Sunday, August 26, 2012

Varsity McDonald Invitational Tournament


Pinedale Volleyball had a great weekend!  Our freshman team took 3rd place in Cody!  I was really happy to see that they got third place.  Jennifer Bockman is our new freshman coach and she has been doing an outstanding job with our freshman team!  Our JV and Varsity teams were in Riverton playing in the McDonald Invitational Tournament.  I was really happy with both JV and Varsity and how they played! 

Varsity
On Friday was pool play and we came out a little nervous and we split with Thermopolis.  As the day went on we continued to split with Wright, Tongue River, and Riverton.  When we came up against Sheridan, we did come out strong and won both of those matches.  At the end of the day, that put us in a three-way tie with Riverton and Sheridan for 1st place.  Because of points, we came in third place going into bracket play.  On Saturday, we played Big Horn and beat them in two games.  25-21 and 25-19.  It was single elimination and we played Cody next.  Cody is  a very competitive and tall team and they have always been that way.  We were ahead by 10 at one point, and then we made some errors and they came back and won 25-23.  The second game our girls came out strong and fighting and we fought with them all the way to the end. We lost 25-22.  This was a great learning game for us.  We missed several serves in the second game and had some rotation calls against us.  My girls have learned that we can’t miss serves especially when it is a tight match.  I was very proud of the girls and the way they played both days!  I threw a couple of different line-ups and they all handled it very well.  They have improved a lot from the first game to the last game.  I love this first tournament because we learn so much, both the players and the coaches.  We have our first home game on Thursday, and we are really excited!  I hope a lot of people will come out and support our volleyball team! 

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