So you played this weekend, how did you do? - Page 3

cheetah · 10-03-2006, 11:40 AM

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Originally Posted by kvb

Cheetah and I played 2's. We barely made the playoffs. Neither of us was 100% that day, but we kept a scrappy attitude. Somehow we managed to win our last 2 games of the day to get to a Play In. Then we won the Play In game, so we made it to the Playoffs. Then we somehow pulled it out of our A*& and won the semifinals. We lost in the finals to a very deserving pair. We had a fun day

We each got a new volleyball and cool-looking Harley-like T-shirt

It was awesome!!! What a way to end the outdoor tourney season

Thanks for hanging in there with me

KVB, have you took your new ball out of the box yet? Eric and I have been peppering in the house with it....lol!!!

BHitterDPasser · 10-16-2006, 10:53 AM

I played alright... But that didn't matter. Got to participate in OuttaTown's Rocky Point Tournament. Had a blast, met some great people, got a little bit of a tan and can't wait to see pics.

Next tourney is April 21st. Be there!!!

Outta Town · 10-16-2006, 09:36 PM

Played with a few friends on the beach.

320 to be exact.

Most fun I've had in a while, especially since my east coast and SD friends showed up to play.

Air Diney · 10-16-2006, 10:02 PM

Mexico ROCKS! Haven't had that much fun in a while!! Gotta love good friends, good times, great volleyball!

mycena · 10-17-2006, 09:11 AM

Yeah I think I may have been one of those 320 people who played down in Mexico too. It was a great time and we even won a couple of games. In fact, we beat the NY crew. hahaha!

Seriously the resort was gorgeous, courts were awesome, people amazing, and good times a plenty. I'm sure the proof will be in the pictures.

coachmanzi · 10-17-2006, 10:55 AM

I think BhitterDpasser was pretty bored this weekend...

NewEnglandRT · 10-18-2006, 12:31 AM

Yeah..... volley in Mexico is AOK! Had an absolute blast!!! It's a shame we won't be able to practice much up here in CT. I'll be down again, don't know which one.... but I'll be there.

Maybe next time RV it!

For all you fools on the board who though, eh, it can't be that much fun or it's too expensive. Don't kid yourselves it's an awesome experience!

Oh, and I played like garbage... but it didn't matter it was a blast anyway!

DougHillman · 04:21 PM

Tournament Report: USAV Great Lakes Region Pre-Season Tricks or Treats Tourney - October 28th, 2006

Being a very early pre-season tourney, there were only 6 men's teams in attendance at this event. (A 7th pulled out at the last minute.) There were no women's teams signed up. Due to the low number of entries, the tournament location was moved from the Straight Down Sports Center in North Aurora to Palos Courts in Palos Heights, IL.

The teams ran the gamut from "B" to "A" level. Teams in attendance were (in order of pool play finish):

Chicago Coast (an amalgam of their North & South teams, I believe)
Impulse (Scrubz VBC)
Bada Bing
Super Troopers
Scrubz Blue (Scrubz VBC)
Scrubz Red (Scrubz VBC)

Chicago Coast won the tournament after going undefeated in pool play with a record of 15 - 0 (3 games to 21 vs. each team). They defeated Super Troopers in the first round of the playoff and Bada Bing in the finals.

My team (Impulse) took second in pool play with a record of 10 - 5, losing all 3 very tight games to Coast, and dropping 1 each against Bada Bing & our club's "BB" team (Scrubz Blue) as we messed with our lineup to give some guys a rest. Not bad for not having either of our real middles in attendance. One of my middles for most of the day is 5' 10" and the other is 5' 9". For one of the matches we had a 5' 8" guy hitting middle.

Due to time constraints (to be rectified in future tourneys) the playoffs were single games to 25. We hit a flat spot and Bada Bing played tough in our playoff match. They jumped out to a pretty sizable lead in the middle of our game. We came back strong at the end and had brought the score to 23 - 22 before a greedy mistake stopped our run. Bada Bing ended up winning 25 - 23. They went on to play pretty tough in the finals, but Coast was unstoppable all day long despite losing a player to an ankle injury in the very first game of the day. (Hell, nearly the very first PLAY of the day.)

Overall, this was a pretty fun pre-season tourney. It was nice to get on the court vs. some other teams than just the rest of our club. It'll be even nicer at the next tourney on the 11th of November when I've got at least one of my actual middle hitters back on the court.

No matter how skilled you may be, when you're an outside filling in at middle and the other team's middles are 6 - 8 inches taller than you, it's gonna be a long day for your whole team.

I'd like to think that I did a pretty good job of using the appropriate hitter and getting guys solo as much as possible, but there's only so much that can be accomplished when you're height deprived at this level.

mycena · 11-03-2006, 09:28 AM

Does Thursday count as the weekend?? Because we played last night. Didn't do a good job at winning but we did do a good job playing. Just the second week playing running our 4-2 from the right side. And all three games were really close and we were playing the team with the best record in the league. I wasn't having the best setting night of my life either. But since I AM NOT A SETTER, it doesn't bother me.

DougHillman · 05:35 PM

Tournament Report Great Lakes Region: Men's pre-season at Straight Down Sports in North Aurora, IL 11/11/06

Terrible tournament for us. It was just one of those weekends where everyone is off and you end up being dragged down to the level of lower competition. At that point, anything can happen. All day long, our passing was just sloppy enough that we could never really establish the middle. I was not often able to get my hitters into 1 on 1 situations and we were forced away from running a high tempo offense. Playing against "A" level competition, that's not gonna get it done. In our 5 team pool, we went 2 - 6 finishing last on points. Two of those losses were to the eventual tourney winner, played at the end of the day when we were already out of the playoffs and with my best passer sitting out due to a building migraine. It's doubtful that we could have beaten them at our best, but down a player, demoralized, and with the other team playing loose & confident, we stood no chance. Our other 4 losses were extrememly frustrating though. 25-23, 25-23, 28-26, and then a 25-20 loss after we were eliminated from the playoffs.

I will take a 25-10 whipping any day over a 25-23 loss. There's no getting around being soundly beaten by a team which truly outclasses you. You take your thrashing and accept it. But a 25-23 game is a game that you coulda won. And if you coulda won, you shoulda won.

The tournament was won by Ace Fire, a team which drove in from Indiana. I didn't get a chance to talk with any of them, but I believe that they're registering as an A team in the Hoosier Region. If so, they're a pretty damn high A team.

(I'da maybe placed them as a AA team. It's tough when you're right at that point where you're almost too strong for one level but you're not gonna have alot of success in the next higher level.) They played against Chicago Coast in the finals, the team which won our tournament a few weeks ago. Coast played well, but Ace Fire handled them pretty easily. I think it was the uniforms.

Maybe that was our problem. Our new uni's were sitting at home on the club director's floor.

Coupla weeks off for us now I think. One of my middles is gonna play with our club's Blue team this weekend, but the rest of us are not playing again until the 3rd of December. My jammed thumb really needs the time to heal.