others!
V-Ball and 4X......life doesn't get any bettor that this!:D
Rick R
 
Okay, I knew this one was going to be a challenge, we were going up against one of the pre-season picks for the State Championship.
I wanted my girls to see what 'real' V-Ball looks like :D
We lost...that was no suprise, but what was a suprise was
how well my girls did!
18-25
12-25 (momentary lapse of reason!)
18-25
I know the scores don't look so good, but we challenged them at all
points of the game. They couldn't dominate in any perticular disipline.
Our defense matched thiers, no question.
Our service, although not on par with thiers, was still exceptional.
They took us on offense. We had no answers for all they had. What can I say?
I am incredably proud of the team!
Tomarrow....another top notch school. Heck we can only learn from playing the best!
Rick R
 
Heavy sighhhhhh.....don't know what got into my girls. :dunno:
We scored more often then we did yesterday.....but we played like crap!
We didn't have 'it' tonight.
Couldn't challenge them on service....why? :dunno:
We couldn't defend thier middle attack....why? :dunno:
My setter just couldn't make consistant sets....why? :dunno:
Oh well.....they ( Christian HS) are not in our league or division. So the
loss won't hurt us....it just hurts to lose like that.
Maybe.....ah...I'll just work on it tomarrow....
Rick R
 
We needed a match like the one we had today!
25-6
25-8
25-7
We played the home match against Lutheran. My girls could do no wrong.
It got the point that my servers missed just to exstend the match (Some people might not like the idea of deliberate misses, but even the other team deserved some extra playing time, they drove two hours to play us!)

Interesting side note;
The Union-Tribune (SD's news paper) listed the top three teams in each division in todays paper...all but division 5. They only listed Tri-City Christian as the no.1 team but no 2 or 3.
I am trying to be careful not to overestimate our team but, we could be ranked no.2 right now. Our main competition for that spot has been struggling recently and might have lost it to us. :dunno:
Our only losses were to the no.1 ranked team and another team that is neither in our league or division.
The rankings as I see it;
1. Tri City
2. Calvin Christian or us
3. as above
4. Escondido Adventist
5. Julian.

It will be interesting to check this post at the end of the season to see how accurate it is.
Rick R
 
Okay...I can honestly say that we should be ranked #2 now.
Calvin is big time stuggling....against bigger schools and against mutual opponents..
But, in the bigger picture there is no difference between #2 and #3. They would meet
in the playoffs in the semi-finals. #4 would meet #1. and nobody wants to play
#1 prior to the championship game.....(my GAWD and I counting chickens here? We have not
even started league play yet!!)
Rick R
 
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Just got back from our first tournament of the year......
WE WON!!!!!!
So this does prove even blind monkeys find a nut every now and again!
It didn't start off so well. We went thru pool play with an even 5 and 5 record. That gave us a low seed going into elimination play.
We faced the #3 seed..and won!
It didn't get any easier, the next round we faced the #1 seed...and won.
Then the #2 seed...and won.
We took out the top three seeds during elimination play!
We then faced the #4 seed in the championship match...best 2 of three.
We lost.....the first game....then took a nice lead early in the second game and won. On to the final game, play to 15 and win by two....
We were tired and didn't want to play any bonus points...we won 15-8.
and the trophy was ours!!!
I'm beat...got up at 4:30am and spent the day stressing...I need some beer!
Rick R
 
Well boyz...another W for the team.
We played our away game against Mt. Empire last night.
25-16
25-7
25-13
We played without one of my starters due to injury (and she WAS NOT happy about missing a start.) Her replacement played very well for someone tossed in with only one day of rotation practice prior to the match.
Next tuesday we start league play....wish us luck!
Coach Rethoret
 
Hmmm...I'm sitting here checking posts and congratulating Robert on his
1000th post, when I started thinking about Tuesday....first league game....against probably our toughest competion for the title. Damn....

You know I started coaching this team from scratch seven years ago. None of us had a clue about how to play this game.
It was two full seasons before we managed our first match win!
(Sept. 24th against Mountain Empire @ 4:32pm '02. :D)
And we have managed to improve every season up to this point...
can we pull this one out? The girls have worked hard enough to earn a Championship (or have they :dunno:).....
I'll keep you all posted....!!:wave:
Rick R
 
YA HOOOOOOO!
First league match....first league win.
25-16
25-6
16-25 (The girls just decided not to play this game for some reason!)
25-15
That second game was perfection. The best I have ever seen my team play.
NO unforced errors. That is a first.
That third game....I don't know what happened....everyone made one mistake after another. Come to think of it, the last time my girls played great ball, the next day they played horrable....I wonder what that means? :dunno:
But what the heck, we won :D
Next match is thursday...I'll keep you all posted....
Rick R
 
League game #2...league win #2!
We played West Shores HS today.
The toughest team we have faced in some time.
25-16
25-22
25-15
Although the score might not show it, West Shores played tough. They just had way too many errors. Rotation errors cost them at least six points (thats a shit load of rotation mistakes.) They tried to muscle serve us...fine...go ahead...we can defend most any serves, but you put your own team at risk for service errors...they lost a boatload of points to missed serves. :D
We fell behind in two of the three games...by as many as six points.
My girls are looking more like champions each match!
Next match is against Tri City Christian....we will get stomped but we have a few tricks up our sleaves for them this time....after Tri City....we play our arch rivals...Julian!
I'll keep you posted
Rick R
 
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