Select Team Match #3 – Day 2 vs. Northern California Select White


Hey everyone…this is Scooter. The girls from the team have gone back to the hotel for lunch and I have stayed at the facility to coach with our Youth team. So, I will give a recap of the match and then have the girls write something later tonight.


The Select team came into the gym and the coaches were a little nervous about the body language of the girls. Most of them looked asleep..boy was that wrong. They came out on FIRE and played amazing volleyball. Great serving, great passing, and phenomenal hitting…and sustained it for three straight games. The crowd for them was awesome. They have a LOT of fans here. I didn’t count but there had to be at least 30 and it sure helped. Thank you to the parents, family members and friends that came and supported us! Statistically here are just a few highlights of the match:HITTING: Hannah: 14 Kills, no errors and 17 attemptsDakota: 10 Kills, 4 errors and 13 attemptsRachel: 6 Kills, 1 error and 8 attemptsPASSING:Ciara: 2.25 and 28 digs!!SERVING:Stacey had 4 aces, followed by Dakota and Dylan with 2BLOCKING:Crystal led the way with 3 blocks


YOUTH TEAM MATCH #3 – Day 2 vs. USA Gold

This match was a rematch of our first match yesterday. Many of you may be asking why we play the same team again today when we played them yesterday. The reason is because yesterday was a three team pool, which we finished. First place in the pool automatically qualified for the top 10 (which is what we did). All the 2nd and 3rd place teams played off this morning for the right to be in that same top 10. The USA Gold team which we beat on Day 1, upset a team and ended up back in our pool. The top 10 is 2 pools of 5. The winners of each pool will play in the championship on Saturday. So, our first match of the pool just happened to be against USA Gold. I’m not sure who the next match will be against just yet, but it will be at 7:30pm EST tonight. Anyway, our rematch against the USA Gold team got the result that we wanted, but not the way we wanted it. The team was very sluggish and were not mentally in the game as much as they were the previous day. They did battle though and fought hard and pulled out some very tight wins. Sets 2 and 3 we had to come back from being down late in the game to win by the scores of 25-12, 25-23, 25-23.