Top of our game

I would have posted last night, but the headache and ringing in the ears from the three girls sitting (and singing and yelling and shrieking) behind me on the ride home prevented that. So blame them. EDIT: The three were Faith, Ally and Kara.

Last night the girls played their best game of the year so far (I think) in defeating the Quentin Road Eagles 25-13, 25-12. Don't let the score fool you. QR was not a bad team. I know the girls have defeated other teams earlier this year by about the same scores, but often it was only due to boredom that they let the opponent get that close. It was a little different last night.

We weren't sure what to expect. We knew that they had lost in a reasonably close match to Ridgewood earlier, and that they had also lost to Southside. We also had seen their JV team play very well in our tournament, beating our JV team and losing in three to Heritage in the finals. What we got was a team with a couple of talented players, but not very deep, and no match for us last night.

I won't go into too much detail about the game. But one telling thing is that from 9-9 in the first game to 14-3 in the second, Calvary outscored Quentin Road 30-7. During that stretch, the volleyball was beautiful. Great saves, perfectly placed dinks, big hits, great defense, blocking...I think that about covers it. They did fall into a stretch in the second game where the decision making wasn't great, but after that Faith scored seven straight points with that big jump serve and Calvary was comfortably ahead. One more thing: several times during the game, QR made an excellent save, but our girls calmly set the ball up again and got the point. Often a big save takes the wind out of the other team, but our girls played confidently and with precision.

EDIT: The JV fell again to QR, the team that defeated them in the semifinals of our tournament. I haven't got the score of the first game, but the second game was 27-25, QR. The JVb team also lost.

EDIT #2: Got word that the JHa team won the Southside tourney. Congrats to them!

Tuesday at 5:30 and 6:30 against Covenant in Demotte.