Calumet's perfect record in pool play in tournaments in 2009 ended tonight with an opening set loss to Covenant Classical in the third pool play match this afternoon. We were told by the tournament organizer that they would be our toughest competition in our pool, and he was correct. However, we could have played better and won that game.
Covenant's game was marked by solid blocking. Their defense was good and their hitting was good, but the blocking was very good. And then we played like we were surprised that anyone would block any of our hits, in the first game, especially. They also played nearly error free volleyball in that game. We did jump out to a 7-3 lead in that game with a little blocking of our own and nice hits by Faith and Jessi. Then they began to dink us and they also get those blocks going, and all of a sudden they were leading, 12-10. Taylor then got two straight hits and then a dink kill to put us back ahead. Some errors by our girls and two blocks by Covenant Classical put them back in front, 16-14. And then it was back and forth until it was tied at 22. Covenant got two on errors, then after a kill by taylor to make it 24-23, Ally mishhit her serve, giving game one to Covenant, 25-23
Game two picked up where game left off. Mainly because of our errors and their blcoking, they took the lead at 8-5. A block by Kara and a kill by Taylor got Calumet going, as they went on a 12-1 run to go up 17-9. They increased in a little more as the game wore on, and appropriatley finished with an ace by Ally and the Patriots had game two 25-15. This was important, as head to head point scores would determine who finished first in our pool.
I'm not going to go into much detail about the later game against Redeemer. Suffice it to say, we didn't play well in game one and only won 25-20. Game two was a little different, as Calumet led 10-2 at one point and 21-9. From there each team scored four, and the final was 25-15.
As of this writing, we don't know who we play. I'll let you know as soon as I do.
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