With a first place seed, the Sandy Gyners went to battle last night for the crown title in the Intermediate volleyball league. We had a bye the first round, then a double header to see who would be victorious. We won our first match fairly easily in 2 games. The other team had just played, but I don't think that really had a part in their defeat.
Our second match of the night was against my long time rival and friend JimmyB, and an old teammate of ours from indoor. I felt our skills outweighed theirs but we had a tough time during the match. We were trading points the first game until we finally took a big lead around 10 then never looked back. The second game, we were trading points again and ended up losing 26 to 24. I was not happy. We were missing serves, bad passes, unforced hitting errors, blah blah blah. Third game is to 21 and we used every bit of that. Again, we just weren't in sync. It had been a month since we all played together because of weather or travel arrangements. We battled our way through and in the end were victorious at 21-19.
I was crabby and my teammates knew it. They wanted me to smile because of the victory, but I was more focused on our game play. We are joining the competitive league next session so we all need to bring our A games or we are going to get spanked every week.
We didn't get a championship belt or anything, so we posed for a team picture afterward.
