Sunday, September 9, 2012

Big Piney and Rawlins Tournament - Varsity

Big Piney

This was a great win for us!  The girls needed it!  I felt like the girls played hard and played as a team.  They had confidence in themselves and each other.  We had three girls that served 100%; Kyla Taylor, Taylor Connors, and Teerstyn Johnson.  Kyla came in and did a great job for us.  This was her first time in a varsity match and her serves were very consistent and hard.  I was very proud of her.  Bekah Knapp had 5 aces, Heidi Feck had 3 aces, and Tayln Costello had 2 aces.  As far as hitting, Vashti had a great hitting game; she had 15 kills.  Teerstyn had a great hitting game too with 9 kills; both girls came out swinging hard.  Taylor Connors had a great defense game and passing game.  She had 13 digs and her passes were merely perfect.   Overall, this game was a total team effort on and off the bench.  Everybody on my bench got into the game and contributed somehow.  Way to go girls!!

Big Piney    vs   Pinedale
25           27
17           25
18           25


Rawlins Tournament

This is always a great tournament to go to because you get to see all 3A teams.  On Friday, my girls played really well.  We were a little slow to start, but we finished strong!  We played Wheatland first, and we lost both games to them.  The girls were playing hard, but we missed some important serves towards the end.  Our next game was Worland.  We beat Worland and the girls played really well.  The first game was pretty close, but as we came out the 2nd game we dominated from the very beginning.  One of out team goals for this game was to have a 90% or better in serving as a team and we were able to accomplish this in this game and the game against Cody.  After Worland we played Cody.  This was a very exciting and intense game!  We played Cody in Riverton and barely lost to them.  They girls knew they could beat Cody.  The first game was a nail -biter.  We were behind and we came back and lost by 1.  After the first game, when my girls came into the huddle you could tell they were going to win the next game; there was no question about it, they were determined.  They played hard to the end and we pulled out a win.  This was the first time Pinedale beat Cody in volleyball for a very long time.  We actually tied for 2nd place in our pool play, but because of our lost to Wheatland we came in 3rd .  As a result, that meant we were in the Silver bracket. 
            Saturday we came out playing New Castle.  This was a game we should of won, but had a lot of  errors.  We took them in three games and lost the last game by 3.  This was a tough lost for us.  The last team that we played in this tournament was Lander.  We lost to them in two.  The first game was a very close game, and we lost by 2.  The 2nd game was not so close.  We play Lander on Tuesday, and we are hoping to have a different outcome with them. 
            Overall, we learned a lot from this tournament.  We have the potential to play with all these teams and come out with a lot of wins.  We just need to fine-tune some things and really focus on making fewer errors as a team.  I’m excited for Tuesday; our goals are to come out strong, and come out swinging. 




Wheatland   VS   Pinedale
21   18
22   21

Worland  VS  Pinedale
      18        21
14        21

Cody  VS   Pinedale 
21   20
18   21
New Castle  VS  Pinedale
21  14
18  21
15  12

Lander   VS   Pinedale
22   20
21  16

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