JV Riverton Tournament

WOW... what a great weekend!  The JV girls came to play and had something to prove to everyone that they were a team that would compete.  We took second in our pool on Friday and never lost to a team both games the only two losses were splits meaning that they at least 1 out of 2.  We played some tough competition and I was so proud of the girls for improving every single game and learning from their mistakes.  On Saturday we played Riverton for another game, but it didn't count for pool or bracket play.  It was a rough one to start with, but the girls proved that they can come back after a hard loss to play.  That afternoon bracket play started, we had a bye since we were 2nd in our pool then played Lander to go the Semi-finals.  We beat Lander in 2 games and moved on to play Riverton who had beat us good earlier that day.  I am so proud for the way the girls came out with something to prove that the morning team was not the normal Pinedale volleyball and came out fighting. After some long rallies and battles and in 3 games we BEAT Riverton to move on to the Championship.  We met Rock Springs in the Championship and gave them some great battles, but ending up losing in two.  Rock Springs is a great fundamental team and it was a good challenge for us.  I couldn't be happier for how the girls came together and played as team! Keep improving every day girls!
Scores
Pool Play:     
Pinedale vs Lander          Pinedale vs Rock Springs                 Pinedale vs Big Horn         Pinedale vs Wright
24, 25         14, 26               25, 21          23, 25                               25, 25        20, 12                25, 25       17, 17

Pinedale vs Riverton
19, 13          25, 25

Tournment:
Pinedale vs Lander          Pinedale vs Riverton                 Pinedale vs Rock Springs
25, 25        18, 18              25,15, 15      22,25,12                   19,19     25, 25

McDonald's Tournament, Riverton

Varsity
We had a fantastic start to our volleyball season. The girls came out playing hard and they played really well as a team! All of the girls gave 100% and it showed! I was really impressed with them! One of our goals is to play 100% in every game we play, and they did this! We had one rough game, but they came out in the second game and played a lot better! We won all of our pool play games and the first game in bracket play. Then we lost in the semi-finals to Wright. I was very impressed with all their effort! We played well and had a lot of fun!! Way to go girls!!!
Pool Play
Pinedale Vs Tongue River
25 23
25 10
Pinedale Vs. Riverton 2
25 18
25 14
Pinedale Vs Big Horn
25 23
25 19
Pinedale Vs Thermop
25 10
25 23
Bracket Play
Pinedale Vs Tongue River
25 23
25 14
Pinedale Vs Wright
11 25
15 25

Freshman Cody Tournament

The Freshmen did very well in Cody. In pool play they beat Cody and Jackson and split with Lander, which earned them a chance to play for first place in the tournament against Worland. They played hard, but they got 2nd place. Some of the high points were Heidi Feck's 15 aces for the day in serving, Kassidy William's 8 kills for a hitting percentage of .227, and the bench players' ability to contribute when they entered the game. Next week they will play Mt. View on Thursday.

1st Week of Two-a-Days!

What a long, but wonderful week!  All the girls worked really hard!!  As a coaching staff we are really impressed with the progress they are making in their passing and serving!  We hope to get even better this week!!  I have been impressed with my upperclassman and how they are taking the newly freshman in!  They have been such great examples to them, thank you girls!!  I am also impressed with my freshman, they are working SO hard!  I know it's a lot more work than middle school, but you guys are doing GREAT!! Keep up the good work!!  Thanks to my wonderful managers, they are working so hard trying to get all the paperwork in, uniforms checked out, and getting me organized!  You guys ROCK!!  Thanks for a great first week!!

Summer 2011

I'm getting way excited for volleyball season!  We have camps, team camps, and lots more stuff planned for this summer!  More info will come soon!!  Please check back!! 

Regionals

Cody  25 - 21, 25 - 11, 25 - 18
Cody is a tough team that has two key hitters.  The first game we were able to take them out of the equation, but we still came up with the lost.
My team passed well and hit the ball well in this game.  Brooke had 4 kills, 16 digs. Patience had 7 kills, 5 digs, and 2 aces. Erin had 6 kills, 7 digs, 3 stuff blocks. Christina had 4 kills.  Jalin had 20 assist and one ace.  The second and third game we had a hard time passing.  Kristy Ann had a stuff block. 

Worland  vs Pinedale 25 - 15, 25 - 16. 26 - 24

Because we lost to Cody, we had to play Worland who lost to Mt. View earlier.  This game was the game that the loser goes home.  I was so proud of my girls, they came out playing tough and they played hard all three games!!  This was a great win for them!!  We were hitting a lot more, our passes were a lot better.  Brooke had 9 kills, 23 digs, and one block.  Patience had 9 kills, 4 digs, 5 stuff blocks.  Erin had 9 kills, 7 digs, and 4 aces.  Tayln had 4 aces and 6 digs.  Taylor had 19 digs.  Jalin had 31 assists.  Loni had 4 kills and Steph and Christina both had 2 kills.  Brielle had 11 digs.  My team played great defense and served hard to Worland!!  Because we won we got to play the next morning against Jackson.  I felt really good about playing Jackson.  We beat them earlier in the season, and we just lost to them in 5.  I knew we could do it!!

Jackson 25 - 17, 29 (us) - 27, 25 - 18, and 25 - 10

The first game the girls came out playing hard.  We struggled for a little bit, but we didn't give up.  The second game we were a head most of the game.  Then they caught up to us in the last points and it was close.  My girls never gave up and took the win!!  They played hard and they wanted it!  The last two games our passing was off and we weren't moving on defense like we should of.  They have some big hitters and they hurt us.  Brooke had a good game, she kept swinging and passing well.  She had 13 kills and 18 digs.  They were all over Patience but she still had 9 kills and 6 digs.  Christina had 8 kills, 4 digs, and one dig.  Erin and Tayln both contibuted with an ace. Loni and Stephanie both had one kill. 

This was a hard lost.  Because we lost, we were not going to state.  Even though we did not make our goal this year, I'm still proud of each and everyone of them!!  They are the best group of girls, and I love coaching them.  They will just get better and better through pre-season and through the summer.  These girls are motivated to get in the gym and work hard at their skills so they can become better!    

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Jackson - Varisty in Jackson

We played Jackson on Thursday!  It was a great game and  a lot of people came to support us!!  However we lost but they fought till the end!  The scores were
Jackson     Pinedale
25              21
25              20

12              25
20              25
15              10

We knew that Jackson was going to be tough.  It was their homecoming and senior night.  Their emotions were going!  The first two games were close but we couldn't quite get ahead.  The third game my girls came out playing and playing hard!  We started out in another rotation and it helped!  The fourth game they played well!  The last game they came out with a 7 -0 lead on us and it is very hard to come back and win, especially when you are only going to 15.  By losing this game, it put us into third place going into Regionals and we will be playing Cody.  Cody took 2nd place in their conference.  Cody will be tough!  We played them before and they won, but we took them four games.  They are beatable!!  We have four practices and then off to Regionals!!  Stats - Brooke had 17 kills, 10 digs, two aces, one stuff block.  Patience had 12 kills, 6 digs, four aces, and five stuff blocks.  Patience had a great game all around!!  Erin had 10 kills, 3 aces, 7 digs, and 4 stuff blocks.  Christina had 7 kills and 7 digs.   Jalin had 43 assist, 5 digs, one ace, and 2 blocks.  Taylin had 9 digs and one ace, Brielle had 8 digs.  Kristy Ann had 2 kills and one block.